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This is a similar question to "How To Disable ASP.NET MVC Url routing" which hasn't been answered (I don't think the responders understood why it was needed).

I have an existing application that uses AngularJS and MVC url routing to serve the templates. I want to remove the MVC url routing as it is redundant (see comment below. we are using webApi to return data via ajax so the views/controllers are not needed).

I have removed the call to RegisterRoutes in the Global.asax.cs. There doesn't seem to be anything in the Web.config apart from a reference to System.Web.Routing so I left it.

I am using IIS Express with Visual Studio 2012.

When the application runs I get a 403.14 Forbidden error. I have enabled directory browsing. I have set the start page in the project in Visual Studio but I get a 404 despite the file definitely being there.

I have tried creating a non-mvc website and copying the contents of the web.config to my application, but this didn't work.

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if you mean by removing the .aspx on the end (www.something/home.aspx); In C#, instead of using 

response.redirect("~/home.aspx");

use 

server.transfer("~/home.aspx");
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I'm using AngularJS which has it's own routing mechanism. I just want my existing application to behave like a normal asp.net (non-mvc) website without routing (i.e. localhost/index.html will serve the index.html page) –  Silverfox May 30 '13 at 9:33
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AngularJs routing has nothing to do with ASP.Net MVC Routing.

Angular Routing:

Is used for deep-linking URLs to controllers and views (HTML partials). It watches $location.url() and tries to map the path to an existing route definition.

ASP.Net MVC Routing:

ASP.NET routing enables you to use URLs that do not have to map to specific files in a Web site. Because the URL does not have to map to a file, you can use URLs that are descriptive of the user's action and therefore are more easily understood by users.

In essence, AngularJs routing deals with client-side routing (using the location Url), whilst ASP.Net MVC deals with mapping http Urls to the appropriate controller/action in the server-side.

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Yes I know. For example, in the routing config for an Angular module we have "templateUrl: 'Customer/edit'". Normally, this would be a static file, e.g. "templateUrl: 'CustomerEdit.html'". At the moment we have an MVC CustomerController that returns a partialview. I want to remove this as it is redundant. Basically, I want a project that was created as an MVC ASP.NET website to convert back into a regular ASP.NET website. I don't want to recreate the entire project from scratch. Thanks –  Silverfox May 30 '13 at 13:59

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