I am redesigning my company's website. I am not a developer, but have learned as I went along. I am ready to push out my site to a test subdomain, but I can't figure out how to publish it correctly using VS Express for Web 2013. I have multiple problems.
First, we have our own internal IIS server and I have a "site3" folder on the server ready for testing the new site. I can't use Web Deploy or Web Deploy Package. I publish using File System. This seems to sorta work, but no images load and it redirects me to a Login page that I have no intention of using. When I run the site on my local machine, everything works 100% fine - no login page and all site resources load and function perfectly.
Second, when I try to publish, there is no "Release" configuration like I see in online tutorials and MSDN, only "Debug." Is there something I'm missing in the configuration? The publishing? Am I using the wrong framework? This is my first rodeo and I am completely lost.
If anyone wants to look at my completely jacked up site, it's http://site3.tcns.net
EDIT: I'm beginning to think that it has something to do with the fact I have no clue how to configure the web.config file and the default file isn't plug-and-play for a basic website.
I have some idea as to what happened. I accidentally created an MVC solution instead of a basic website.