Running ServiceStack side by side with MVC - asp.net-mvc-4

Question

I managed to run ServiceStack side by side with MVC4, but I still have a little problem and hope someone can help me with that.
When executing a debugging session through VS2012, everthying works perfect - the browser is opened and the first page is loaded well. But then when refreshing the page, and trying to get to http://localhost:62322/Content/site.css, the following error is displayed:
Handler for Request not found:
Request.ApplicationPath: /
Request.CurrentExecutionFilePath: /Content/site.css
Request.FilePath: /Content/site.css
Request.HttpMethod: GET
Request.MapPath('~'): D:\All\Projects\ExampleProject\trunk\ExampleProject\ExampleProject\
Request.Path: /Content/site.css
Request.PathInfo:
Request.ResolvedPathInfo: /Content/site.css
Request.PhysicalPath: D:\All\Projects\ExampleProject\trunk\ExampleProject\ExampleProject\Content\site.css
Request.PhysicalApplicationPath: D:\All\Projects\ExampleProject\trunk\ExampleProject\ExampleProject\
Request.QueryString:
Request.RawUrl: /Content/site.css
Request.Url.AbsoluteUri: http://localhost:62322/Content/site.css
Request.Url.AbsolutePath: /Content/site.css
Request.Url.Fragment:
Request.Url.Host: localhost
Request.Url.LocalPath: /Content/site.css
Request.Url.Port: 62322
Request.Url.Query:
Request.Url.Scheme: http
Request.Url.Segments: System.String[]
App.IsIntegratedPipeline: False
App.WebHostPhysicalPath: D:\All\Projects\ExampleProject\trunk\ExampleProject\ExampleProject
App.DefaultHandler: DefaultHttpHandler
App.DebugLastHandlerArgs: GET|/Content/site.css|D:\All\Projects\ExampleProject\trunk\ExampleProject\ExampleProject\Content\site.css
But if I delete the following line of code in AppHost.cs, everything works well, and the handler for site.css is always found:
SetConfig(new EndpointHostConfig { ServiceStackHandlerFactoryPath = "api", DefaultContentType = ContentType.Json });
My requirements for the project are wrapping with ServiceStack any call through the browser (all controllers) as well as calls to /api, which should be handled by a ServiceStack service.
I followed the instructions here:
https://github.com/ServiceStack/ServiceStack/wiki/Run-servicestack-side-by-side-with-another-web-framework
and my web.config looks like this:
<system.web>
<!--...-->
<httpHandlers>
<add path="*" type="ServiceStack.WebHost.Endpoints.ServiceStackHttpHandlerFactory, ServiceStack" verb="*" />
</httpHandlers>
<!--...-->
</system.web>
<location path="api">
<system.web>
<httpHandlers>
<add path="*" type="ServiceStack.WebHost.Endpoints.ServiceStackHttpHandlerFactory, ServiceStack" verb="*" />
</httpHandlers>
</system.web>
<!-- Required for IIS 7.0 -->
<system.webServer>
<modules runAllManagedModulesForAllRequests="true" />
<validation validateIntegratedModeConfiguration="false" />
<handlers>
<add path="*" name="ServiceStack.Factory" type="ServiceStack.WebHost.Endpoints.ServiceStackHttpHandlerFactory, ServiceStack" verb="*" preCondition="integratedMode" resourceType="Unspecified" allowPathInfo="true" />
</handlers>
</system.webServer>
</location>
Does anybody know why the handler for site.css sometimes found and sometimes not?
Furthermore, if I did a mistake with configuring ServiceStack to wrap my whole server, please point me to them.

Answer 1

From what you are trying to do I would recommend starting with a plain ASP.NET Web Application. Once your project is set, using NuGet you could do
Install-Package ServiceStack.Host.AspNet
or just follow the configuration here. Doing this runs ServiceStack at the root path /.
In your set up above you don't need this line...
SetConfig(new EndpointHostConfig { ServiceStackHandlerFactoryPath = "api", DefaultContentType = ContentType.Json });
Adding it is telling ServiceStack to only handle requests that contain the '/api' path which is not what you want.