Using WebApi on WinHost

I've put together a very basic tutorial for a jQuery Mobile app with a very basic tutorial using the Web Api with VS 2013 and VB.NET. The Web Api is just for use with my UI within my app as a way to bridge between html and asp.net. It works perfectly on my development machine but the Web Api part fails when I move it to Winhost. Do I need to change one of the config files or does Winhost have to do something to allow Web Api?

Here is the html/JS/jQuery code that calls the Asp.net code:

HTML:

 var uri = 'api/class1s';  // sets up the URI
        function find() {
            var id = $('#prodId').val();
            $.getJSON(uri + '/' + id)              //  calls the URI with a search id provided below
                .done(function (data) {
                    $('#product').text(formatItem(data));
                })
                .fail(function (jqXHR, textStatus, err) {
                    $('#product').text('Error: ' + err);
                });
        }
There is an input field to provide the id used in the $.getJSON above

            <div>
                <input type="text" id="prodId" size="5" />
                <input type="button" value="Search" onclick="find();" />
                <p id="product" />
            </div>

The web.config is:

Code:

       <configuration>
      <system.web>
    <compilation debug="true" targetFramework="4.5.1" />
    <httpRuntime targetFramework="4.5.1" />
     </system.web>
     <system.webServer>
    <handlers>
      <remove name="ExtensionlessUrlHandler-Integrated-4.0" />
      <remove name="OPTIONSVerbHandler" />
      <remove name="TRACEVerbHandler" />
      <add name="ExtensionlessUrlHandler-Integrated-4.0" path="*." verb="*" type="System.Web.Handlers.TransferRequestHandler"       preCondition="integratedMode,runtimeVersionv4.0" />
    </handlers>
     </system.webServer>
    </configuration>

There is also a WebApiConfig:

Code:

     Imports System
    Imports System.Collections.Generic
    Imports System.Linq
    Imports System.Web.Http

    Public Module WebApiConfig
    Public Sub Register(ByVal config As HttpConfiguration)
        ' Web API configuration and services

        ' Web API routes
        config.MapHttpAttributeRoutes()

        config.Routes.MapHttpRoute(
            name:="DefaultApi",
            routeTemplate:="api/{controller}/{id}",
            defaults:=New With {.id = RouteParameter.Optional}
        )
     End Sub
    End Module

There is also a class to define the data and a "controller" to populate data and return data via the Web Api. These should not affect this problem (and work perfectly on my desktop PC). Otherwise, this is just a standard VS2013 ASP.Net 4.5.1 project using an empty website with the Web Api option selected. Is there a config change needed in my code or does Winhost have to do something to enable Web Api?

 

I should have known better! I was so focused on this having only html web pages that I forgot that the VB code behind was still ASP.NET. I forgot to configure the folder for asp. It works fine now.