I have followed the deployment document up to step 6, however when I type in the url I either get a blank page or a 404 error. I have tried browsing to the location from a remote PC and from the SharePoint server itself and neither display the index message. I have also tried viewing Index and it showed me a blank page.
 
I was having problems earlier getting this error: "Safe mode did not start successfully. It is an error to use a section registered as allowDefinition='MachineToApplication' beyond application level." with reference to line 32 of my web.config.
 
I commented out the line: <sessionState mode="InProc" cookieless="false" timeout="20" partitionResolverType=""/> so that the page would load. I am wondering if this is causing it to not resolve a route and if there are any possible work arounds?
 
Thanks if anyone can tell me what I am doing wrong.