title: How do I manually deploy a .NET MVC app to AWS via Elastic Beanstalk
body: <p>I'm trying to deploy a simple Hello World ASP.NET MVC 4 app to an free tier EC2 instance using elastic beanstalk. I'm using Visual Web Developer Express (2010) which doesn't support the AWS Toolkit extensions, so how do I deploy the site without the extension?</p>
  
  <p>It seems that with the Elastic Beanstalk web console, you can upload a file as a new applicaiton. But I can't figure out what's supposed to be in the file. Is it a zip containing a published mvc app? I tried that, and when navigating to the instance after it loaded it just displayed the IIS 8 logo. There's a sample zip on a walkthrough page, but it's an old ASP.NET page with 3 xml files in the root. I have no idea what to change in those files for MVC, .NET 4, Server 2012, or IIS 8. I can't find this information anywhere.</p>
  
  <p>I tried creating some EC2 instances manually, remoting in and deploying the site myself. However the free Windows Server 2008 images don't have .NET 4. And the free Windows Server 2012 image doesn't have IIS... I couldn't figure out how to actually deploy my site.</p>