Accessing static content of an ASP.Net MVC project with IIS7

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I've create a web site on my local IIS 7 with my own ASP.Net MVC project on its root.

Everything is working fine except for the static content. Going to http://localhost:8080/Content/Site.css gives me a 404. I can see the folder on IIS Manager.

The content is served fine with the small development server you get when you run the application on Visual Studio 2008. Any ideas what might be wrong?

Pablo Fernandez · Accepted Answer · 2009-06-23 22:56:02Z

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The problem was permissions. Even though when I create the IIS7 web site I told it to access the files as my user (it wouldn't work at all otherwise), for static file it was using the user of the application pool. Giving access to IIS APPPOOL\MyApplication to the folder where my project was fixed the issue.

answered Jun 23, 2009 at 22:56

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Arnis Lapsa Over a year ago

I've seen this before when toyed with SQLite.

chris166 · Accepted Answer · 2009-06-23 12:49:32Z

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How about

routes.RouteExistingFiles = true;

in your Global.asax?

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Pablo Fernandez Over a year ago

That in Global.asax.cs didn't help. Is it possible that the ASP.Net MVC template is broken is such a way? I was expecting a configuration issue, not a coding issue. Thanks.

chris166 Over a year ago

The default is that all existing files are routed. When I create a new MVC app in Visual Studio, I can access all static files in /Content. You just have to find who changed the default settings and where ;)

Pablo Fernandez Over a year ago

I can access the static files in Content as well when using the development server, but not on my deployment to IIS7.

chris166 Over a year ago

I only develop with IIS7... Did you try this on another machine with IIS7?

Pablo Fernandez Over a year ago

I don't have any other machine with IIS7, and I'm not sure what I did but it started working after doing that and removing this line.

Lazarus · Accepted Answer · 2009-06-23 11:05:32Z

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Try going to http://localhost:8080/../../Content/Site.css, not sure if your original URL is matching a route.

Not really a programming question though.

answered Jun 23, 2009 at 11:05

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Pablo Fernandez Over a year ago

There's no route for it, it's static content. That URL gets converted into localhost:8080/Content/Site.css.

Lazarus Over a year ago

You're right, I hadn't tried it myself. If you move a copy of the css into the root of the site can you load it then?

Pablo Fernandez Over a year ago

No, I can't access static content anywhere. Not CSS or folders (I've enabled indexing).

Lazarus Over a year ago

Glad to see you found a solution, you should mark that as the answer.

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