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Nathan Osman
Asked: 2011-04-18 17:26:03 +0800 CST

Why isn't IIS serving my static CSS / JS files?

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I added an ASP.NET MVC3 site to ISS (which was working fine in the debugger). When viewing the site in a browser, everything appeared to be working fine except that all of the CSS and JS files were returning a 404.

Here is the site in IIS Manager:

Other details:

  • OS: Windows Vista Home Premium 32-bit (with SP2)
  • IIS: 7.0.6000.16386
  • Visual Studio 2010 Express with SP1
iis asp.net-mvc http-status-code-404 static-files

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    It sounds like a permissions error. Did you remember to add the IIS User IIS_IUSRS to the list of users that can access the files?

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