How to view a file that's part of an MVC project?

Question

I have a file, eulatest.pdf, that I want to be able to view through my website. At this point I don't really care whether it's at mywebsite.com/eulatest.pdf or mywebsite.com/eula/eulatest.pdf or any variation; I can't get any of these to work. How can I view this file? I'm not even trying to access it through code; I just can't figure out where it is or how to access it at all.

I keep getting this error:

And I've tried putting the file in all of these locations:

Answer 1

You need to add an action in one of your controllers to stream out that file.

public class EULAController : Controller
{
    public ActionResult Index()
    {
        return File("eulatest.pdf","application/pdf");
    }
}

Assuming the file is in the root folder of your application. For more on File checkout this

If this is in EULA Controller use:

 mywebsite.com/eula/

Alternatively you can add that file to ignore lists in your route mapping.