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IIS 500 error - failed to execute URL on .ttf, .svg and .woff font files?

I'm trying to deploy a web application which references http://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/

Everything works great locally, but when I deploy I receive several 500 errors.

> GET
> http://localhost/csweb/Content/font_awesome/font/fontawesome-webfont.ttf
> 500 (Internal Server Error)

> GET
> http://localhost/csweb/Content/font_awesome/font/fontawesome-webfont.woff
> 500 (Internal Server Error)

> GET
> http://localhost/csweb/Content/font_awesome/font/fontawesome-webfont.svg#fontawesomregular
> 500 (Internal Server Error)

A quick search of StackOverflow lead me to this thread: Why is @font-face throwing a 404 error on woff files?

as such I added to my web.config file:

<system.webServer>
    <staticContent>
        <mimeMap fileExtension=".woff" mimeType="application/x-font-woff" />
        <mimeMap fileExtension=".svg" mimeType="image/svg+xml" />
    </staticContent>
...

I see IIS reflecting these changes after calling iisreset, but no effect was seen on the deployed application.

I'm not finding any other obvious answers -- anyone know anything I don't?

Solution

  • Oh hey, I figured it out almost immediately afterward. I need to add the following lines to web.config:

    <httpHandlers>
      <add verb="GET" path="*.woff" type="System.Web.StaticFileHandler" />
      <add verb="GET" path="*.ttf" type="System.Web.StaticFileHandler" />
      <add verb="GET" path="*.svg" type="System.Web.StaticFileHandler" />
      ...