Question

I am developing an ASP.NET MVC applications with MS Visual Studio 2008 SP1.

My project structure is the default one:

Project |-Content |-css |-img |-Models |-Views |-Controllers

The thing is, I am able to access all the content placed under Content directory provided the file is included in the project. On the other hand, if I happen to have an image (I.E. an image uploaded by the user) that’s on the right physical directory (Project\Content\img) but is not included in the project, I keep getting a 404 error when I access them with a browser.

I think my URL is correct:

http://localhost:1260/Content/img/my_image.jpg

And I do have a file under Project\Content\img\my_image.jpg.

What can be wrong? Am I forced to include all the files on the project? I don’t think so, because that would mean that I can’t have images uploaded and saved by the web users this way.

Thanks a lot.

Answer 1

If you’re hosting your project with IIS 7, you must add he content-type in IIS 7(Handler Mapping). But if you’re hosting your project with the Asp.net Developer Server, it’s not required.

Using the following code in web.config file

<configuration>    <system.webServer>      <handlers>       <add name='css mapping' path='*.css' verb='*' type='System.Web.StaticFileHandler' resourceType='Unspecified' preCondition='integratedMode' />       <add name='js mapping' path='*.js' verb='*' type='System.Web.StaticFileHandler' resourceType='Unspecified' preCondition='integratedMode' />       <add name='gif mapping' path='*.gif' verb='*' type='System.Web.StaticFileHandler' resourceType='Unspecified' preCondition='integratedMode' />       <add name='jpg mapping' path='*.jpg' verb='*' type='System.Web.StaticFileHandler' resourceType='Unspecified' preCondition='integratedMode' />       <add name='png mapping' path='*.png' verb='*' type='System.Web.StaticFileHandler' resourceType='Unspecified' preCondition='integratedMode' />            </handlers>    </system.webServer> </configuration>