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

Question

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

score 12 · Accepted Answer · edited Feb 28 '14 at 20:18

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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?

edited Feb 28 '14 at 20:18

Josh M.

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answered Apr 18 '11 at 01:27

Jacob

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Woops... I gave `IIS_IUSRS` full access to the folder and it's working now. – Nathan Osman Apr 18 '11 at 01:28
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How to set it up in IIS Express? and how come there is no IIS_IUSRS in my computer? – Blaise Jul 21 '14 at 20:46
Like @Blaise I'd like to know how to manage IIS users with IIS Express. – Antoine Apr 01 '15 at 14:32

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

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