Quick fix: IIS .woff font file 404 not found in asp.net mvc

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This is just a very quick “bugfix” I found.
When using Twitter Bootstrap Glyphicons the font comes in a lot of flavors, including .ttf and woff. Somehow it seems that IIS will return a 404 not found when requesting the .woff file – even though the file definitely exists and the URL is correct. The problem lies within the MIME-types that IIS use.

You’ll have to add this MIME:

<system.webServer>
    <staticContent>
      <remove fileExtension=".woff" />
      <mimeMap fileExtension=".woff" mimeType="application/x-font-woff" />
    </staticContent>    
  </system.webServer>

If you don’t want to add this to the web.config, you can also configure the IIS server in the UI.
Vóila!


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