Using a wwwroot folder (ASP.NET Core style) in ASP.NET 4.5 project

Question

I quite like the approach of the new asp.net (asp.net 5\\core 1.0) web apps with the wwwroot folder being the root and only static files in there being served up.

Answer 1

If you would like to use IIS for this you can create a rewrite rule:

You can also add a prefix to the url regex, such as ^(wwwroot|api)/.*, if this is a web-api that you would like to host at /api.