IIS: How to serve a file without extension?

Question

I am using IIS 8 on Windows 8.1. I have an XML file an I need to have it accessed through (servername)/(path)

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Answer 1

Changing the configurations by hand can be risky at times. IIS provides a methodology to update the MIME-types through IIS manager also as below. The snapshots are for IIS v10 installed on a windows 10 box:

1. Go to MIME Types feature of the virtual directory of your website:

2. Set up the mime type to support all files without extension :

These steps effectively saves the changes to web.config of your website or virtual directory (under your website) as suggested by @PeterHahndorf in his post.