loading .json files generates 404 errors

Question

My first Azure website is a simple test site I\'ve had for a while that makes ajax calls back to the server for JSON data. All the data files have .json extensions. Azure

Answer 1

I too found Ahmed Sabbour's blog post helpful, but it created an additional problem for me. Whilst the fix worked for the Azure Web App when I then tried to run the app locally it died horribly, throwing HTTP 500.19 everywhere. It took me a while to figure out how to fix this whilst maintaining a single web.config. The solution was (albeit a bit of a fudge) to remove the fileExtension first and then add it back in:

For my narrow purposes this was fine and I hope this might save someone time trying to figure this out.