IIS 8.5 is not serving JS, CSS, and Image files (static content)

Question

The problem

We\'re running IIS on Windows 8.1 with Update. We\'re at the Orchard CMS first time setup screen, and IIS is giving 401s for all static content. We hav

Answer 1

I had a similar problem. Under authentication, I right clicked "Anonymous Authentication" and clicked "Edit". That shows a dialog giving you the ability to set the identity of the anonymous user. I set it to "Application pool identity" and that fixed the problem for me.

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This may not be the most secure configuration though, but I'm on a dev server so I don't care.