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After a clean re-installation of my Windows 7 system, I can't get IIS 7 to properly deliver any static content. Dynmic content (ASPX pages and content served by ASP.NET MVC controllers) works fine, but static files such as CSS, Javascript and Images give me a 200 OK status code and a Content-Length of 0.

The problem occurs with all web sites on my server, even a brandnew ASP:NET MVC template project with no changes. It also occurs with both Firefox and IE 8.

What could possibly be the problem?

Note that I also installed the latest Windows Azure SDK, perhaps that messed up some settings. But I don't know how to proceed with for troubleshooting this.

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Check your "Windows Features" for

Internet Information Services > WWW Services > Common HTTP Features > Static Content

IIS HTTP static content

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    Yesss! Thank you so much. It looks so obvious once I know about this. I wonder why it wasn't checked by default in the first place :-)
    – Adrian Grigore
    Feb 21, 2010 at 16:07
  • Monday morning, and this saved my day!
    – Daniel Lidström
    Jan 13, 2014 at 7:38
  • This is halarious. So customizable and with such sensible defaults.
    – axk
    Mar 19, 2019 at 19:18

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