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

So, what I had to do to fix this problem was the following: (and please understand, that this is not ASP or PHP script related, the server wouldn't even show basic simple .html files, yet would serve out PHP results all day long!)

Two fold…

1. Had to set the application pool for each site, under advanced settings, to use LocalSystem for it’s process
2. Under site, advanced settings, security, add the IUSR account to have read & list contents access, for the site… :-)

See any problems with doing that?

'cuz it's working....