Unable to download packages from a self hosted nuget server (404 error)

Question

I installed a self hosted Nuget server as described here. I am using Windows 2008 R2, IIS 7.5 and Nuget 1.7.

From within VS I am able to see my self hosted packages in

Answer 1

please make sure in IIS to set the .nupkg extention mime type to application/zip.

See also these discussion for more info: Issue #707, Discussion #246387