Why font-awesome works on localhost but not on web ?

Question

I\'m using font awesome in my project(mvc/asp.net). My problem is, I was debugging the project and check on localhost, there was no problem with fo

Answer 1

Why font-awesome works on debug mode but not on IIS?

In Visual Studio, by default, some font files are not including during Publish:

• .eot
• .json
• .ttf
• .woff

This is because their build action is set to None, this is by default (on MVC, not sure on WebForms). You must go to the affected file's properties and set it from "None" to "Content".

This is how I solved it (not by manually dragging the files as some may suggest)

Credits goes to this guy: http://edsykes.blogspot.com/2012/09/aspnet-build-actions-with-ttf-eot-and.html

Answer 2

It is also a MIME TYPE problem in the IIS, just add the file extension .woff and it will work

Answer 3

I've just loaded your webpage and checked the net tab of firebug.

your following urls returned a 404:

http://www.senocakonline.com/Content/font/fontawesome-webfont.woff

http://www.senocakonline.com/Content/font/fontawesome-webfont.ttf

i would assume that those being missing is the reason your icons aren't displaying.

UPDATE: 23.10.2015 to make it available just add this code to your WebConfig:

<system.webServer>
    <staticContent>
      <mimeMap fileExtension="woff" mimeType="application/font-woff" />
      <mimeMap fileExtension="woff2" mimeType="application/font-woff" />
    </staticContent>
</system.webServer>

Answer 4

Another solution that solved this issue for me can be found here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/12587256/615285

Quoting from there:

The issue is most likely that the icons/images in the css files are using relative paths, so if your bundle doesn't live in the same app relative path as your unbundled css files, they become broken links.

The easist thing to do is to have your bundle path look like the css directory so the relative urls just work, i.e:

new StyleBundle("~/Static/Css/bootstrap/bundle")

We have added support for this in the 1.1beta1 release, so to automatically rewrite the image urls, you can add a new ItemTransform which does this rebasing automatically.

bundles.Add(new StyleBundle("~/bundles/publiccss").Include(
            "~/Static/Css/bootstrap/bootstrap.css",
            "~/Static/Css/bootstrap/bootstrap-padding-top.css",
            "~/Static/Css/bootstrap/bootstrap-responsive.css",
            "~/Static/Css/bootstrap/docs.css", new CssRewriteUrlTransform()));

Answer 5

In my ASP.NET MVC project with bundling enabled in BundleConfig.cs what worked was this:

Open the file font-awesome.css and change @font-face to this:

@font-face {
  font-family: 'FontAwesome';
  src: url('../font/fontawesome-webfont.eot?v=3.2.1');
  src: url('../font/fontawesome-webfont.eot?#iefix&v=3.2.1') format('embedded-opentype'), url('../font/fontawesome-webfont.woff?v=3.2.1') format('woff'), url('../font/fontawesome-webfont.ttf?v=3.2.1') format('truetype'), url('../font/fontawesome-webfont.svg#fontawesomeregular?v=3.2.1') format('svg');
  font-weight: normal;
  font-style: normal;
}

I had to add ../ before each url.