WebResource.axd not found

Question

I can't get script files to load on my website. Everything else works fine. I haven't tried ScriptResource.axd however.

I have verified this issue exists on both cassini and IIS7.

I have verified my 64bit 4.0 web.config contains the mapping for WebResource.axd.

My system time is correct (I heard there may be issues with that).

I have verified that it works in other projects, so the culprit has to be my web application.

My web application is 4.0 MVC3 web application.

My web.config can be found here.

This error is killing me! Any help would be appreciated!

Answer 1

Plesk Admins, Please disable the Web Application Firewall to solve this issue.

Tools & Settings > Web Application Firewall > Turn Off

Cheers!

Answer 2

Your web.config file is amazing (it's not a compliment): in .NET Framework 4.0, it should be much shorter/lighter.
I think that your handler is declared in the wrong section :

<system.webServer>
    <handlers>
        <add name="WebResource" path="WebResource.axd" verb="GET" type="System.Web.Handlers.AssemblyResourceLoader" />
    </handlers>
</system.webServer>

Normally, the WebResource.axd handler is declared in "system.web" section :

<system.web>
    <httpHandlers>
        <add path="WebResource.axd" verb="GET" type="System.Web.Handlers.AssemblyResourceLoader" validate="True" />
    </httpHandlers>
</system.web>

Answer 3

I resolved a similar issue by adding read permissions for Everyone to the folder where the assembly containing the embedded resource was located. Clearly Everyone is overkill, but that might help others researching similar issues.

In our case some resources loaded (so I know the AssemblyResourceLoader was working) and it worked on one machine but not another.

This answer to another question helped me determine what assemblies were not working.

Answer 4

I solved this issue on a production machine running again aspnet_regiis:

%WINDIR%\Microsoft .NET\Framework\4.xxxx\aspnet_regiis -i

Probably the standard installation of the framework 4 went wrong.