Fixing the Font Awesome WOFF 404 Error under ASP.NET MVC

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The solution for this is to add the following segment to the WebServer section of your web.config:

  <staticContent>
    <mimeMap fileExtension=".woff" mimeType="application/x-font-woff" />
  </staticContent>

This configures IIS to understand that there is a woff mime type that it should care about, which magically makes the 404 go away.

If you get a 500 Internal Server Error due to there already being a mime map for .woff you can add a remove tab before adding the new mimeMap, like so:

  <staticContent>
    <remove fileExtension=".woff"/>
    <mimeMap fileExtension=".woff" mimeType="application/x-font-woff" />
  </staticContent>

This is not working for me. All of my assets now got a 404 error