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    VPP folder issue

    <p>Fixing 404 errors occuring in EPiServer migration project with files in VPP folders.</p>

    By Lars Timenes

    Sometimes it feels like alzheimer has struck. One issue that made me feel like this was an annoying 404-error that occurred after having migrated an EPiServer4 site. None of the images from the "upload" folder displayed. That stupid 404-thingie! Aarrggh...! I know I have seen it before...

    So this time I was the dummy. The solution was of course a missing section in the web.config-file:

    <location path="Upload">
        <staticFile expirationTime="-1.0:0:0"/>
        <system.webServer>
          <handlers>
            <add name="webresources" path="WebResource.axd" verb="GET" type="System.Web.Handlers.AssemblyResourceLoader"/>
            <add name="wildcard" path="*" verb="*" type="EPiServer.Web.StaticFileHandler, EPiServer"/>
          </handlers>
        </system.webServer>
      </location>

    <location path="Upload">
        <staticFile expirationTime="-1.0:0:0"/>
        <system.webServer>
          <handlers>
            <add name="webresources" path="WebResource.axd" verb="GET" type="System.Web.Handlers.AssemblyResourceLoader"/>
            <add name="wildcard" path="*" verb="*" type="EPiServer.Web.StaticFileHandler, EPiServer"/>
          </handlers>
        </system.webServer>
      </location>

    Why this section was not created correctly in the web.config file is a mystery though.
    As far as I can recall I have migrated sites earlier without running into this issue, but that alzheimer feeling....

    So I think I'll leave this as a reminder to myself :-)