Permanently adding a mime type to IIS

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Currently if you add a MIME type through iis as follows:

Open Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager

In the Connections pane, go to the site, application, or directory for
which you want to add a MIME type. In the Home pane, double-click MIME
Types.

In the MIME Types pane, click Add… in the Actions pane.

In the Add MIME Type dialog box, add the file name extension and MIME
type, and then click OK.

IIS will delete the entry when you do an IISRESET. There are some developers doing IISRESET and wiping out the user created mime types. My question is, how can I permanently add a MIME type so that even when a developer does an IISRESET, it will not be wiped out and will remain with the other default mime types. Thanks.

Best Answer

Doing an IIS reset should not reset values. I'd check to see if you have an application startup that does something like that. With that said, you could add the values to the server configuration file in:

C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv\config\applicationHost.config

You'd add your standard mapping as such:

<staticContent>
     <mimeMap fileExtension=".ext" mimeType="text/plain" />
</staticContent>

Those values will not get reset during a service restart.

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Using Custom Domains With IIS Express

This is what worked for me (Updated for VS 2013, see revision history for 2010, for VS 2015 see this: https://stackoverflow.com/a/32744234/218971):

Right-click your Web Application Project ▶ Properties ▶ Web, then configure the Servers section as follows:
- Select IIS Express ▼ from the drop down
- Project Url: http://localhost
- Override application root URL: http://dev.example.com
- Click Create Virtual Directory (if you get an error here you may need to disable IIS 5/6/7/8, change IIS's Default Site to anything but port :80, make sure Skype isn't using port 80, etc.)
Optionally: Set the Start URL to http://dev.example.com

Open %USERPROFILE%\My Documents\IISExpress\config\applicationhost.config (Windows XP, Vista, and 7) and edit the site definition in the <sites> config block to be along the lines of the following:

<site name="DevExample" id="997005936">
    <application path="/" applicationPool="Clr2IntegratedAppPool">
        <virtualDirectory
            path="/"
            physicalPath="C:\path\to\application\root" />
    </application>
    <bindings>
        <binding
            protocol="http"
            bindingInformation=":80:dev.example.com" />
    </bindings>
    <applicationDefaults applicationPool="Clr2IntegratedAppPool" />
</site>

If running MVC: make sure the applicationPool is set to one of the "Integrated" options (like "Clr2IntegratedAppPool").
Open your hosts file and add the line 127.0.0.1 dev.example.com.
► Start your application!

Some great advice from the comments:

You may need to run Visual Studio as Administrator.

If you want to make other devs see your IIS run netsh http add urlacl url=http://dev.example.com:80/ user=everyone

If you want the site to resolve for all hosts set bindingInformation="*:80:". Use any port you want, 80 is just convenient. To resolve all hosts you'll need to run Visual Studio as an administrator

How to create a user account for basic authentication

Right click on Computer and choose "Manage" (or go to Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Computer Management) and under "Local Users and Groups" you can add a new user. Then, give that user permission to read the directory where the site is hosted.

Note: After creating the user, be sure to edit the user and remove all roles.

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