Twitter bootstrap glyphicons do not appear in release mode 404

Question

I`m working on a project in ASP.NET MVC 4 and I did following steps:

1. Downloaded twitter bootstrap from http://blog.getbootstrap.com/2013/12/05/bootstrap-3-0-3-released/

2. Set Build action on font files to Content (files are located in ~/Content/font folder)

   glyphicons-halflings-regular.eot
   glyphicons-halflings-regular.svg
   glyphicons-halflings-regular.ttf
   glyphicons-halflings-regular.woff
   

3. Added to RouteConfig.cs

   routes.IgnoreRoute("{folder}/{*pathInfo}", new { folder = "Content" });

4. Added following elements to Web.config

   <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
   <system.webServer>
      <staticContent>
          <remove fileExtension=".eot" />
          <remove fileExtension=".ttf" />
          <remove fileExtension=".otf"/>
          <remove fileExtension=".woff"/>
          <mimeMap fileExtension=".eot" mimeType="application/vnd.ms-fontobject" />
          <mimeMap fileExtension=".ttf" mimeType="font/ttf" />
          <mimeMap fileExtension=".otf" mimeType="font/otf" />
         <mimeMap fileExtension=".woff" mimeType="font/x-woff" />
      </staticContent>
   </system.webServer>
   

5. Included following code in BundleConfig.cs

   bundles.Add(new StyleBundle("~/bundles/maincss")
                       .Include("~/Content/bootstrap/bootstrap.css")
                       .Include("~/Content/bootstrap/bootstrap-theme.css")
                       .Include("~/Content/hbl-full.css"));
   

   Also tried with following code

   IItemTransform cssFixer = new CssRewriteUrlTransform();
   
   bundles.Add(new StyleBundle("~/bundles/maincss")
                       .Include("~/Content/bootstrap/bootstrap.css", cssFixer)
                       .Include("~/Content/bootstrap/bootstrap-theme.css", cssFixer)
                       .Include("~/Content/hbl-full.css", cssFixer));
   

6. Called in main Layout.cshtml

   @Styles.Render("~/bundles/maincss")

Still in localhost icons are shown normally, but when I push code to release server, I can only see square instead of icon and in Chrome`s Console tab I get

GET http://domain.apphb.com/fonts/glyphicons-halflings-regular.woff 404 (Not Found) test:1

GET http://domain.apphb.com/fonts/glyphicons-halflings-regular.ttf 404 (Not Found) test:1

GET http://domain.apphb.com/fonts/glyphicons-halflings-regular.svg 404 (Not Found) test:1

Thank you.

Answer 1

I had this problem and I found it was happening due to the minification when building in release mode.

Rather than downloading the files manually from the bootstrap site and configuring bundling I use the nuget package which does it for me.

If you would like to do that take the following steps.

Run the following command to install Bootstrap:

Install-Package Twitter.Bootstrap.MVC

This downloads all the bootrap files and includes the below pre-defined Bootstrap bundle config:

public class BootstrapBundleConfig
{
    public static void RegisterBundles()
    {
        // Add @Styles.Render("~/Content/bootstrap") in the <head/> of your _Layout.cshtml view
        // For Bootstrap theme add @Styles.Render("~/Content/bootstrap-theme") in the <head/> of your _Layout.cshtml view
        // Add @Scripts.Render("~/bundles/bootstrap") after jQuery in your _Layout.cshtml view
        // When <compilation debug="true" />, MVC4 will render the full readable version. When set to <compilation debug="false" />, the minified version will be rendered automatically
        BundleTable.Bundles.Add(new ScriptBundle("~/bundles/bootstrap").Include("~/Scripts/bootstrap.js"));
        BundleTable.Bundles.Add(new StyleBundle("~/Content/bootstrap").Include("~/Content/bootstrap.css"));
        BundleTable.Bundles.Add(new StyleBundle("~/Content/bootstrap-theme").Include("~/Content/bootstrap-theme.css"));
    }
}

The above also includes comments describing how to render out the bundles.

I think the original 404 font error was due the fonts folder being at a different level to what is specified in the minified css.

If you prefer to keep your current solution the only way I could fix the 404 was to copy the font folder to the root of the web application.

To test it locally simply remove debug="true" from your web config to save deploying to AppHarbor.

Answer 2

Here's how I solved it -- I'm using MVC5 and Bootstrap 3.1.1.

I have my files organized in the project like this:

/Content/Bootstrap/bootstrap.css
                   bootstrap.min.css
/Content/fonts/glyphicons-halflings-regular.eot
               glyphicons-halflings-regular.svg
               glyphicons-halflings-regular.ttf
               glyphicons-halflings-regular.woff

Then I added another level to my virtual path in the bundle config

bundles.Add(new StyleBundle("~/Content/site/css").Include(
    "~/Content/bootstrap/bootstrap.css",
    "~/Content/styles/site.css"
));

Previously I had used ~/Content/css

And in the view...

@Styles.Render("~/Content/site/css")

This worked but I still got a 404 on one of the fonts... so I added Giles' solution.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<system.webServer>
    <staticContent>
        <remove fileExtension=".eot" />
        <remove fileExtension=".ttf" />
        <remove fileExtension=".otf"/>
        <remove fileExtension=".woff"/>
        <mimeMap fileExtension=".eot" mimeType="application/vnd.ms-fontobject" />
        <mimeMap fileExtension=".ttf" mimeType="font/ttf" />
        <mimeMap fileExtension=".otf" mimeType="font/otf" />
        <mimeMap fileExtension=".woff" mimeType="application/font-woff" />
        <mimeMap fileExtension=".woff2" mimeType="application/font-woff2" />
    </staticContent>
</system.webServer>

Answer 3

Copying the font folder to the root of the web app and changing the mime types in web.config to

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<system.webServer>
  <staticContent>
    <remove fileExtension=".eot" />
    <remove fileExtension=".ttf" />
    <remove fileExtension=".otf"/>
    <remove fileExtension=".woff"/>
    <mimeMap fileExtension=".eot" mimeType="application/vnd.ms-fontobject" />
    <mimeMap fileExtension=".ttf" mimeType="font/ttf" />
    <mimeMap fileExtension=".otf" mimeType="font/otf" />
    <mimeMap fileExtension=".woff" mimeType="application/font-woff" />
  </staticContent>
</system.webServer>

fixed the issue for me. Please note that the .woff mimeType is different to the one in the question.

Answer 4

I had the same problem, using IIS 7.5 webserver.

The solution was to add .woff to the list of file name extensions with MIME type application/octet-stream on the webserver.

You could also achieve the same in web.config:

<staticContent>
    <remove fileExtension=".woff" />
    <mimeMap fileExtension=".woff" mimeType="application/octet-stream" />
</staticContent>

Answer 5

I had the same issue. I don't really know why but if I remove the bootstrap.min.css file and set the CssRewriteUrlTransform on the bundle everything is working. I'm using bootstrap v3.1.1

EDIT: After some investigation the solution is defined here : CssRewriteUrlTransform is not being called So removing the bootstrap.min.css or referencing bootstrap.min.css instead of bootstrap.css will force the bundling/minification on your file and so it will call the CssRewriteUrlTransform.

Answer 6

I had the same problem. I got around it by using bootstrap's CDN.

Answer 7

In the IgnoreRoute, you specified the "Content" folder. Try also adding one for fonts", since that is what your are requesting.

routes.IgnoreRoute("{folder}/{*pathInfo}", new { folder = "fonts" });