Visual Studio, JSON + Failed to load resource: 404

[clark]

This one was obscure for me, I set up Visual Studio as normal, and downloaded Phaser (or PIXI btw) as normal. But when I ran it, I would always get:

Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 (Not Found)

 

With regards to the JSON file of my Sprite Sheet. 

In Visual Studio, I need to double click on web.config and then enter these lines:
 

<configuration>  <system.web>    <compilation debug="true" targetFramework="4.5" />    <httpRuntime targetFramework="4.5" />  </system.web>  <system.webServer>    <staticContent>      <mimeMap fileExtension=".json" mimeType="application/json" />    </staticContent>  </system.webServer></configuration>

I have no idea what is happening here, but I burned 6 hours on it. Hopefully this will show up on a google result for someone else. Maybe its my browser settings or whatever but the point is, that it works!
 

[rich]

So basically the http server built into VS doesn't support serving json files? That's brilliant, well done Microsoft At least you found a fix!

[Massemassimo]

Thanks a lot, I too wasted quite some time (and annoyed my girlfriend hissing "it won't parse my json, why won't it parse my json?!" for a while).

[owen]

This does indeed solve it