绝对存在的文件的404错误

Question

I am getting a 404 error for a file that is absolutely there.

It's at location domain.com/video/videoname.mp4 . When I try to play it using Flash, it says video not found or access denied.

It keeps giving not found errors.

When I navigate to domain.com/video/ , videoname.mp4 appears very clearly there. However, when I click it, it gives a 404 error.

Would this be a permissions issue?

It's a Windows server, which I'm less useful. There's also an IIS install, but it isn't used in the actual administration of this particular site.

My guess is a server setting or a permissions setting, but I'm trying to do a sanity check here.

Answer 1

You can setup the IIS server to run under a specific account one that doesn't have access issues. I would just make sure you create an application account to do this and don't put it on a user account. I know that there are IUSR accounts that are the default accounts that are used by IIS these default accounts might have the permission issues.

Another possibility is that the MIME type for the video is not setup properly. You could put a basic html file in this directory to test to see if the extension MIME mapping might be a problem.