Setting Up a New VPP

I had to configure a new VPP for a Content Channel to work with the SharePoint Connector to push documents from a SharePoint site into my EPiServer site.

So, I created a new VPP entry in my EPiServer.config…

   1: <add showInFileManager="true" virtualName="FOI" virtualPath="~/FOI/"

   2: bypassAccessCheck="false" indexingServiceCatalog="Web" 

   3: physicalPath="C:\EPiServer\VPP\MySite\FOI"

   4: name="FOIFiles" type="EPiServer.Web.Hosting.VirtualPathVersioningProvider,EPiServer" />

…and then configured my Content Channel.

All went well and SharePoint was able to upload documents.

However, when I tried to serve out the documents on the site or view them in the file manager, I kept getting 404’s.

The problem was that, in addition to the VPP entry in the EPiServer.config file, you also need to make a <location> entry in the web.config for your VPP, like so…

   1: <location path="FOI">

   2:     <system.webServer>

   3:         <handlers>

   4:             <add name="webresources" path="WebResource.axd" verb="GET" type="System.Web.Handlers.AssemblyResourceLoader" />

   5:             <add name="wildcard" path="*" verb="*" type="EPiServer.Web.StaticFileHandler, EPiServer" />

   6:         </handlers>

   7:     </system.webServer>

   8:     <staticFile expirationTime="-1.0:0:0" />

   9: </location>

Perhaps an obvious thing but I didn’t see any information about this on EPiServer World so I thought I would post it here for anyone else who may encounter the same problem.