I have created and deployed an ASP.Net 4.6.1 Razor site in Visual Studio 2017 using Web Deploy. Anyway I was given a series of steps by Winhost for getting free SSL certificate by using this site https://www.sslforfree.com/. I followed those steps and created the folders /well-known/acme-challenge via FTP using FileZilla and uploaded the verification files to it.
It's supposed to show all the characters from the verification files. Instead it says in Firefox that there's an XML syntax error when I render the 2 files. It won't tell me what exactly other than show that it can't read the first character. I have tried the steps several times and regenerated the vericiation files to make sure. I am conjecturing something is happening in my web.config file. Any advice you could give me would be appreciated. Is this a problem on my end or my hosting provider's end?
Here is the code of my web.config file.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><configuration><system.webServer><staticContent><mimeMap fileExtension="." mimeType="text/xml" /></staticContent></system.webServer><system.web><trust level="Full"/><compilation debug="true" targetFramework="4.6.1"/><httpRuntime targetFramework="4.6.1"/></system.web><runtime><assemblyBinding xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1"><dependentAssembly><assemblyIdentity name="System.Web.Helpers" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35"/><bindingRedirect oldVersion="1.0.0.0-3.0.0.0" newVersion="3.0.0.0"/></dependentAssembly><dependentAssembly><assemblyIdentity name="System.Web.WebPages" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35"/><bindingRedirect oldVersion="1.0.0.0-3.0.0.0" newVersion="3.0.0.0"/></dependentAssembly></assemblyBinding></runtime></configuration>
Kind regards,
Jordan Nash