I have created an Asp.Net Razor site in Visual Studio 2017. Anyway I was given a series of steps by Winhost for getting free SSL certificate. I followed those steps using SSL for Free. I've used FileZilla to create the folder path and uploaded the verification files.
This is what's happening in the verification files that I uploaded to my site to get my SSL certificate. It says in Firefox that there's a syntax error. It can't read the first character. I am conjecturing something wrong is happening in my web.config file.
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>
My objective is for these verification files which I downloaded from SSL for Free to be read on my domain on the server end. If they show a series of alhpa numerical characters then I can download a free security certificate that Winhost will then willingly install for me.
Here are the verification files I have on the server. I was hesitant to provide this at first due to security reasons but now I realize I can just regenerate different verification files later. Here they are. In case the links don't work it says in Firefox "XML Parsing Error: syntax error".
http://consolecommander.net/.well-known/acme-challenge/utptZ7KkbCkDNBuK0BD23nKYQ97bTMpzYiV-zFGKPXw