404.0 web api c# iis 7/7.5

https://stackoverflow.com/a/33684539/186244 

HTTP 404 Page Not Found in Web Api hosted in IIS 7.5

Based on this SO answer, I just had to change path="*." to path="*" for the added ExtensionlessUrlHandler-Integrated-4.0 in configuration>system.WebServer>handlers in my web.config

Before:

<add name="ExtensionlessUrlHandler-Integrated-4.0" path="*." verb="*" type="System.Web.Handlers.TransferRequestHandler" preCondition="integratedMode,runtimeVersionv4.0" />

After:

<add name="ExtensionlessUrlHandler-Integrated-4.0" path="*" verb="*" type="System.Web.Handler

you can change this in the iis itself in the handler mappings section of the site in iis.