IIS 8.5 .well-known 404 issue ("." dot in url issue)

Hello IIS support team,

I am touching on a known issue regarding "." (dot) characters in the URL which causes a 404, more specifically with the .well-known for google deep links.

The main issue is that when I create a virtual folder called ".well-known" (on the root or any other location of the site) and link it to the physical path I am not able to access the virtual folder path via the URL.

Please take note of the following information below:

1. 1. I am able to access the physical "well-known" folder directly in the URL with folder browsing enabled.
2. 2. I am able to access ANY virtual directoryWITHOUT the "." (dot) in the URL.
3. 3. I have tested with the following modifications to the web.config:
5. <modules runAllManagedModulesForAllRequests="true" />
7. <validation validateIntegratedModeConfiguration="false" />

<add name="ApiURIs-ISAPI-Integrated-4.0"
path="/*"
verb="GET,HEAD,POST,DEBUG,PUT,DELETE,PATCH,OPTIONS"
type="System.Web.Handlers.TransferRequestHandler"
preCondition="integratedMode,runtimeVersionv4.0" />
</handlers>

1. <requestFiltering allowDoubleEscaping="true" />

<httpRuntime relaxedUrlToFileSystemMapping="true" />

4. I have attempted to convert the folder to an application and copy the URL scan ini into the "app" but it does not seem to work either.

5. The only working solution I have found is to modify the "AllowDotInPath=0" to "AllowDotInPath=1" in the URLscan file, this however is considered as a security risk and will not be allowed on the particular site we are hosting.

If you could please advise on a solution or work around that possibly does not involve hosting another site on the server.

Regards,

David