Running ASP.NET MVC application in a subdirectory, getting 404 errors

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I have an application that uses ASP.NET MVC. I have it deployed to a Crystal Tech server (hence, no direct access to IIS control panel).

Initialy this was running in the root directory and everything was OK. The client then decided that it needed to run in a subdirectory. I moved the app there and the home index page comes up, but every other page tries to access the the controller/action/page/view in the original root directory. I don't understand this, since the references were all contextual (i. e. using ../controller/action as opposed to mysite.com/controller/action).

Am I doing something wrong here? What are my options?

Thanks, James

the url in the browser navigation bar is relative to the subfolder or relative to the main root? Have you tried to manually insert the subfolder/controller/action/id path? — Andrea Balducci
– Andrea Balducci, Commented Dec 9, 2009 at 21:32

tvanfosson · Accepted Answer · 2009-12-09 21:25:13Z

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I would use the UrlHelper to generate the links. This would ensure that they are relative to the application path.

<a href="<%= Url.Action( "action", "controller" ) %>">Link Text</a>

and

<img src="<%= Url.Content( "~/images/myimg.jpg" ) %>" alt="My Image" />

answered Dec 9, 2009 at 21:25

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Josh Noe Over a year ago

And in your javascript, css, etc?

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