ASP.NET MVC deployment to IIS 5/6 with Virtual Directory

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I have an asp.net MVC App that I want to deploy to IIS 5 and/or 6 using a Virtual Directory.

I have already performed the wildcard routing, but I have a problem with relative paths.

Imagine I have created a virtual directory called myApp.

After deploying I can go to http://localhost/myApp and am greeted by the index page. My index page has a link defined as <a href="/Employees">Employees</a>. Clicking on this navigates to
http://localhost/Employees which results in a 404 error.

I would like it to navigate to http://localhost/myApp/Employees instead, but I would prefer it if I didn't have to code the virtual directory name into my project.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Best Answer

Use Html.ActionLink to generate your hyperlinks rather than creating them directly, I think that'll sort it for you. Alternatively, use ./Employees which should get you where you want to go.

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IIS 5.1 interprets your url such that its looking for a folder named 1000 under the folder named Test. Why is that so?

This happens because IIS 6 only invokes ASP.NET when it sees a “filename extension” in the URL that’s mapped to aspnet_isapi.dll (which is a C/C++ ISAPI filter responsible for invoking ASP.NET). Since routing is a .NET IHttpModule called UrlRoutingModule, it doesn’t get invoked unless ASP.NET itself gets invoked, which only happens when aspnet_isapi.dll gets invoked, which only happens when there’s a .aspx in the URL. So, no .aspx, no UrlRoutingModule, hence the 404.

Easiest solution is:

If you don’t mind having .aspx in your URLs, just go through your routing config, adding .aspx before a forward-slash in each pattern. For example, use {controller}.aspx/{action}/{id} or myapp.aspx/{controller}/{action}/{id}. Don’t put .aspx inside the curly-bracket parameter names, or into the ‘default’ values, because it isn’t really part of the controller name - it’s just in the URL to satisfy IIS.

Source: http://blog.codeville.net/2008/07/04/options-for-deploying-aspnet-mvc-to-iis-6/

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Try this:

<script type="text/javascript" src="<%=Url.Content("~/Scripts/jquery-1.2.6.js")%>"></script>

Or use MvcContrib and do this:

<%=Html.ScriptInclude("~/Content/Script/jquery.1.2.6.js")%>

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