I have a website that is working fine with Razor (C#) all the coding is working properly when I use my local testing (WebMatrix IIS).
When I put it "online" on my server the website is not at the root of the site it self
For example:
http:// intranet.mycompany.com/inform
That's basically the "root" of my folder structure so all my folders starts from there (css file default.cshtml... and so on)
My "_PageStart.cshtml" sees it properly cause when I access my site from the link http://intranet.mycompany.com/inform it gives me the Layout I have configured in _PageStart.cshtml (and it really show the layout + the rendered default.cshtml)
BUT nothing else is getting the proper path, for example :
<img src="~/images/logos/hdr.png" />
The img holder is there I can see it but shows that the link is broken... when I Right-Click the img holder and do properties to see where the files should be it shows me :
http:// intranet.mycompany.com/images/logos/hdr.png
So it's going to the "full" root not the relative root...
How can i fix that ?
You have to use relative paths all over your app:
~
won't work within static html code.
You can write
<img src="@Url.Content("~/images/logos/hdr.png")" />
or
<img src="../images/logos/hdr.png" />
The first approach is good for layout files where your relative path might be changing when you have different length routing urls.
EDIT
Regarding to your question about normal links:
When linking to another page in your app you don't specify the view file as the target but the action which renders a view as the result. For that you use the HtmlHelper ActionLink
:
@Html.ActionLink("Linktext", "YourController", "YourAction")
That generates the right url for you automatically:
<a href="YourController/YourAction">Linktext</a>
EDIT 2
Ok, no MVC - so you have to generate your links yourself.
You have to use relative paths, too. Don't start any link with the /
character!
<a href="linkOnSameLevel.cshtml">Link</a>
<a href="../linkOnParentLevel.cshtml">Link</a>
<a href="subFolder/linkOnOneLevelDown.cshtml">Link</a>
EDIT 3
When using Layout pages you can use the Href
extension method to generate a relative url:
<link href="@Href("~/style.css")" ...
Use Url.Content
as shown bellow:
<img src="@Url.Content("~/images/logos/hdr.png")" />
I know that '~
' is added by default, but I tend to change it so that all paths are relative to my code file rather than application root, using "..
" eg. "../images/logos"
etc