Question

Back Story
I am currently updating an existing web application to support a multi-tenant environment. Today we current host an application on http://www.example.com/MyApp, but now we must be able to support multiple clients on the same web application.

So each client should be able to access the application through urls like:
http://www.example.com/MyApp/Client1
http://www.example.com/MyApp/Client2

The web application is an ASP.NET webforms app that we are also upgrading to use .NET 4. I have already implemented the new routing available in ASP.NET 4, and I haven already put the appropriate routes in place to support the multi-tenant architecture.

The example URL http://www.example.com/MyApp/Client1/SomeModule/SomePage.aspx will route to and execute /MyApp/SomeModule/SomePage.aspx and I have access to the client part from within the RouteData.

BUT…

Main Question:
We have links in many parts of the application that use url’s like ~/SomeModule/SomePage.aspx, so when they render out to the browser they will still show /MyApp/SomeModule/SomePage.aspx, but what I really want is to have it contain one of my route values to inject the client page like MyApp/Client1/SomeModule/SomePage.aspsx

Is there a way to override what the ~/ means throughout my application without going through my entire app and updating the links?

Answer 1

I doesn’t seem like overriding the ~/ is possible. We have decided to take a different approach and create utility methods to help manage links and paths within our multi-tenant environment.

The best option I saw to actually accomplish this is to implement IUrlResolutionService, but we were unable to make this work successfully.