Home/ Questions/Q 6817443
In Process

The Archive Base Latest Questions

Editorial Team
  • 0
Asked: 2026-05-26T21:03:24+00:00

I have a Visual Studio 2010 project with a Master Page that works fine.

  • 0

I have a Visual Studio 2010 project with a Master Page that works fine.

~/Site.Master

In the same project is a Folder with another directory structure that needs to use another Master Page.

/xr

Within this folder, I have included the Master Page for those files.

/xr/XR.Master

My Default.aspx file attempts to access this Master Page using the following include:

<%@ Page Title="XR Project" Language="C#" MasterPageFile="~/xr/XR.Master" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeBehind="Default.aspx.cs" Inherits="Test1.Default" %>

Debugging on my machine in localhost works fine, but whenever I deploy it and try to navigate to the Default page in the xr folder, I get

Parser Error Message: The file '/xr/xr/XR.Master' does not exist.

However, the Source Error returns Line 1 as I have shown above.

Here is what I tried:

  • I moved the XR.Master page into the root folder and changed all of the files in the xr folder to reference the XR Master Page using the following include:

  • I debugged and tested the code on my machine using localhost, and it worked fine.

  • I pushed it out to the remote website and got the new error:

Parser Error Message: The file '/xr/~/XR.Master' does not exist.

What am I doing wrong?

EDIT: I do not like posting a link to the page, but I will for a short time until this is resolved:

From there, you will see everything works well enough except for the link to XR1200.

Share

Leave an answer

You must login to add an answer.

Need An Account,

1 Answer

  1. Editorial Team

    my guess is that the iis setup is different on the different machines. typically, you see something like this when you have one machine set up with the site itself as a website and another machine set up with the site itself as an application within a website (like the Default Website). it looks like you have addressed this possibility by using the ~ in the path, but perhaps the iis on which you are deploying does not have the site directory itself set up as either a website or an application, but is merely a subdirectory of a site. in that case, the ~ would refer to the website directory (perhaps named xr?) and the site is in a subdirectory of that named xr. if this is the case, the solution is probably to set up iis such that you have the application directory configured as an application on the server to which you are deploying.

    • 0