Question

I have an Asp.net MVC2 web application. I built the application using VS2008 and tested on internal server, everything was perfect but when I deployed that web application on a local IIS the paths to images in web pages and in CSS file was not correct.

I need to change those paths for working with internal server and local server.
How can I overcome this problem?

Answer 1

Have you tried opening the CSS and Images directly (i.e. not via being called on a page)? Does that work?

How do you link to them on your internal server, if the relative paths don’t equate the same, you’ll have the problem you describe. An example about how you might fix this is to use Url.Content().

e.g. Instead of using:

<link rel="Stylesheet" href="/Styles/Reset.css" />

You would use:

<link rel="Stylesheet" href="<%=Url.Content("~/Styles/Reset.css")%>" />

This would work out the URL depending upon where the application lives on that box – not relative for the web root.

Edit: In case you need to do this through C# code

// This can be used to create img tag
public static string Image(this HtmlHelper helper)
{
    UrlHelper urlHelper = ((Controller)helper.ViewContext.Controller).Url;
    TagBuilder imgTag = new TagBuilder("img");
    imgTag.MergeAttribute("src", urlHelper.Content("~/Content/images/image.gif"));
    imgTag.MergeAttribute("alt", "Alt text");

    return imgTag.ToString(TagRenderMode.SelfClosing);
}