Question

I’m debugging a site that is deployed to the site root on the production server, but in my local copy, under the built-in, debugging web server, the URL’s include the ‘site name’. E.g. my local site is ‘PVLive’, so all URL’s are ‘localhost:nnnnn/PVLive/mmmm.aspx’. Certain URL’s are hard coded in the site’s pages to use paths relative to the root, e.g. I get errors when code tries to redirect to ‘localhost:nnnnn/Index.aspx’.

Can I do something to keep the ‘PVLive’ site name out of the URL’s?

Answer 1

Yes you can change the url that your site is run on in cassini (the built in dev server).

I have written an article about this before which you can read here:

• An easy way to keep your dev and live server urls in sync

The steps from the article are:

1. In the Solution Explorer window you select your Project node
2. In the Properties window (press F4 if you can’t see it) you change the “Virtual path” attribute from /ProjectName to /

But you should read the article if you like screenshots and some background info.