Question

I’m developing an ASP.MVC 3 project on my local computer where it is located at the root of the local web server.

localhost:12345/(project is here)

However, when I deploy to our public web server this application will be located in a subfolder

www.mycompany.com/myapp/(project goes here)

How do I deal with that mismatch? A few questions come to mind:

1. Do I need to adjust my MVC routes? Or will they just capture anything after /myapp/ ?

2. Do I use HomeController when I don’t really want ‘Home’ to appear in the route? i.e. /myapp/home/(action)/(id) – rather I want this: /myapp/(action)/(id) if Home is the controller.

3. Should I match this folder structure on my local machine? (This project will never have access to anything outside that ‘myapp’ folder)

4. If 3 is yes, how?

I’m using VS 2010 with IIS Express locally.

Answer 1

1. The routes are relative to the web application. Which means that you don’t need to have /myapp/ in your routes.
2. No you don’t need to have Home appear in the route. Personally as a practice I take out the default route.
3. No you don’t need to match this folder structure.