Question

To simplify this test case, I created a new default .NET MVC project in Visual Studio 2010, and added the following code to the HTML header in Site.Master:

<script type="text/javascript" src="../../Scripts/jquery-1.4.1.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
  jQuery(document).ready(function () { alert('jQuery document ready'); });
</script>

This works as expected in the .NET development server. However, when deployed to IIS7, the jQuery(document).ready function is not executed. Needless to say, my actual application is much more complicated. This eliminates all “suspects” except IIS7 deployment.

Any thoughts/suggestions?

Answer 1

It’s probably caused by the src reference to

src="../../Scripts/jquery-1.4.1.js"

Replace it with:

src="<%=Url.Content("~/Scripts/jquery-1.4.1.js")%>"

If your site is deployed in a virtual directory this is probably the case.