Question

UPDATE this issue does not exist in the release bits of ASP.NET MVC

I have an ASP.NET MVC RC app which runs fine under the debugger running from http://localhost:9002/ But when I publish it to http://localhost/Zot/ the calls to Url.Content are returning incorrect values.

I have script tags like

<script src='<%= Url.Content('~/Scripts/util.js') %>' ... 

In the published site this produces:

<script src='Zot/Scripts/util.js' ... 

Instead of

<script src='/Zot/Scripts/util.js' ... 

or

<script src='Scripts/util.js' ... 

I have stylesheet tags like:

<link href='~/Content/Site.css' runat='server' ... 

That produce the right thing:

<link href='Content/Site.css' ... 

Any suggestions on why Url.Content is failing. I clearly can’t put a runat='server' on the <script> tags.

Answer 1

I tend to use Rob Conery’s Script Registration helper:

public static string RegisterJS(this System.Web.Mvc.HtmlHelper helper, string scriptLib) {   //get the directory where the scripts are   string scriptRoot = VirtualPathUtility.ToAbsolute('~/Scripts');   string scriptFormat='<script src=\'{0}/{1}\' type=\'text/javascript\'></script>\r\n';   return string.Format(scriptFormat,scriptRoot,scriptLib); } 

Usage:

<%= Html.RegisterJS('myscriptFile.js') %> 

As you can see in the example, this uses VirtualPathUtility to resolve the url of the Scripts directory. This should also help to bypass the problem of tag soup.