Re: VS.NET, Default Web Site, and relative paths...

Use ~/ as your root.

Thus instead of linking to /myapp/default.aspx
you should link to ~/default.aspx

HTH
// Ryan

On 12/14/06, Ben Joyce <[email protected]> wrote:
> Morning all.
>
> I am developing a website in VS.NET 2005 on an XP machine and by
> default it has created the site under the Default Web Site on the
> local machine.  When I run my app within VS.NET or browse it mnually I
> find it at the following address:
>
> http://localhost/myapp/default.aspx
>
> Within my application I reference other pages using the syntax
> "/myapp/blah/blah/blah" - (such as the main menu at the root, the
> images folder, and various other shared resources).
>
> This works fine locally and in the development stages, but when in
> production the website will not live under a /myapp folder from the
> Default Web Site root - it will be a new website.
>
> This causes a problem with referencing the site root as "/myapp".
>
> I'd like to find a solution that works in both situations without
> making any code changes when I put the site into production.
>
> Any help or thoughts appreciated.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Ben
>
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