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I need to get the base path because currently my application is hosted as a sub-site like:

www.example.com/site1/site2/

Where my IIS application is setup in site2, but my razor pages and master page is referencing things like:

 <link href="/Assets/css/styles.css" rel="stylesheet">

When in this case it should be like:

 <link href="/site1/site2/Assets/css/styles.css" rel="stylesheet">

I also have images like:

 <img src="/Assets/images/logo.jpg" />

How can I get this to work in a dynamic way so I don't have to hard code the sub-directory somewhere?

loyalflow
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You should use the built in helpers to get the relative path to your content. 

 <link href="@Url.Content("~/Assets/css/styles.css")" rel="stylesheet">

For a site hosted at www.domain.com/site/subdirectory, the above will render out to 

<link href="/site/subdirectory/Assets/css/styles.css" rel="stylesheet">

And, if you ever move your site or change your root path, you will not have to change your markup code.

More examples:

Images

<img src="@Url.Content("~/Assets/images/logo.jpg")" />

Javascript

<script type="text/javascript" src="@Url.Content("~/Assets/Scripts/jsfile.js")"></script>
Tommy
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  • I don't know what you mean by link URLs? – Tommy Apr 18 '13 at 19:03
  • This method is for providing the correct path to any static content on your web server. If you are asking about how to make links to controller/actions -> that is a different issue. But one we can help you with. – Tommy Apr 18 '13 at 19:05
  • Yes for links, so the @Action.ActionLink have to be aware of the sub-directories etc. – loyalflow Apr 18 '13 at 19:42
  • @Html.ActionLink() references a controller/action and has nothing to do with subDirectories. When you put @Html.ActionLink("Text", "action", "controller") it has no bearing on what level of a subdirectory your application is at. – Tommy Apr 18 '13 at 20:21