Debug mode path is not from root

[Chris]

When I go into debug mode and the web page I am working on opens in the
browser via the local Cassini Web Server I get a path appended onto the full
path e.g.

localhost:7859/FolderName/filename_that_should_be_in_the_root.aspx

this is a pain as I do my links from the root e.g. /css/site.css and the
additional folder in the path stops that. Is there any way to get the site
in debug mode to show

localhost:7859/filename_that_should_be_in_the_root.aspx

Regards, Chris.

[Jesse Houwing]

Hello Chris,

When I go into debug mode and the web page I am working on opens in
the browser via the local Cassini Web Server I get a path appended
onto the full path e.g.

localhost:7859/FolderName/filename_that_should_be_in_the_root.aspx

this is a pain as I do my links from the root e.g. /css/site.css and
the additional folder in the path stops that. Is there any way to get
the site in debug mode to show

localhost:7859/filename_that_should_be_in_the_root.aspx

Regards, Chris.

Because you'll never know the deployment url might change you need to write
your code agnostig of the deployment location.

If you have urls in controls (NavigateToUrl, PostBackUrl, ImageUrl etc) you
can use the ~/ notation to specify the application root.

The same goes for certain urls in the head section of a website (stylesheet
links are among those I believe).

You can also put your css files in a theme (put them in a folder called App_Themes\ThemeName)
and set the theme in the Pages tag of the web.config. All pages will automatically
load all css files in the specified themes directory. Should you ever need
to change the look & feel of the pages you can just change teh contents of
the theme directory and all pages will automatically load then new stylesheets.

Jesse

[Chris]

This is what I am doing. Say my website project sits in a folder called
MyProject and I have a css file in a folder css/mystyles.css

I would put the link as href="/css/mystyles.css"

However when I press F5 and go into debug mode the root from the localhost
becomes

localhost:7859/MyProject/css/mystyles.css

which makes my link stop work when in debug mode. It's fine on the live
server. Is there some setting somewhere as it seems so easy to break any
pathing from the root.

Regards, Chris.

"Jesse Houwing" <Je***********@nospam-sogeti.nlwrote in message
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Hello Chris,

>When I go into debug mode and the web page I am working on opens in
the browser via the local Cassini Web Server I get a path appended
onto the full path e.g.

localhost:7859/FolderName/filename_that_should_be_in_the_root.aspx

this is a pain as I do my links from the root e.g. /css/site.css and
the additional folder in the path stops that. Is there any way to get
the site in debug mode to show

localhost:7859/filename_that_should_be_in_the_root.aspx

Regards, Chris.

Because you'll never know the deployment url might change you need to
write your code agnostig of the deployment location.

If you have urls in controls (NavigateToUrl, PostBackUrl, ImageUrl etc)
you can use the ~/ notation to specify the application root.

The same goes for certain urls in the head section of a website
(stylesheet links are among those I believe).

You can also put your css files in a theme (put them in a folder called
App_Themes\ThemeName) and set the theme in the Pages tag of the
web.config. All pages will automatically load all css files in the
specified themes directory. Should you ever need to change the look & feel
of the pages you can just change teh contents of the theme directory and
all pages will automatically load then new stylesheets.

Jesse

[Jesse Houwing]

Hello Chris,

This is what I am doing. Say my website project sits in a folder
called MyProject and I have a css file in a folder css/mystyles.css

I would put the link as href="/css/mystyles.css"

However when I press F5 and go into debug mode the root from the
localhost becomes

localhost:7859/MyProject/css/mystyles.css

which makes my link stop work when in debug mode. It's fine on the
live server. Is there some setting somewhere as it seems so easy to
break any pathing from the root.

Did you have a look at the project properties sheet called "Debug" it allows
you to set such details. But appart from that. Have you tried settign teh
path to your CSS file to

~/css/mystyles.css

This should expand the path to the correct oen each and every time, regardless
of where you're going to deploy it. (You might need to add runat="server"
to the <headtag to make this work.

You could also try the Themes feature I pointed you to earlier.

It's better to cure the desease than to treat it's symptom in my opinion.

Jesse

Regards, Chris.

"Jesse Houwing" <Je***********@nospam-sogeti.nlwrote in message
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>Hello Chris,

>>When I go into debug mode and the web page I am working on opens in
the browser via the local Cassini Web Server I get a path appended
onto the full path e.g.

localhost:7859/FolderName/filename_that_should_be_in_the_root.aspx

this is a pain as I do my links from the root e.g. /css/site.css and
the additional folder in the path stops that. Is there any way to
get the site in debug mode to show

localhost:7859/filename_that_should_be_in_the_root.aspx

Regards, Chris.

Because you'll never know the deployment url might change you need to
write your code agnostig of the deployment location.

If you have urls in controls (NavigateToUrl, PostBackUrl, ImageUrl
etc) you can use the ~/ notation to specify the application root.

The same goes for certain urls in the head section of a website
(stylesheet links are among those I believe).

You can also put your css files in a theme (put them in a folder
called App_Themes\ThemeName) and set the theme in the Pages tag of
the web.config. All pages will automatically load all css files in
the specified themes directory. Should you ever need to change the
look & feel of the pages you can just change teh contents of the
theme directory and all pages will automatically load then new
stylesheets.

Jesse