Page Not Found (404) on ASP.NET Postback from Default Page in a Subdirectory

Question

A website's default page is setup as follows:

http://mysite.com/myapp/ ==> http://mysite.com/myapp/views/default.aspx

As you can see the only thing a little out of the ordinary is that the default page is in a subdirectory (views)

If I access the page via the default URL (http://mysite.com/myapp/) the form tag looks like this

<form name="aspnetForm" method="post" action="default.aspx" id="aspnetForm">

The problem is that the page posts back to http://mysite.com/myapp/default.aspx (missing the "/views/" part of the path) which is a non-existent page, so I get a Page Not Found (404) error.

Has anyone else experienced this? What is the workaround?

Answer 1

You have to change the action link to go to the right location:

<form name="aspnetForm" method="post" action="~/views/default.aspx" id="aspnetForm">