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How do I get my asp.net MVC application to recognize the stylesheet on the live server?

Answer 1

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Try "../../Content/Site.css", it might require a relative path from the current Master page (probably /Views/Shared) to work.

Maxime 2010-06-01 15:46:08

I went ahead and tried "../../Content/Site.css" with the same results as the absolute path.

quakkels 2010-06-01 15:53:14

The Content folder is located in /Views or /?That link element is located in the master page in /Views/Shared?Try using HttpContext.Current.Request for debugging purposes, especially Path properties, it will help.Also, verify that the resource is really 404 with firebug or fiddle when loading the page.

Maxime 2010-06-01 15:59:37

the content folder is in its default location (root)/Content. Firebug does indicate that the error is 404. I placed <%= HttpContext.Current.Request%> on the master page and it printed: System.Web.HttpRequest. I suspect I'm supposed to do something other than just print it :-)

quakkels 2010-06-01 16:13:18

Answer 2

+2 A:

Always use html helpers when working with urls:

<link rel="Stylesheet" 
      type="text/css" 
      href="<%= Url.Content("~/Content/Site.css") %>" />

Or even better with MVCContrib:

<%= Html.Stylesheet("~/Content/Site.css") %>

Darin Dimitrov 2010-06-01 15:54:31

Thanks for the input. <%= Url.Content("~/Content/Site.css") %> returns the same thing in the browser that I had entered before: /Content/Site.css. It still works on the virtual server but not on the live server.

quakkels 2010-06-01 16:02:57

Could you post the full **physical** path to this stylesheet? Also what does FireBug says about it?

Darin Dimitrov 2010-06-01 16:25:04

@Darin - Sure thing Z:\Standard Sites\test website\Content\Site.css also, I've been trying to get to it from the browser by going to xx.xx.xx.x/Content/Site.css (the ip address xx.xx.xx.x goes to Z:\Standard Sites\test website\)

quakkels 2010-06-01 16:29:35

@Darin - Firebug says: HTTP/1.1 404 Not FoundCache-Control: privateContent-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8Server: Microsoft-IIS/7.5X-AspNet-Version: 2.0.50727X-Powered-By: ASP.NETDate: Tue, 01 Jun 2010 16:33:38 GMTContent-Length: 1511

quakkels 2010-06-01 16:35:14

Try adding the following in the beginning of your route definitions: `routes.IgnoreRoute("{folder}/{*pathInfo}", new {folder="Content"});`

Darin Dimitrov 2010-06-01 16:37:50

@Darin - thanks for continuing to help me troubleshoot. I'll try this out right away. (I'm still stumped as to why the css works on the virtual server and not the live one.)

quakkels 2010-06-01 16:43:30

Sweet... That looks like it's working!!!

quakkels 2010-06-01 16:46:55

Do you have any idea why I needed to modify Global.asax.cs to get css files to work? If not that's fine. Just wondering if you had any thoughts on it.

quakkels 2010-06-01 16:48:28

It's because it seems that the server has a wildcard mapping to the aspnet_isapi filter meaning that every request even for static resources goes through the routing engine. So when you perform the following request: `/content/site.css` because of this wildcard mapping the server tries to locate a controller called `content` and an action called `site.css` which does not exist. By adding the `IgnoreRoute` you basically say that everything that is inside the `Content` folder should be passed along the pipeline and not handled by the routing engine.

Darin Dimitrov 2010-06-01 16:52:43

Answer 3

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Did you ever find a solution to this? I'm having the exact same problem when I try to host on a live server, it's almost as if the server isn't hosting the css file.

blackn1ght 2010-10-25 09:47:50

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