I have an ASP.NET MVC web application running in IIS as a subweb; let's say its path is something like http://mysite.com/subweb.
I have a view which serves content obtained from a CMS. The CMS editor has entered some content containing a relative image path <img src="/images/imga.png" />.
This works fine on the production server where the site is the root website, but not on the staging server where the site is a virtual directory under the root website
The path should be <img src="/images/imga.png" /> on the production server
and <img src="/subweb/images/imga.png" /> on the staging server.
Is it possible to use the <base> tag to resolve this image path?
<head>
<base href="http://mysite.com/subweb/" />
</head>
<html>
<body>
<img src="/images/imga.png" />
</body>
</html>
It doesn't seem to work. Can anyone explain why or if this is a workable approach? I don't want to require the content editor to have knowledge of the website deployment option (which changes between UAT and production).