Why the links are not working when moving a page outside the root directory?

Question

My website is in the root directory, which is /www.lebmotor.com/web/content/.

I am using this:

Dim appPath As String = HttpContext.Current.Request.ApplicationPath  
Dim directory As String = appPath & "/upload/" & Left(TableName, 2) & "/"  

to get the path and it's working very well.

But when I create a new sub-folder and copy some pages from the root directory into the sub-folder, my images are not displayed because the path has changed.

This is the link from the page in the root directory:

http://www.lebmotor.com/upload/VE/TN/6/VEListing-66-Photo1.jpg?ts=9/4/2010%201:45:17%20AM

and this is the link from the page in the sub-folder:

http://www.lebmotor.com/ar/upload/VE/TN/6/VEListing-66-Photo1.jpg?ts=9/4/2010%201:45:17%20AM

So how can I make the link in the sub folder like this:

http://www.lebmotor.com/upload/VE/TN/6/VEListing-66-Photo1.jpg?ts=9/4/2010%201:45:17%20AM

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Let me explain more about this. First, I have two directories and both of them have been set as application directories, as you can see here in the photo:

The /ar sub-folder is an application and it's a copy of the original one in the Content directory.

In the ar/App_code there is a class with the name MGImages.vp, and course it's a copy of the original one in Content/App_code. This class' job is to display photos from the Upload sub folder.

This is the code which will save the path of the photo:

Dim appPath As String = HttpContext.Current.Request.ApplicationPath  
Dim directory As String = appPath & "/upload/" & Left(TableName, 2) & "/"  
If ImageType.ToUpper = "TN" Then  
    directory += "TN/"  
ElseIf ImageType.ToUpper = "LG" Then  
    directory += "LG/"  
Else  
    directory += "OT/"  
End If  

This class is working very well in the Content directory because this will give me the right path:

http://www.lebmotor.com/upload/VE/TN/6/VEListing-66-Photo1.jpg?ts=9/4/2010%201:45:17%20AM

All photos should be saved in the Content/Upload folder for both directories' Content/ar

But in the ar directory it will give me the wrong path:

http://www.lebmotor.com/ar/upload/VE/TN/6/VEListing-66-Photo1.jpg?ts=9/4/2010%201:45:17%20AM

Where the goal is to make the path like this one:

http://www.lebmotor.com/upload/VE/TN/6/VEListing-66-Photo1.jpg?ts=9/4/2010%201:45:17%20AM

I want it to display the photos from Content/upload, not from the content/ar/upload.

Answer 1

When you first construct the image path, you can remove the ar path:

Dim directory As String = appPath & "/upload/" & Left(TableName, 2) & "/" 
directory = directory.Replace("/ar/", "")