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daggmano

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Hosting a virtual directory under MVC

Sep 11, 2008 10:09 PM|LINK

I'm setting up am ASP.NET MVC site onto a development server, and would like to run a wiki (Screwturn Wiki) as a subdirectory of the site. I have set up 'wiki' as a virtual directory in IIS7 (WinServer 2008), and added 'routes.IgnoreRoute("wiki");' to Global.asax, but when I browse to that virtual directory I get a Compilation Error as it looks for Microsoft.Web.Mvc.dll, from the web.config file of my MVC site.

Am I able to completely bypass MVC for a virtual subdirectory? (I would have thought that IIS would redirect before any application layer, but I guess not).

Thanks in advance.

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maartenba

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Sep 12, 2008 01:58 PM|LINK

Try to add the following configuration directives into the web.config of your /wiki/ folder:

<?xml version="1.0"?>

<system.web>

<pages>

</namespaces>

</pages>

</httpHandlers>

</httpModules>

</system.web>

</configuration>

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daggmano

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Sep 15, 2008 01:21 AM|LINK

That did (most of) the trick - thank you. Now I'm running into another issue. In Global.asax.cs, I have added

routes.IgnoreRoute("wiki");

or a number of variations on that ("wiki*", "wiki/", etc).

This has allowed the wiki virtual subdir to be accessed, but now all the routes generated using Html.ActionLink<>() have the form

http://localhost/wiki?controller=Cont&action=Index

Somehow "wiki" has overtaken my app!!!

Any ideas as to what is going on here?

Thanks again.

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maartenba

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Sep 15, 2008 05:50 AM|LINK

Can you post your full route table here?

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daggmano

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Re: Hosting a virtual directory under MVC

Sep 15, 2008 06:16 AM|LINK

Sure - it's pretty complex (tongue held securely in cheek...)

routes.IgnoreRoute("{resource}.axd/{*pathInfo}");
routes.IgnoreRoute("wiki/{*path}");

   routes.MapRoute(
    "Default",                                              // Route name
    "{controller}/{action}/{id}",                           // URL with parameters
    new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = "" } // Parameter defaults
   );

It's that second line - I've tried quite a few options, but either I get no access to the wiki subdir or my ActionLinks go spastic. I could hard code all links, but that sort of defeats the purpose. I'm using MVC Preview 5 (from Codeplex) if that makes difference.

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maartenba

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Re: Hosting a virtual directory under MVC

Sep 15, 2008 01:51 PM|LINK

Change:

routes.IgnoreRoute("wiki/{*path}");

To:

routes.IgnoreRoute("{*path}", new { path = @"wiki\/(.*)" });

This forces the path to be something starting with wiki/.

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daggmano

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Re: Hosting a virtual directory under MVC

Sep 15, 2008 09:43 PM|LINK

Maartenba, I owe you a beer!

Thanks for all your help.

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maartenba

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Sep 16, 2008 06:00 AM|LINK

Guess that beer will be warm before it arrives :-(

No problem :-)

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Oct 30, 2009 06:46 PM|LINK

I am having this issue. I am trying to install the time tracking starter on a virtual directory with a MVC app on the root.

I have called the virtual directory Time.

Below is the web.config from the time app

<div style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow: hidden;" id="_mcePaste"><?xml version="1.0"?></div> <div style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow: hidden;" id="_mcePaste"><configuration xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/.NetConfiguration/v2.0"></div> <div style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow: hidden;" id="_mcePaste"> <connectionStrings></div> <div style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow: hidden;" id="_mcePaste"> <add name="aspnet_staterKits_TimeTracker" connectionString="Server=208.78.24.53,14333;Database=databaseName;Uid=jamiejon;Password=Fia84grapu;User Instance=true" /></div> <div style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow: hidden;" id="_mcePaste"> <remove name="LocalSqlServer"/></div> <div style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow: hidden;" id="_mcePaste"> <add name="LocalSqlServer" connectionString="Data Source=.\SQLExpress;Integrated Security=True;AttachDBFilename=|DataDirectory|TimeTracker.mdf;User Instance=true" /></div> <div style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow: hidden;" id="_mcePaste"> </connectionStrings></div> <div style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow: hidden;" id="_mcePaste"> <location path="Time" inheritInChildApplications="false"></div> <div style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow: hidden;" id="_mcePaste"></div> <div style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow: hidden;" id="_mcePaste"> <system.web></div> <div style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow: hidden;" id="_mcePaste"> <pages></div> <div style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow: hidden;" id="_mcePaste"> <namespaces></div> <div style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow: hidden;" id="_mcePaste"></div> <div style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow: hidden;" id="_mcePaste"> <remove namespace="System.Web.Mvc"/></div> <div style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow: hidden;" id="_mcePaste"> <remove namespace="System.Web.Mvc.Ajax"/></div> <div style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow: hidden;" id="_mcePaste"></div> <div style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow: hidden;" id="_mcePaste"> <remove namespace="Microsoft.Web.Mvc"/></div> <div style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow: hidden;" id="_mcePaste"> <remove namespace="System.Web.Routing"/></div> <div style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow: hidden;" id="_mcePaste"></div> <div style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow: hidden;" id="_mcePaste"> </namespaces></div> <div style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow: hidden;" id="_mcePaste"> </pages></div> <div style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow: hidden;" id="_mcePaste"> <siteMap defaultProvider="AspNetXmlSiteMapProvider" enabled="true"></div> <div style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow: hidden;" id="_mcePaste"> <providers></div> <div style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow: hidden;" id="_mcePaste"> <clear /></div> <div style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow: hidden;" id="_mcePaste"> <add name="AspNetXmlSiteMapProvider"</div> <div style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow: hidden;" id="_mcePaste"> type="System.Web.XmlSiteMapProvider, System.Web, Version=2.0.3600.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a"</div> <div style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow: hidden;" id="_mcePaste"> siteMapFile="web.sitemap"</div> <div style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow: hidden;" id="_mcePaste"> securityTrimmingEnabled="true" /></div> <div style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow: hidden;" id="_mcePaste"> </providers></div> <div style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow: hidden;" id="_mcePaste"> </siteMap></div> <div style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow: hidden;" id="_mcePaste"> <authentication mode="Forms"></div> <div style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow: hidden;" id="_mcePaste"> <forms loginUrl="~/TimeTracker/login.aspx"/></div> <div style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow: hidden;" id="_mcePaste"> </authentication></div> <div style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow: hidden;" id="_mcePaste"> <compilation debug="false" /></div> <div style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow: hidden;" id="_mcePaste"> <customErrors mode="Off"/></div> <div style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow: hidden;" id="_mcePaste"> <machineKey decryptionKey="AutoGenerate,IsolateApps"/></div> <div style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow: hidden;" id="_mcePaste"> <roleManager enabled="true" ></div> <div style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow: hidden;" id="_mcePaste"> </roleManager></div> <div style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow: hidden;" id="_mcePaste"> <httpHandlers></div> <div style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow: hidden;" id="_mcePaste"></div> <div style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow: hidden;" id="_mcePaste"> <remove verb="*" path="*.mvc" /></div> <div style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow: hidden;" id="_mcePaste"> </httpHandlers></div> <div style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow: hidden;" id="_mcePaste"> <httpModules></div> <div style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow: hidden;" id="_mcePaste"> <remove name="UrlRoutingModule" /></div> <div style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow: hidden;" id="_mcePaste"> </httpModules></div> <div style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow: hidden;" id="_mcePaste"> </system.web></div> <div style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow: hidden;" id="_mcePaste"></location></div> <div style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow: hidden;" id="_mcePaste"></configuration></div> <div></div>

<?xml version="1.0"?>

</connectionStrings>

<system.web>

<pages>

</namespaces>

</pages>

<add name="AspNetXmlSiteMapProvider"

type="System.Web.XmlSiteMapProvider, System.Web, Version=2.0.3600.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a"

siteMapFile="web.sitemap"

securityTrimmingEnabled="true" />

</providers>

</siteMap>

</authentication>

</roleManager>

</httpHandlers>

</httpModules>

</system.web>

</location>

</configuration>

<div>
</div><div>
</div><div>Using this in the Global.asax for the root mvc app</div><div>
</div><div>routes.IgnoreRoute("{folder}/{*pathInfo}", new { folder = "time" });</div><div>
</div><div>I am still getting the 404 error, the ignore doesn't seem to be working, can any one offer advice.</div><div>
</div><div>

Requested URL	http://myurl:80/Time/Account/LogOn?ReturnUrl=%2fTime%2fTimeTracker%2fTimeEntry.aspx
Physical Path	C:\HostingSpaces\ myusername\time\wwwroot\Account\LogOn

</div>

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