ASP.NET MVC

Re: Hosting a virtual directory under MVC

jamie-jones — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:46:56 GMT

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

<?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>

<?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>

Using this in the Global.asax for the root mvc app

routes.IgnoreRoute("{folder}/{*pathInfo}", new { folder = "time" });

I am still getting the 404 error, the ignore doesn't seem to be working, can any one offer advice.

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

Re: Hosting a virtual directory under MVC

maartenba — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 06:00:27 GMT

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

No problem :-)

Re: Hosting a virtual directory under MVC

daggmano — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 21:43:42 GMT

Maartenba, I owe you a beer!

Thanks for all your help.

Re: Hosting a virtual directory under MVC

maartenba — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 13:51:44 GMT

Change:

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

To:

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

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

Re: Hosting a virtual directory under MVC

daggmano — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 06:16:55 GMT

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.

Re: Hosting a virtual directory under MVC

maartenba — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 05:50:57 GMT

Can you post your full route table here?

Re: Hosting a virtual directory under MVC

daggmano — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 01:21:22 GMT

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.

Re: Hosting a virtual directory under MVC

maartenba — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 13:58:18 GMT

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>

Hosting a virtual directory under MVC

daggmano — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 22:09:09 GMT

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.