Absolute/Relative URLs in user controls

[Silo4]

Hi,

I have an ASP.NET 1.1 website with as ASCX control for the header which includes a link to a page. Why is it that when i upload my site, i have to manually change the absolute URL paths?

After much messing i've discovered that locally they have to be...

/MyWeb/MyPage.aspx

but on the web they need to be just...

/MyPage.aspx

I have looked all over the net for an answer to this but found very little. Neither of these suggestions seems to work...

~/MyPage.aspx

or

<%ResolveUrl("~/MyPage")%>"

Does anyone know of a common method that would work both locally and on the host server? Surely I don't have to manually change my code every time i want to upload, then back again when i want to test locally?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Silo4

 

[Isadore]

Sib4: From my experience if you are buried withing subfolders 1 or 2 deep, for example, the following works for me:

"../Folder1/Folder2/MyPage.aspx"

..or..

"./Folder1/Mypage.aspx"

But this has been my experience. Give that a try and see what you come up with.

 

[Silo4]

Cheers for that, but the problem is that the ASCX control thinks of itself as being located in the same folder as the page it is attached to. So if I use a relative url it will work for any pages in the same folder but not for pages in other folders. For Example...

"../Folder1/MyPage.aspx"

will work from "../Folder2/TestPage.aspx"

but will not work from "../Folder2/Folder3/TestPage.aspx"

because it is then looking for "../Folder2/Folder1/MyPage.aspx"

Does that make sense?

I guess it's because Visual Studio wants to refer to the IIS virtual directory, but i can't believe there isn't a way round it. It's so frustrating.

Any other ideas?

 

[Isadore]

Silo4: the answer to this is probably straightforward. Did you try using:

Server.MapPath("MyPage.aspx;")

..actually this does work but something strikes me it may not be what we're after here; just a shot in the dark as it were.

 

[Isadore]

..or how about

"~/MyPage.aspx"

..w/o the ResolveUrl tag..

 

[Silo4]

Cheers again for the suggestions, i have tried for another hour to figure something out but nothing works both remotely and local. I give up, I'll have to do it manually.

Thanks for your help.

I can't believe no-one else seems to have this problem!

 

[Isadore]

Silo4: I can relate. I have burnt untold precious hours only in the end to discover it was nothing more complicated then ABC - etc, I suppose that is why they call it a learning process.

Here's a thought. Sometimes, when I hit a dead end like you have I tend to go back and see if it wasn't the original design that was to blame - in this case perhaps not -- but there are many out there who should be able to nail this; so hang in there. We'll bump this thread up with suggestions till we nail it - without of course making ourselves a nuisance in the process. But a good question -- perhaps a full link is the answer here - but I think you are right; it is peculiar to the "ascx" page itself.