I added this to my web.config, but I'm still getting the folder added on postback. Like when I get redirected to a login page or submit an update to the site through my administration area.

Thanks, Julian. I've been spinning my wheels trying to get that to work without getting my hands dirty tweaking the MVC source code. I dropped in your rewrite rule, and it worked perfectly. Very glad that I can leave my action links as-is.

Cheers!

Eric

I´ve the same problem, but I´m using Windows 2003 Server and IIS 6, anyone can help to solve this issue ?

I am having the same problem with my godaddy hosting with asp.net mvc 3 repeating the virtual directory path in the url. But the rewrite rule did not solve the problem. Is this rewrite rule still working for you? I noticed your blog url is repeating the folder name "blog" twice.

All: Just a quick comment to say I have not implemented this myself on this blog. The main reason is that I'm still running IIS6 on my hosting; I haven't upgraded to IIS7 yet. Why? Dunno really, apart from the fact it'll involve downtime and I have to ask support for the upgrade (if I recollect the steps correctly). So, as I said above, I was just making sure this particular article didn't disappear along with the blog that spawned it.

Another reason is that I'm playing around with ASP.NET MVC3, Razor, and Orchard with a view to migrating the content on this blog to something new. But I want to make sure I don't lose anything by doing so.

Cheers, Julian

Julian,

Thanks for keeping this post alive. CodeBeater disappeared because I just got sick of trying to work with things on Linux (it was a Wordpress blog). I didn't save anything before I killed it but it's back again and I've re-added this post with a small update that talks about something that still doesn't work after this fix.

Thanks again

Forgot to include a link to the post: www.codebeater.com/.../Solution-for-AS

CodeBeater (aka, Jeff): Glad to hear you've brought the site back up and glad that I was able to help kick it off a little by saving this post. Good luck!

Cheers, Julian

works like a charm, spent 2+days looking for solution, trying different thing, got no help from GODADsters...

where can i read more on this?

works great!

It looks like this nifty little rewrite rule works because of this function examining the HTTPXORIGINAL_URL server var in this function System.Web.Mvc.PathHelpers:

private static string GenerateClientUrlInternal(HttpContextBase httpContext, string contentPath)
{
  if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(contentPath))
  {
    return contentPath;
    }

  if (contentPath[0] == "~")
  { 
    string virtualPath = VirtualPathUtility.ToAbsolute(contentPath, httpContext.Request.ApplicationPath);
    string str2 = httpContext.Response.ApplyAppPathModifier(virtualPath);
    return GenerateClientUrlInternal(httpContext, str2);
  }

    NameValueCollection serverVariables = httpContext.Request.ServerVariables;
  if ((serverVariables == null) || (serverVariables["HTTP_X_ORIGINAL_URL"] == null))
  {
    return contentPath;
  }

  string relativePath = MakeRelative(httpContext.Request.Path, contentPath);

  return MakeAbsolute(httpContext.Request.RawUrl, relativePath);
}

adding this to my config file helped me

<modules runallmanagedmodulesforallrequests="true"></modules>

or

<modules runallmanagedmodulesforallrequests="true" />

The above said solution is not working for asp.net 4.0.

But Can any one help me how to route url without using mvc and for every file i want to write one url algorithm in web.config or elsewhere ...so that my file can come like www.example.com/about instead of www.example.com/about.aspx..

plz plz frnd help me

This doesn't appear to be working any more. Tried it on my go daddy hosting. IIS7.0 ASP.NET 4.0 MVC 3 app. still getting mysite.com/myfolder/Student instead of subsite.mysite.com/Student (which actually does work by the way), but all of the URL.Content and HTML.ActionLink references are using the full path.

This is not working now.. I have posted this issue in codeplex blogengine forum too here > blogengine.codeplex.com/.../392425

Hi there,

thanks for the post. I hosted purely an asp.net 4.0 web site and facing the same issue.

I have a domain DomainName.com and hosted the site to HVAC.DomainName.com where HVAC is a sub domain. THe site is not able to find the pages

all the route entries has been added like this:

routes.MapPageRoute("MaterialDetail", "Materials/Detail/{MaterialID}", "~/Materials/Detail.aspx");
routes.MapPageRoute("ClientDetail", "Clients/Detail/{ClientID}", "~/Clients/Detail.aspx");

but not working.

what to do.

THis is not mvc but pure asp.net

Varun Sharma, I had the same problem with routing in asp webforms in godaddy shared host, the problem has to due with FriendlyUrlSettings with AutoRedirectMode = RedirectMode.Permanent. Commented this, that came with c# project template and now routing works.

Great, this worked in my site like a charm after searching around in various websites for a solution.

Finnally it works!!! Using the rewrite technique explained in the post, and this code, finnally works in all conditions:

protected void Application_BeginRequest() { #region Godaddy shared host fix - Detect VDIR in url and remove

        //verified that HTTP_X_ORIGINAL_URL keeps the original url (withoud domain) before url rewrite module,
        //that way can check if the virtual directory name is at start, and remove it.
        if (Request.ServerVariables.AllKeys.Contains("HTTP_X_ORIGINAL_URL"))
        {
            var origUrl = Request.ServerVariables["HTTP_X_ORIGINAL_URL"];
            var matchVdir = "/" + Myproj.Core.Constants.Environment.HostingVirtualDirectoryName + "/";

            if (origUrl.StartsWith(matchVdir))
            {
                var urlFix = Request.Url.GetLeftPart(UriPartial.Authority) + "/" + origUrl.Remove(0, matchVdir.Length);
                log.Info("3. Application_BeginRequest fix vdir, url: " + urlFix);
                Response.RedirectPermanent(urlFix);
            }
        }
        #endregion
    }