My virtual path isn't working in release mode in MVC 4

Question

My project (named Viper) seems to be working fine in debug mode on my dev PC.

The following line

<a href="@Url.Action("Index", "Setup")">Setup</a>

gives me the following link in the browser in dev, which works fine:

http://localhost/Viper/Setup

However, when I release this to the staging pc, when I look at the same link, I get this:

http://setup

Any idea why the release mode isn't capturing the virtual path?

mattematico · Accepted Answer · 2012-10-03T17:00:07.697

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why not use

@Html.ActionLink("Setup", "Index", "Setup")

if you need the relativa path you can use

@Url.Content("~/")

so in your case

<a href="@Url.Content("~/" + Url.Action("Index","Setup"))" >Setup</a>

edited Oct 03 '12 at 17:00

answered Oct 03 '12 at 16:54

mattematico

Same problem. It happens on all of my @Url.Action's as well, so nothing is navigating correctly. – Scottie Oct 03 '12 at 16:58
I tried changing it to Setup, but that just gives me the link http://setup/~/Index. – Scottie Oct 03 '12 at 17:06
ok, but did you try `Setup` ? – mattematico Oct 03 '12 at 17:07
Ah, sorry about the mis-read. That seemed to work, however, I'm not really fond of having to put "~/" in front of all my controller calls. I'm wondering if I don't have MVC 4 installed on my staging server? I'm installing that now, so we'll see if that fixes anything. – Scottie Oct 03 '12 at 17:28
great, good luck. Hope it works after installing MVC 4 on your server. – mattematico Oct 03 '12 at 17:51

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