Rotativa images and css works fine on localhost but is ignored in live server

Question

Working locally the css and images are loaded in pdf correctly. But as soon as i migrate code on the server, these are not loaded in the generated pdf.

I am using ViewAsPDF(). There are some partial views in my code so I cannot use Server.Map.

Would really appreciate your help.

Regards

Your question sounds like crossposting? I'd say you've sent it to the maintainer already and I'd suggest you to wait for threir response first since they will likely help you faster than Stackoverflow can. — try-catch-finally, Jul 15 '14 at 09:28

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 23 '17 at 14:55

Old post I know, but hopefully can help someone in the future.

This situation can occur when your site uses windows authentication.

You need to give access to your CSS files in the web.config as follows:

<location path="content">
    <system.web>
      <authorization>
        <allow users="*" />
      </authorization>
    </system.web>
  </location>

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 12 '14 at 21:13

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You need the Rotativa folder in the root of the web app, or if different provide the path in web.config.

answered Aug 12 '14 at 21:13

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score 0 · Answer 3 · edited Oct 28 '14 at 09:24

I had the same problem, fixed up by service account or server logon user name and password on ViewAsPdf customswitches.

eg.

return new ViewAsPdf("PdfInvoice", model)
{
    CustomSwitches = string.Format("--username \"{1}\" --password \"{2}\" --footer-center \"Page [page] of [toPage] - {0}\" --footer-font-size \"8\" ", "Receipt Number :" + model.ReceiptId.ToString(), serviceAccountUsername.ToString(), serviceAccountPassword.ToString())
};

Rotativa images and css works fine on localhost but is ignored in live server

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