By putting the name of your application directory in the global.asax.vb 
file, you'll be able to display "absolute" path for your application

Ex: in global.asax.vb
  Application.Add("appDirectoryName","/VirtualDirectory")

In any aspx page juste user the application("appDirectoryName") in prefix 
of any absolute path you wanna use

Ex:
  <img src='<%=Application("appDirectoryName")%>/imagesdir/image1.jpg'>


Jonathan

> I have a website set up as follows:

> DomainRoot/VirtualDirectory

> The domain root resembles: http://mydomain.com

> The virtualdirectory is set up to be the root of an asp.net application.

> so: http://mydomain.com/VirtualDirectory is the root of my asp.net 
a> pplication.

> I am using .net to generate a javascript menu system. Thus clicking a 
link 
t> o: pagename.aspx takes me to a page in the current directory. However, 
I 
h> ave a directory structure (don't we all)

> domainRoot/VirtualDirectory/SubDirectory1
d> omainRoot/VirtualDirectory/SubDirectory2
e> tc.

> From SubDirectory1 to get to a page in subdirectory 2 I must go up one 
l> evel and then down into Subdirectory2, but from VirtualDirectory I must 
g> o down into Subdirectory.

> To make this work I expect I can use '/' to represent 'go to the 
a> pplication root'. Then I just put the path from the root to the place I 
w> ant to go and it is always the same.

> Instead of going to the application root (VirtualDirectory) I go to the 
D> omainRoot Directory.

> This would be fine if the code was not meant to be portable. I need to 
be 
a> ble to move the code to other servers, other domains etc. Sometimes it 
m> ay be in a virtual directory, sometimes it may be in the web-root 
d> irectory. I thought '/' would do this. It doesn't.

> I tried '~' but that is not recognized by browsers and since I am 
g> enerating a string it just gets passed as '~'.

> How can I configure my server or application to only go to the root of 
the 
a> pp? Not the root of the web?