Relative URLs

member4953 · May 15th, 2009, 11:52 AM

Imar,

I am getting an error message for a project I am working on indicating that the following page cannot be found:

Code:


The resource cannot be found
/~/Setup Facility Department/Reserve User ID.aspx

The link for the page is coded as:

Code:

<a href="~/Setup Facility Department/Reserve User ID.aspx">Setup New Facility or Department</a>

I have the virtual path for the project set to "/".

ASP.NET seems to be adding an additional "/" to the address.

I thought I had followed the steps in the first part of "Chapter 7: Navigation".

Any thoughts?

Thanks.

Thomas

Imar · May 15th, 2009, 12:26 PM

Hi Thomas,

Take a look at this:

<a href="~/Setup Facility Department/Reserve User ID.aspx">Setup New Facility or Department</a>

You're using the ~ syntax in a client side control which is not allowed. Either remove the ~ or add a runat="server" attribute to the link.

Hope this helps,

Imar

member4953 · May 15th, 2009, 01:46 PM

Imar,

when I do that I get:

Code:

arser Error          body {font-family:"Verdana";font-weight:normal;font-size: .7em;color:black;}           p {font-family:"Verdana";font-weight:normal;color:black;margin-top: -5px}          b {font-family:"Verdana";font-weight:bold;color:black;margin-top: -5px}          H1 { font-family:"Verdana";font-weight:normal;font-size:18pt;color:red }          H2 { font-family:"Verdana";font-weight:normal;font-size:14pt;color:maroon }          pre {font-family:"Lucida Console";font-size: .9em}          .marker {font-weight: bold; color: black;text-decoration: none;}          .version {color: gray;}          .error {margin-bottom: 10px;}          .expandable { text-decoration:underline; font-weight:bold; color:navy; cursor:hand; }         Parser Error 

Description:  An error occurred during the parsing of a resource required to service this  request. Please review the following specific parse error details and modify  your source file appropriately. 

Parser Error Message: The file  '/Setup Facility Department/Reserve_User_ID.aspx.cs' does not exist.

I do not remember this being an issue in the book. Perhaps I just do not remember.

Do the spaces in the directory name "Setup Facility Department" make a difference?

Thomas

member4953 · May 15th, 2009, 03:08 PM

Imar,

I fixed it. The spaces in the directory name in the aspx and cs file names were the problem. I removed spaces and used an asp:HyperLink and was able to do wonderful things!

Thomas

Imar · May 15th, 2009, 04:40 PM

Excellent; glad it's working...

Spaces in URLs are never a good idea; not for .NET pages and not for other content....

Imar