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Water Cooler v2
Water Cooler v2

Reputation: 33850

The relative virtual path is not allowed here

In my controller action, I have the following code:

...more code

if (...)
{
    // create a site user
    await this.CreateUserAndSignHimInAsync(UserType.SiteUser, model);

    var landingPageUrl = IdentityManager.GetLandingPageUrl(model.Email);

    return Redirect(landingPageUrl);
}

...more code

The landingPageUrl is a url that looks like so: "~/Journal/Search".

At the return Redirect line, I get an exception that says:

The relative virtual path '~Journal/Search' is not allowed here.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 7076

Answers (1)

Water Cooler v2
Water Cooler v2

Reputation: 33850

The problem with my code was that the URL that I was trying to redirect to, as reported by the exception message, was an ill-formed ~Journal/Search instead of ~/JournalSearch.

Also, I discovered that if you have an ASP.NET virtual relative URL like "~/Journal/Search" and you would like to turn it into an absolute Url, you can call the UrlHelper.GenerateContentUrl static method like so:

var url= UrlHelper.GenerateContentUrl("~/Journal/Search", 
         Request.RequestContext.HttpContext);

Upvotes: 1

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