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Danny
Danny

Reputation: 2821

Url.Content on Azure

I have an ASP.NET MVC 2 application that has page with a link to a pdf file

<a href="<%= Url.Content("~/Downloads/test1.pdf") %>">test1</a>

Downloads directory is at MVCApplication1/Downloads

This works fine locally and on ISS, but returns a page not found when uploaded to Azure.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 733

Answers (3)

Danny
Danny

Reputation: 2821

In visualstudio in the pdf properties had to change the Build Action to Content and Copy to Output Dir to Copy always for this to work with Azure

Upvotes: 2

Taylor Bird
Taylor Bird

Reputation: 8017

Check the path that is being emitted in the HTML. Its likely relative to the Azure datacenter/cluster, and is meaningless to your client if your client is outside Azure.

If you see something like "http://RD1204900029029/Downloads/test1.pdf", thats your issue. You'll need to emit the actual path using application logic to account for some of the magic the load-balancer does on your behalf.

Best way to use URL information provided by the request itself. I'm not an ASP.NET master by any means, so there may be a cleaner way to do this (similar to Url.Content) but this will work

Try

HttpContext.Current.Request.Url.Host

so

<%
    var host = System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Request.Url.Host;
%>

<a href="<%= host + "/Downloads/test1.pdf" %>">test1</a>

Upvotes: 2

Stuart
Stuart

Reputation: 66882

This is a guess...

But I think that perhaps the Azure IIS instance does not include PDF as a known MIME type.

To adjust for this try adding the mime type to your app's web.config file: http://blogs.iis.net/bills/archive/2008/03/25/how-to-add-mime-types-with-iis7-web-config.aspx

If this still doesn't work, then maybe consider:

  • changing the file extension
  • moving the PDF to Blob storage - in theory it should be more efficient to serve this static content direct from Blob storage
  • adding a dynamic proxy to your app for this file (not ideal!)

Upvotes: 1

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