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I have set IIS 10 (win 11) to test a local site where paths are relative to site root, e.g. /folder/file.html
When I open the home page in a browser, located at http://localhost/asmatron/ and click a link in there, structured like
<a href="/folder/file.html">a page</a>
I get a 404 error because the url IIS is looking for is http://localhost/folder/file.html
instead of http://localhost/asmatron/folder/file.html
Am I missing some setting in IIS or what?
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Usually, the root site will not be localhost/asmatron, If you want the link of your a tag to be http://localhost/asmatron/folder/file.html, then you can use outbound rules.
<outboundRules>
<rule name="Test" preCondition="IsHTML">
<match filterByTags="A" pattern="^/(.*)/(.*)$" />
<action type="Rewrite" value="/asmatron/{R:1}/{R:2}" />
</rule>
<preConditions>
<preCondition name="IsHTML">
<add input="{RESPONSE_CONTENT_TYPE}" pattern="^text/html" />
</outboundRules>
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That is how urls work. If they start with a “/“ then they are from the root, if not they are relative. The browser does this.
Does that mean that my localsite's root is localhost and not localhost/asmatron?