So we've got a project that our tutorial software exports as an HTML project. (Root has an index.html file, folders for js, css, etc)
Our support portal with Identity account management runs on ASP.NET MVC.
What I'd like is for the HTML project to be accessible, but you must login first.
I've gone about it two ways, unsuccessful both times:
I can put the HTML project in a static folder in the root of the ASP project. This way I can access it as domain.com/Test/Course/index.html. Everything works fine here, js and css are loaded properly, but it is not password protected.
I can put it in the App_Data folder, create a route to an action with the [Authorize] parameter that returns a FileResult, grabbing from the App_Data folder. This locks, and on login loads the index.html file, but all of the html files resources (accompanying js and css files) fail to load because the paths are wrong. It's pulling from App_Data, but index.html is now somewhere else, away from it's included js and css folders.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
You'll want to take a look at these two questions:
How to do Forms Authentication on purely HTML pages using ASP.NET?
https://serverfault.com/questions/509879/protecting-static-content-with-forms-authentication-under-iis8
Basically - ASP.NET doesn't by default handle .html content because it's much faster to have IIS handle it directly. You need to configure it correctly to have it apply to .html files so that it can then apply its authentication model.
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I started a new project in VS 2017 and created a ASP.NET Core 2.0 web application (Model View Controller). Then I've changed the conent of the _Layout.cshtml to the interface I want to use (included #Renderbody etc.) and included all the static content it requires in the wwwroot and save and Ctrl+F5 and the layout shows with all the correct formatting and functionality. No problem so far:
However from this point forward none of the static content files of the _Layout shows in any other view. So for example if I visit any of the following URLS:
http://localhost:52786/home/
http://localhost:52786/home/index
http://localhost:52786/home/about
http://localhost:52786/home/contact
I see this:
Startup.cs already has app.UseStaticFiles() in Configure()
So it sounds like you may have your HTML body content in the wrong place. With ASP.NET MVC &ASP.NET Core MVC, the HTML for each page is served up from the /Views directory (by the Home controller by default), not from the /wwwroot, and it is C# HTML (.cshtml) just like the _Layout.cshtml file. Things like images, static javascript etc. are what's typically located in the /wwwroot directory as these are the parts of your website that are client side instead of server-side.
Try replicating your index, about and contact HTML content as .cshtml files under the /Views/Home directory, replacing whatever's there in the template, except for #{ViewData["Title"] = "Home";} located at the top. The layout template should then serve these as the body content (where #renderbody... is in _Layout.cshtml).
If this still doesn't work I'll need a bit more info about what you've changed from the default template. Hope this helps!
Thank you James for your response. I figured it out and it's actually a noob mistake which I'm posting so that other new developers don't get caught in it.
When you want to reference the content in the wwwroot folder if you reference them without "~/" before the name of the directory it works for the _Layout page which fooled me to think it should work for other parts of the application but you should include "~/" before the folder names explicitly otherwise the static files will be un reachable.
I have two websites in IIS under default web site. Lets say "Website1" page gives call to "webiste2" which return some content. Entry URL of website2 is http://domainname/websitename/controller/action this action return html(index.html). structure of website2 is as bellow.
Website
Folder(websitename)
........Folder A(folder_{id}(id is dynamically generated) is under folder A)
..............Folder_{id} --> this folder contains files with many extensions
........Index.html->this file has references to above folderA &subfolders files
........Web.config
Now i want to configure route such a way that that serve all types of files extensions for url like below.
websitename/folder A/filename.abc
websitename/Folder A/folder_1/filename.xy
websitename/folder A/Folder_1/filename.mp3
websitename/folder A/Folder_1/filename.png
There can be thousands folder under folder A. so the folder_1 value can be changed from folder_1 to folder_2, folder_3 .............. folder_1000 or as many folders.
I want generic rout to serve all dynamically generated folders and its files.
There are many files with different extensions under these dynamically created folder or we can see its as package of different files like .mp3, ,jpg, .swf, .js...
Please guide me to write rout to achieve above. Or you can provide links so that i can go through.
Simply, don't. Static files are supposed to be served directly by IIS. By default, in MVC, anything that has an extension (.*) is handled by IIS, and MVC is never even involved. If you've customized something, I'd recommend undoing that.
Looking for suggestions on how to host static files through an MVC app.
I have an MVC SPA (basically a bunch of static html, js and img files). I want users to be able to access these static files only after they have logged into my MVC application. I am running on a windows server platform, using IIS.
Currently I am doing this:
RouteTable.Routes.IgnoreRoute("AngularApp/{*path}"); //to serve up angular files from AngularApp folder
However this has a number of problems.
I don't really want to ignore the route, I want the MVC controller to check if the user has permissions (like my other controllers do), if not redirect to login page and if so, then instead of sending them to a view, allow them to load any files in a particular folder or subfolders. But the folders these files load from need to be a different path than the route URL requested. For example I don't want users to have to go to mysite.com/angularseedapp/deploy/app/mypage.html but rather if they request mysite.com/a/mypage.html I want it to serve up the file from there.
This seems simply a matter of being able to have MVC redirect and fetch files from a different folder, but I have no idea how to do this.
Could someone knowledgeable about MVC please give me a step by step simple way to do this? When I try to fetch files outside the views folder this seemingly simple task results in various permissions and other kinds of errors because I don't know how to do it correctly.
Thanks!
P.S. To clarify, I know how to get my controller to check permissions and redirect, to any single file in the views folder, but how do I do it for a whole folder of files and directories in a higher level folder? I want to map the route, have it go to a controller, then instead of going to a view I want it to take me to static files. I suspect there is some way to use maproute() in global.asax to help me do this but I do not have a lot of experience with that.
I may be oversimplifying but I usually select the application in IIS Manager and then select Mime Types, they add mappings for whatever types you want to map statically. I've done this for HTML and JSON files before and it worked fine. Use type = text/javascript or application/json etc.
I am creating an MVC application that will effectively allow a user to upload a number of Themes to the site.
Each theme they upload will have a _Layout.cshtml file, along with css files and images.
These will all be stored in locations mapped to the userId of the person creating the uploads, i.e.:
Users/Themes/32-bit-guid/_Layout.cshtml
Users/Themes/32-bit-guid/css
Users/Themes/32-bit-guid/images
The problem I have, is that although the templates are uploaded and I can select any of the templates (which are then applied to the current logged in user), the CSS files are ignored, along with the images.
If I try to browse to the path Users/Themes/32-bit-guid/css/screen.css which I know exists, I get a resource cannot be found error.
I have had a look at creating custom view engines, ignoring routes and everything, but I am getting no where.
Has anyone experienced this before and can they point me in the right direction please?
Views in MVC require a Web.config, all I did to get the themes working was copy the default web.config file from any Views folder and put it in the same directory as my Layout.cshtml
I will like add conventional HTML page under VIEWS folder (in ASp.NET MVC) page.
I have added the route exceptions as mentioned below.
routes.IgnoreRoute("{resource}.htm/{*pathInfo}")
routes.IgnoreRoute("{resource}.html/{*pathInfo}")
Although it does work when I put the html files out of VIEWS folder but I get Page not found 404 when I put those in VIEWS folder. I am also unable to browse the VIEWS folder by setting directory browsing option in IIS.
Please help me on HOW to access HTML file from VIEWS folder.
I think that it's a mistake to mix your HTML content with your views. I'd suggest that you create a separate static folder under Content and put your HTML there. You can create an analogous directory structure to your view structure if necessary for management. Then you don't need to do anything special in order to able to reference the files. You can even, then, open them up to editing with Contribute, etc. by people who are allowed to modify static content.
+-Content
+-Images
+-Static
+-Account
+-privacy.html
+-refunds.html
+-Styles
Usage:
<a href='<%= Url.Content( "~/Content/Static/Account/privacy.html" ) %>'>Privacy Policy</a>
The default Views folder has an Web.config file that explicitly gives 404 errors for all requests. You just need to edit and enable for HTML files (or all files, but then people might snoop).