I have simple web API project (ASP.NET MVC). I need to deploy my project in the subfolder on the IIS. For example, I have the site http://TestSite/ and I need to deploy the project to http://TestSite/MyProject/. When I did it, web API routing stopped to work. Because my ajax call is routed to the main site - http://TestSite/api/something/get.
I have tried to update map routing in the next way:
routeTemplate: "MyProject/api/{controller}/{id}",
But it doesn't affect as I want. What I am doing wrong and where can I read about some practices of web API control routing in ASP.NET MVC?
It was pretty simple. I didn't need to do anything with routing. I just needed to change url in JavaScript.
From:
$.getJSON('/api/Category', function (data) {
To:
$.getJSON('api/Category', function (data) {
Just remove '/' symbol before 'api'. Be aware.
BTW, nice article about debugging ASP.NET Web API - Debugging ASP.NET Web API with Route Debugger
EDIT: Forget that I wrote before (instead of the BTW section). This doesn't work. It works for http://TestSite/MyProject/ but doesn't work for http://TestSite/MyProject/MyController/Index. I met such kind of issue with my past ASP.NET MVC project. And I solved it by starting to use Url helper e.g: @Url.Action("MyAction","MyController"). So I needed something like for Web Api. And I found it. It is UrlHelper.HttpRouteUrl method. Now my code looks in the next way:
$.getJSON( "@Url.HttpRouteUrl("DefaultApi",new {controller = "Category"})", function (data) {
Where:
This solution doesn't look elegant but it works.