bundle and minification return 404

Question

1. Package System.Web.Optimizationhas Been Installed

2. bundle has been configured as below

   using System.Web.Optimization;
   public class BundleConfig
   {
       public static void RegisterBundles(BundleCollection bundles)
       {
           bundles.Add(new ScriptBundle("~/Content/themes/base/js").Include("~/Scripts/Site.js"));
           bundles.Add(new StyleBundle("~/Content/themes/base/css").Include("~/Content/Site.css"));
   
       }
   }
   

3. add this to Layout.cshtml

   @System.Web.Optimization.Scripts.Render("~/Content/themes/base/js")
   @System.Web.Optimization.Styles.Render("~/Content/themes/base/css")
   

css minified succesfully but return 404 error for js file ?

Answer 1

Make sure that your virtual path for your bundle Content/themes/base/js does not relate to a real path. Generally we use ~/bundles in our virtual path for this reason.

Example

public static void RegisterBundles(BundleCollection bundles)
{
    bundles.Add(new ScriptBundle("~/bundles/base/js").Include("~/Scripts/Site.js"));
    bundles.Add(new StyleBundle("~/bundles/base/css").Include("~/Content/Site.css"));

}