HttpContext.Current.Request.ApplicationPath is empty on production

Question

On my development server HttpContext.Current.Request.ApplicationPath correctly returns the path, but on production it returns empty.

Why woudld this be?

I am using this to build URL's, and now in production a link doesn't work as it looks like:

http://section/page1.aspx

but it should be:

https://www.example.sub.com/section/page1.aspx

What could be causing this?

Answer 1

The ApplicationPath property returns the path to the folder where the application is, and it doesn't include the domain name.

I imagine that you have put the application in a folder with the same name as the domain name in your development server. The property then returns the name of the folder, not the actual domain.