ASP MVC - Bundles creating directory path instead of file path

Question

I have this:

bundles.Add(new StyleBundle("~/Content/Styles/Default").Include("~/Content/Styles/Default/Site.css"));

And it creates this:

<link href="/Content/Styles/Default?v=HG5hShy6_NaqI7SUDWQuc6zijexRxZooKF4ayIgK5tY1" rel="stylesheet">

Now, i enabled directory browsing on my webserver, and when I click that style path, it moves me to a directory, and not to a file! Why?

Update: I still did not manage to solve that question, all i get when i go on the link http://myserver/Content/Styles/Default?v=HG5hShy6_NaqI7SUDWQuc6zijexRxZooKF4ayIgK5tY1 is a list of files (like on a ftp)

Try this instead **bundles.Add(new StyleBundle("~/Content/Styles/Default/Site.css")** — Kundan Singh Chouhan, Feb 24 '13 at 05:02
@Kundan Singh Chouhan: I just tried your solution, and all i got from that is: ``. What is going on... — ojek, Feb 24 '13 at 17:00

score 9 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 24 '13 at 05:55

First take a look at this article

Bundling is a new feature in ASP.NET 4.5 that makes it easy to combine or bundle multiple files into a single file. You can create CSS, JavaScript and other bundles. Fewer files means fewer HTTP requests and that can improve first page load performance.

The request

http://localhost/MvcBM_time/bundles/AllMyScripts?v=r0sLDicvP58AIXN_mc3QdyVvVj5euZNzdsa2N1PKvb81

is for the bundle AllMyScripts and contains a query string pair v=r0sLDicvP58AIXN_mc3QdyVvVj5euZNzdsa2N1PKvb81.

The query string v has a value token that is a unique identifier used for caching. As long as the bundle doesn't change, the ASP.NET application will request the AllMyScripts bundle using this token. If any file in the bundle changes, the ASP.NET optimization framework will generate a new token, guaranteeing that browser requests for the bundle will get the latest bundle

This is how to add directory with files

bundles.Add(new StyleBundle("~/jQueryUI/themes/baseAll")
    .IncludeDirectory("~/Content/themes/base", "*.css"));

This is how to add multiple files:

bundles.Add(new StyleBundle("~/Content/themes/base/css").Include(
          "~/Content/themes/base/jquery.ui.core.css",
          "~/Content/themes/base/jquery.ui.resizable.css",
          "~/Content/themes/base/jquery.ui.selectable.css",
          "~/Content/themes/base/jquery.ui.accordion.css",
          "~/Content/themes/base/jquery.ui.autocomplete.css",
          "~/Content/themes/base/jquery.ui.button.css",
          "~/Content/themes/base/jquery.ui.dialog.css",
          "~/Content/themes/base/jquery.ui.slider.css",
          "~/Content/themes/base/jquery.ui.tabs.css",
          "~/Content/themes/base/jquery.ui.datepicker.css",
          "~/Content/themes/base/jquery.ui.progressbar.css",
          "~/Content/themes/base/jquery.ui.theme.css"));

Well, and I have added a file, and it is pointing to a directory! :/ — ojek, Feb 24 '13 at 14:09

score 4 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:34

This is an old question, but Google pointed me here when I was searching for a solution so I thought I would add what worked for me.

I had the same problem as you and ran across this other question that I believe is the same:

MVC4 - Bundling does not work when optimizations are set to true

I imagine the problem is you putting the bundle at a virtual URL that actually exists, but is a directory.

Changing the bundle path fixed the problem I was having.

ASP MVC - Bundles creating directory path instead of file path

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