Relative paths are not working when I publish MVC 5 website?

Question

In my MVC5 Project, I have used Jquery and to use Controller Actions, I used relative path. Here is a sample:-

 $("#divTree").jstree({
        'core': {
            'data': {
                "url": "/Customer/GetList",
                "dataType": "json"
            },
            "check_callback": true
        },
        "plugins": ["contextmenu", "dnd", "json_data"]
    });

I am also using relative paths in jquery.ajax() method. All relative paths are working in visual studio. But when I publish and host it in IIS, relative paths are not working.

In my asp.net web forms projects I am either using ReloveUrl() or ~.

How should i handle it in MVC 5 project.?

It is working since MVC 4. check this link http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22452518/relative-path-tilde-not-working-in-asp-net-mvc-4 — Ala, Jun 16 '15 at 14:04
check this link http://beletsky.net/2012/04/new-in-aspnet-mvc4-razor-changes.html — Ala, Jun 17 '15 at 06:37

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 16 '15 at 13:58

Try the following:

$("#divTree").jstree({
        'core': {
            'data': {
                "url": "~/Customer/GetList",
                "dataType": "json"
            },
            "check_callback": true
        },
        "plugins": ["contextmenu", "dnd", "json_data"]
    });

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 16 '15 at 13:59

You should consider not hard coding the URLs in MVC apps and using the provided helpers instead. If the script is within a view, you can use @Url.Action() to generate the URL. If not, you can still pass it in as a param to the JS in some way or another.

$("#divTree").jstree({
    'core': {
        'data': {
            "url": '@Url.Action("Customer", "GetList")',
            "dataType": "json"
        },
        "check_callback": true
    },
    "plugins": ["contextmenu", "dnd", "json_data"]
});

Yes, most likely just by wrapping it with a function and passing it in — Brad C, Jun 16 '15 at 15:17

Relative paths are not working when I publish MVC 5 website?

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