Rewriting, relative paths and themes

[Guest]

I have a problem that I can see the reason for but cannot figure out a
solution.

I am using a simple URL rewriter to map www.me.com/1/2/3/4/product.aspx to
www.me.com/product?filter=1/2/3/4 to make my site Google-friendly. The site
dynamically adopts the correct master pages and themes according to a host
header-based query in SQL 2005 and via a custom sqlsitemapdatasource
automagically configures a breadcrumb and menus, all of which work
wonderfully.
However the theme's stylesheet is always declared in the page as a relative
reference (e.g. "Themes/me.com/stylesheet.css") which means that for the
rewritten rule the browser client will be looking for
"www.me.com/1/2/3/4/Themes/me.com/stylesheet.css". Does anybody have a way
of specifying that this be output as a url relative to root
("~/blah/blah/...") as I don't want to have to do a replace on render because
of the hit per page that would incur.

Ta!!

 

[Stefano]

Hi,

I think the only way to solve this problem is to put the reference to the
css as absolute url:
"/Themes/me.com/stylesheet.css"

When you insert a "/" as the first character, the browser always points to
the root of the site.

HTH

Bye,
Stefano

 

[Guest]

Hi there

Yes that would be the solution but the stylesheet reference is inserted
directly by the Theming process & I have no opportunity to specify it as a
root reference or otherwise! Unless I'm going completely mad, that is, but
thank you for the suggestion.

Anybody got any ideas how to hook into the theme process?

Cheers again!!

 

[Guest]

Hi there

Yes that would be the solution but the stylesheet reference is inserted
directly by the Theming process & I have no opportunity to specify it as a
root reference or otherwise! Unless I'm going completely mad, that is, but
thank you for the suggestion.

Anybody got any ideas how to hook into the theme process?

Cheers again!!