ASP.NET MVC in Subfolder/Virtual Directory/Routing/Domain issue - asp.net

I posted the following question yesterday but didn't get a helpful answer.
May i was not clear enough, i am very sorry.
After hours of searching here and googling with Bing i could not solve
the following
Problem. It does not should a "heavy" Problem.
here is my problem
I have a Domain like http://example.com that is pointed to a
virtual directory on my webspace like
http://myprovider.com/VirtualDirectoryName/.
The folder structure on my webspace is (off course) like this
root
bin
VirtualDirectoryName
bin
Content
Scripts
Views
Web.config
Global.asax
If i call now "http://www.domain.com" i get the Site without CSS and the
links
are "http://www.domain.com/VirtualDirectoryName/".
I used the default and almost empty default "Internet Application". So
the routing
is default and all links are created with #Html.ActionLink.
Please help me, i tried so many things but i cant get it working. In my
local environment i can affect that with IIS settings but (off course) i
do not have access on the IIS settings of my host.
btw, my hosting provider provider is discount ASP.NET.
Thank you all!

How are you referencing the css files in your html?
If your referencing the like:
<link href="../../Content/Style.css" rel="stylesheet" type=\"text/css\" />
It might not be looking in the correct directory. Try the referencing it as the following:
<link href="/Content/Style.css" rel="stylesheet" type=\"text/css\" />
That way you reference it from the root.
A good way to check is to use the "net" tab within firebug this will show if they are loading and if not what location it is trying to find them.

Link your css and javascript this way (using ResolveClientUrl):
<link href="<%=ResolveClientUrl("/Content/style.css")%>" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />

The problem was a simple routing error. My Application was only a simple folder in the iis and not a virtual directory / application. After setting the folder to an application the problem is gone.

I think you can solve it using web.config at the root as suggested here How to host ASP.NET MVC site in a subfolder

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I made the choice to create a new virtual directory under the Default Web Site directory.
Old habits die hard from my .Net 1.0 days.
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What I did and should have done in the first place was create a NEW web site under the Sites folder in IIS. This way it's not a new Virtual Directory and the relative paths throughout the site are now correct.
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I am seeing something very odd and thought I would ask the Stackoverflow community if they knew the answer.
I have an asp.net project that runs fine in one environment, but couldn't figure out what happened to the styles in another environment.
In the first environment (Windows 2008 Server), the following link worked fine:
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http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms178116.aspx
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As Joel says, using '~' can help aleviate this problem, but the '~' only works on tags that get processed by the page. It isn't going to help you for paths in css or js nor the link tag presented unless you add runat=server .. I think. And even that is not going to help you with static resources like html.
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are you sure that the hosting settings are correct.
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