Bundling and minifying for site subfolder

Hey community!

I have strange problem with CSS BUNDLING. I did publish of Nop.Web. After that I hosted it localy as application of Defaul Site in local IIS (mark as 1 on image). I have bundled css file. But I see a lot of 404 errors for resources (fonts, icons etc) that were used in css files via relative path. I see in console that site tries to find resources in wrong storage. It uses link without application name. For example it uses http://localhost:8080/Themes/Uptown/Content/fonts/DroidSerif-Italic.woff2 but should use http://localhost:8080/Nop.Web.Publish/Themes/Uptown/Content/fonts/DroidSerif-Italic.woff2

After that I raised another local sites (marked as 2 on image). For that site I used same codebase. And now I don't see 404 errors for site. It looks and works fine. It's very strange scenario. May somebody help me ? Thanks in advance

rznELVIS wrote:

Is Nop.Web.Publish virtual folder or normal folder under the localhost? If its normal folder you'll have to make a virtual folder.

seanrock wrote:

Hey, seanrock! Thanks for you reply.

Nop.Web.Publish is application (not virtual directory). Try to host Nop.Web as virtual directory wasfailed because of authentication issues with <authentication mode="Forms"> (web.config)


In my vision apllication provides more abilities then virtual directory (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/iis/get-started/planning-your-iis-architecture/understanding-sites-applications-and-virtual-directories-on-iis)

Please see hint of the "CSS bundling and minification" option in admin area (it doesn't work in subfolders):

"Enable to combine (bundle) multiple CSS files into a single file. Do not enable if you're running nopCommerce in IIS virtual directory. Note that this functionality requires significant server resources (not recommended to use with cheap shared hosting plans)."

Andrey, I got it! Thanks a lot! Developers don't like doucmentation :)

I think we just should make it more visible