resource sharing in asp.net mvc

Question

I have 2 asp.net mvc2 projects in a solution. One is normal site for visitors use and the other one is admin back-end which is going to be separated by sub-domains like test.com and admin.test.com. The scenario is like admin will add a new item(eg product) with image and test.com will use that image to display product. Both application are sharing one db. so there is no problem to get the item details that is coming from the db. but for item image that has been uploaded in admin directory(admin.test.com) - any idea how to get it from general domain(test.com) to display?? Also what is the best way of separating the resources like image files or even css or js files across sites and how to access them?

psI'm using shared hosting.

Thanks!

Answer 1

You can upload to a third sub-domain or to the front end domain. You upload to a physical folder. This folder can be an appSetting value or so.

So, you get similar settings to those in web.config appSettings:

<add key="ProductImagesPhysicalFolder" value="x:\websites\frontend\product-images" />
<add key="ProductImagesFolderUrl" value="http://frontend.com/product-images" />

Upload to the physical folder (given you setup permission in ISS to allow write access to that folder), and have a helper method like GetProductImageUrl(string imageFilename) to get the URL of the image given its filename (saved in DB).