How can I get the baseurl of site?

Question

I want to write a little helper method which returns the base URL of the site. This is what I came up with:

public static string GetSiteUrl()
{
    string ur         


        

Answer 1

Based on what Warlock wrote, I found that the virtual path root is needed if you aren't hosted at the root of your web. (This works for MVC Web API controllers)

String baseUrl = Request.RequestUri.GetLeftPart(UriPartial.Authority) 
+ Configuration.VirtualPathRoot;