Relative Path tilde (~) not working in ASP.NET MVC 4

Question

When I run my project on my machine, it runs on http://localhost:53998/ but when I deploy it to http://test.myserver.com/MyApp/ all links break. I'm using the relative path tilde (~), so a navigation link would be something like:

<a href="~/SomeCtrl/Index">Some Action</a>

On localhost, this works fine (when root is /), but when I deploy my project under /MyApp/ it links the action to http://test.myserver.com/SomeCtrl/Index instead of http://test.myserver.com/MyApp/SomeCtrl/Index so I always get a 404.

Isn't this what the tilde (~) should take care of? Am I doing something wrong here?

EDIT:

This works correctly:

@Html.ActionLink("Some Action", "Index", "SomeCtrl")

And this:

<a href="@Url.Action("Index", "SomeCtrl")">Some Action</a>

Answer 1

I had a similar problem, the answer in my case was I had some URL Rewrite settings which were changing the tilde path to point to a different folder. I had to sort out these rewrite rules and it fixed my problem.