I am combining several sites into one which share the same membership type and data to keep from custom synchronization code. So I have multiple root nodes with different layouts and the same doc types. I believe I understand how this works when I deploy to the server and actually have multiple IP's/dns names but what about dev? I have had to resort to setting umbracoHideTopLevelNodeFromPath to false and...

To elaborate I tackled the site template issues as follows in the child templates:

var site = Model.Content.AncestorOrSelf(1).Name;
Layout = string.Format("~/Views/{0}/SiteLayout.cshtml", site);

All of the templates point to a layout page that has no layout info just some base css and js require calls. By convention I have a folder under views named the same as the root site node and having a SiteLayout.cshtml page under it.

• ~/Views/Site1/SiteLayout.cshtml
  • Layout = "~/Views/SiteLayout.cshtml"
• ~/Views/Site2/SiteLayout.cshtml
  • Layout = "~/Views/SiteLayout.cshtml"
• etc...
• ~/Views/SiteLayout.cshtml (RootMaster)

Now the issue is everywhere that a relative url was hard coded in the html. I tried using @Url.Content("/") which doesn't do what I need so the only thing I can think of is adding a helper method that basically does the same as the above and appends the url to the closest root ancestor.

@Url.MultiSiteUrl("/")

Any tips or suggestions. Maybe I am missing an obvious answer here? Am I completely barking up the wrong tree?