The virtual path '/' maps to another application, which is not allowed

I have tried other solutions posted to stackoverflow and have found none that work, here is my problem.
So I want to send an email using hangfire through my MVC application, this works on my local machine but when I upload it to a remote server I get the following error on hangfire:

The virtual path ‘/’ maps to another application, which is not allowed

This is the code I use to send the email:

foreach (var EmailEntry in EmailEntries)
{
var email = new EmailTemplateModel
{
ViewName = “EmailTemplateModel”,
FromAddress = "donotreply@abpbeef.com",
EmailAddress = EmailEntry,
Subject = “Task Report”,
Date = Dates,
Task = DatesAndTasks,
};
email.Send();
}

When I use the ‘ViewName’ method it returns ‘~/Views/Emails’ on my local machine.