Trouble with routing in ASP.NET MVC

Question

I've got an ASP.NET MVC site under a Classic ASP site. The MVC site is:

http://www.inrix.com/traffic

The routes

http://www.inrix.com/traffic
http://www.inrix.com/traffic/home
http://www.inrix.com/traffic/features

work fine. However, the route:

http://www.inrix.com/traffic/support

does not. Click it to see what I'm getting. If I include the action:

http://www.inrix.com/traffic/support/index

it works.

When I run this at home by pressing F5 in VS, it works fine with just http://www.inrix.com/traffic/support (i.e., no action specified). Here are my routes:

public static void RegisterRoutes(RouteCollection routes)
{
    routes.IgnoreRoute("{resource}.axd/{*pathInfo}");

    routes.MapRoute(
        "Terms",
        "{controller}/{id}",
        new { controller = "Terms", action = "Index" }
        );

    routes.MapRoute(
        "Default",
        "{controller}/{action}/{id}",
        new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional }
        );

    routes.MapRoute(
        "ThankYou",
        "{controller}/{action}/{email}/{id}"
        );
}

www.inrix.com/traffic maps to HomeController (Index action).

I want www.inrix.com/traffic/support to map to SupportController, Index action.

What's going on with the "support" route?

Additional Code:

Controller:

using System.Web.Mvc;

namespace InrixTraffic.Controllers
{
    public class SupportController : Controller
    {
        public ActionResult Index()
        {
            return View();
        }
    }
}

View:

@{
    Layout = null;
}

<!DOCTYPE html>

<html>
<head>
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width" />
    <title>Support</title>
</head>
    <body>
        <h1>Hello!</h1>
    </body>
</html>

New route:

    routes.MapRoute(
        "Support",
        "traffic/support",
        new { controller = "Support", action = "Index" }
        );

Francisco Afonso · Accepted Answer · 2013-05-01 23:07:47Z

2

@EDIT: I think you have a file path (folder probably) with that same url. I mean, a folder named "support". In order to override file path with route path you need to add:

routes.RouteExistingFiles = true;

edited May 1, 2013 at 23:07

answered Apr 30, 2013 at 23:49

Francisco Afonso

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3 Comments

birdus Over a year ago

You're correct about F5 running debug at localhost. See the end of the post for clarification of your questions.

Francisco Afonso Over a year ago

@birdus, please check my updated answer and delete previous comments for simplicity on the discussion. Hope that works.

birdus Over a year ago

That's it! As it turns out, I didn't really need that directory, so I just deleted it and that fixed it. Thanks!

Paul Welbourne · Accepted Answer · 2013-05-01 22:19:10Z

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Do you have a Traffic controller with an Index action? If so I think you need to set-up a route like whats shown below:

routes.MapRoute(
    "Terms",
    "traffic/support",
    new { controller = "Traffic", action = "Index" }
    );

Place this route above your Terms route in your RegisterRoutes method.

EDIT

I would setup my routes like this:

public static void RegisterRoutes(RouteCollection routes)
{
    routes.IgnoreRoute("{resource}.axd/{*pathInfo}");

    routes.MapRoute(
        "Support",
        "traffic/support",
        new { controller = "Support", action = "Index" }
    );

    // don't know why you need the id at the end
    routes.MapRoute(
        "Terms",
        "terms",
        new { controller = "Terms", action = "Index" }
        );

    routes.MapRoute(
        "Default",
        "{controller}/{action}/{id}",
        new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional }
        );

    // why does this route not have any defaults defined?
    routes.MapRoute(
        "ThankYou",
        "{controller}/{action}/{email}/{id}"
        );
}

edited May 1, 2013 at 22:19

answered Apr 30, 2013 at 21:42

Paul Welbourne

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8 Comments

birdus Over a year ago

Traffic actually goes to HomeController. SupportController.Index is where I want this URL to go. I clarified that at the bottom of the question.

Paul Welbourne Over a year ago

So you want to add this route instead routes.MapRoute( "Terms", "traffic/support", new { controller = "Support", action = "Index" } );

Paul Welbourne Over a year ago

The reason your traffic/support route is failing to match is because your Default route will look for a TrafficController with a 'Support' Action. You need to put the above route before the Default route in your RegisterRoutes method.

birdus Over a year ago

Thanks for your help with the basics on routing. The Id for Terms is because there can be a number of languages and I'm passing in something like "de" for the language (de = German). That's something else I'm having a problem with and haven't gotten an answer for. stackoverflow.com/questions/15688789/…

birdus Over a year ago

Looks like I don't even need the Support route. I removed it and the route works just fine. I like simpler. Looks like that uses the Default route.

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