ASP.NET MVC routing to action

Question

I'm having trouble doing what I want to achieve when doing routing in ASP.NET MVC. What I want to do is the following:

When typing http://localhost/MyWebsite/, I want to redirect to http://localhost/MyWebsite/Login/ (The redirection to the action Index is implied here)
When typing http://localhost/MyWebsite/MyAction, I want to redirect to http://localhost/MyWebsite/Login/MyAction

Point 1 was achieved using the following lines in the file RouteConfig.cs:

routes.MapRoute(
        name: "Default",
        url: "{controller}/{action}/{id}",
        defaults: new { controller = "Login", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional });

But I cannot accomplish point 2. Note that the user does not come from another action in a controller, but actually types the address in his browser.

Thanks for your help.

Dan Schnau · Accepted Answer · 2014-08-21 17:11:45Z

2

since /MyWebsite/Login and /MyWebsite/MyAction both have two segments in the URL, they're both matching your defined Route.

You can use a Route Constraint to only match /MyWebsite/Login to your first point, followed by a modified second route mapping:

     routes.MapRoute(
         name: "Default",
         url: "MyWebsite/Login/",
         defaults: new { controller = "Login", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional });


     routes.MapRoute(
             name: "Actions",
             url: "MyWebsite/{action}/",
             defaults: new { controller = "Login", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional });

answered Aug 21, 2014 at 17:11

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