C#.NET MVC Route Aliasing - asp.net-mvc

Question

I've been searching and searching for away to make old URL like we used to do in aspx pages where you could have an alias pointing to a page like www.domain.com/my-great-alias point to www.domain.com/alias.aspx. I want to do the same thing in MVC but can not figure out how to make this happen in the route table. Where www.domain.com/my-great-alias would show up to the end user as such but point to www.domain.com/alias/2
Does this make sense to anyone else what I'm looking for?
// router
routes.MapRouteLowercase(
"Alias",
"{id}",
new
{
controller = "alias",
action = "select",
id = UrlParameter.Optional
}
);
// Alias controller
public ActionResult Select()
{
return View("select");
}
// Recipe Controller
public ActionResult Select()
{
return View();
}

Answer 1

You should be able to do this utilizing route config and parameters (as long as it's in the same domain):
Routing
routes.MapRoute(
name: "AliasRoute",
url: "{id}",
defaults: new { controller = "Alias" }
);
Controller
public class AliasController : Controller
{
public ActionResult Index(string id)
{
//DO SOME DATABASE STUFF HERE TO LOOKUP THE CORRESPONDIND CONTROLLER AND ACTION
var controllerAction = lookupControllerActionInDatabase(id);
return View(controllerAction.ViewName);
//OR
//DO CONDITIONAL CHECKS HERE AND RETURN THE APPROPRIATE VIEW
if (id == "my-great-alias") {
return View("Alias");
} else if (id == condition1) {
return View("viewForCondition1");
} else if (id == condition2) {
return View("viewForCondition2");
}
//AND SO ON...
}
}