MVC custom URL routing - asp.net-mvc

Question

I have a route configured like
routes.MapRoute(
name: "Default",
url: "TEST/{controller}/{action}/{id}",
defaults: new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional }
);
It works fine to redirect to respective controller and actions.
I want to add another redirection on TEST so that if somebody uses www.mysite.com/TEST, it should redirect www.mysite.com/Test/Home instead of giving 403- Forbidden: Access is denied error.
I'm trying like this but could not achieve it.
routes.MapRoute(
name: "AnotherDefault",
url: "TEST",
defaults: new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional }
);
Basically, what I'm trying to do is to redirect from www.mysite.com or www.mysite.com/TEST to www.mysite.com/TEST/Home
To add to the confusion, I also had a physical folder TEST in my application root. Just wondering if keeping another web.config in there would solve? I tried but of no luck
Please advise what i'm missing here. Thanks
After some experiment I have found that the physical folder TEST is causing redirection rule to fail. I changed my route to TEST1 in URL instead of TEST, it worked. But, I can't rename TEST folder. Please advise

Answer 1

Please set the property RouteExistingFiles to true above the Route configurations
public static void RegisterRoutes(RouteCollection routes)
{
routes.RouteExistingFiles = true;
routes.IgnoreRoute("{resource}.axd/{*pathInfo}");
routes.MapRoute(
name: "Default",
url: "TEST/{controller}/{action}/{id}",
defaults: new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional }
);
}
This should allow you to keep the name of folder and also the route name to be "TEST". Let me know how it works out for you

Answer 2

Keep using the first route:
routes.MapRoute(
name: "Default",
url: "TEST/{controller}/{action}/{id}",
defaults: new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional }
);
and add this in your Web.config:
<system.webServer>
<modules runAllManagedModulesForAllRequests="true"></modules>
<handlers>
<remove name="UrlRoutingHandler"/>
</handlers>
</system.webServer>

Answer 3

We Can manage url routing by validate from database.
public class RouteConfig
{
public static void RegisterRoutes(RouteCollection routes)
{
routes.IgnoreRoute("{resource}.axd/{*pathInfo}");
// here i pass my parameter like wwww.abc.com/country-state-city
routes.MapLocalizedRoute("SeoFriendlyUrl",
"{SeoFriendlyName}",
new { controller = "Company", action = "Index" },
new[] { "MigrationTest.Controllers" });
// it is default
routes.MapRoute( name: "Default",
url: "{controller}/{action}/{id}",
defaults: new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional }
);
}
}
public static class LocalizedRouteExtensionMethod
{
public static Route MapLocalizedRoute(this RouteCollection routes, string name, string url, object defaults, string[] namespaces)
{
return MapLocalizedRoute(routes, name, url, defaults, null /* constraints */, namespaces);
}
public static Route MapLocalizedRoute(this RouteCollection routes, string name, string url, object defaults, object constraints, string[] namespaces)
{
if (routes == null)
{
throw new ArgumentNullException("routes");
}
if (url == null)
{
throw new ArgumentNullException("url");
}
var route = new clsRouteData(url, new MvcRouteHandler())
{
Defaults = new RouteValueDictionary(defaults),
Constraints = new RouteValueDictionary(constraints),
DataTokens = new RouteValueDictionary()
};
if ((namespaces != null) && (namespaces.Length > 0))
{
route.DataTokens["Namespaces"] = namespaces;
}
routes.Add(name, route);
return route;
}
}
public class clsRouteData : Route
{
public clsRouteData(string url, IRouteHandler routeHandler)
: base(url, routeHandler)
{
}
public override RouteData GetRouteData(HttpContextBase httpContext)
{
RouteData data = base.GetRouteData(httpContext);
if (data != null)
{
var SeoFriendliyName = data.Values["SeoFriendlyName"] as string;
if (SeoFriendliyName=="india-raj-jaipur")
{
data.Values["controller"] = "City";
data.Values["action"] = "Index";
// Can be send parameter
//data.Values["Id"] = Resutls.Id;
}
}
else
{
data.Values["controller"] = "Norecord";
data.Values["action"] = "Index";
// Can be send parameter
//data.Values["Id"] = Resutls.Id;
}
return data;
}
}