Sub Domain implementation In MVC 5 Application - asp.net-mvc

Question

We are developing a MVC 5 application. Suppose the main site is like www.sport.com
Now we want to create 3 sub domain like cricket.sport.com, football.sport.com and hockey.sport.com
Most of the functionality will be same for this 3 sub-sites.
We have implemented 2 approaches :
Approach 1: Create 3 area for each cricket/football/hockey. But this will create code redundancy. So whenever request comes from URL we check and forward request to specific area.
Approach 2 : Create Single Controller - Check URL SubDomain and redirect depending upon each request and display specific view. In this approach, each time we need to check request sub domain and forward to same.
What is best possible way to implement sub domain in MVC application?
We want to deploy this site on Windows Azure.

Answer 1

What you mean by implement sub domain isn't all too clear.
If you are trying to host the same sight at different sub domains and expect them to work differently then you should have something in your web.config or some other setting that then tell each site what it is.
Something like:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<configuration>
<appSettings>
<add key="AppType" value="criket" />
</appSettings>
</configuration>
Then inside your application you'll do:
if(ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings["AppType"] == "cricket")
{
//do cricket app specific stuff
} else { /* do something else */ }
If this whole thing doesn't need to be dynamic you could also have a build symbol :
//uncomment or comment accordingly
#define CRIKET
//#define FOOTBALL
public class HomeController
{
public ActionResult Index()
{
#if CRICKET
return View("Cricket");
#elif FOOTBALL
return View("Football");
#endif
}
}
A config setting is slower than a build symbol but it gives you a dynamic approach. Choose according to your need.