MVC4 hyphen in URL - asp.net-mvc

Question

So i'm trying to employ the use of hyphens in my URLs for readability but so far haven't found a way to make it work with mvc4.
I'll start with the code in the controller:
public ViewResult Index()
{
ViewBag.URL = Functions.fetchURL();
return View();
}
[HttpPost]
public ActionResult Index(LogonModel model, string returnUrl)
{
//omitted to save space
return View(model);
}
public ActionResult Forgot_Login_Info()
{
return View();
}
[HttpPost]
public ActionResult Forgot_Login_Info(RetrievePasswordViewModel model)
{
//omitted to save space
return View();
}
So I'm using underscores for the name of the actions as seen with "Forgot_Login_Info" and that is the name of the view as well. For testing I also manually created a view called "Forgot-Login-Info"
In my global.asax.cs file i simply have this line for routes
RouteConfig.RegisterRoutes(RouteTable.Routes);
which is the standard routing line with new projects for MVC4 and this is hooked to the "RouteConfig.cs" file and in that file here is the code I have, which I found in another question on this site.
public class RouteConfig
{
public class HyphenatedRouteHandler : MvcRouteHandler
{
protected override IHttpHandler GetHttpHandler(RequestContext requestContext)
{
requestContext.RouteData.Values["controller"] = requestContext.RouteData.Values["controller"].ToString().Replace("-","_");
requestContext.RouteData.Values["action"] = requestContext.RouteData.Values["action"].ToString().Replace("-", "_");
return base.GetHttpHandler(requestContext);
}
}
public static void RegisterRoutes(RouteCollection routes)
{
routes.IgnoreRoute("{resource}.axd/{*pathInfo}");
routes.MapRoute(
name: "Default",
url: "{controller}/{action}/{id}",
defaults: new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional }
);
routes.Add(
new Route("{controller}/{action}/{id}",
new RouteValueDictionary(
new { controller = "Default", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional }),
new HyphenatedRouteHandler())
);
}
}
Lastly here is the code for the "Index" view, which is where I have a link to the "Forgot_Login_Info".
<div class="centerBlockItem" style="width:450px; text-align:center">
#Html.ActionLink("Forgot Password?", "Forgot-Login-Info")
#Html.ActionLink("Forgot Password?", "Forgot_Login_Info")
</div>
Now I have the link 2 ways, 1 using underscore and the other using hyphen. According to what i've read in regards to the code I found for this purpose, Both links should open the "Forgot_Login_Info" view and not the "Forgot-Login-Info" view. But what I'm getting instead is the 2nd link works fine and the action name matches the view files name. But when I click on the first link, I get a 404 error because the system can't find the "Forgot-Login-Info" view file, even though I had manually created a file with that name for testing.
One more thing to note, the code in my routeconfig file, In the answer I had found it suggested I comment out the default route code lines and just leave:
routes.Add(
new Route("{controller}/{action}/{id}",
new RouteValueDictionary(
new { controller = "Default", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional }),
new HyphenatedRouteHandler())
);
I had done this too and got the same results. Any ideas where I'm screwing things up?

Answer 1

Ok I figured out what I was doing wrong, I had this listed under the root routebundle.cs file but i was trying to make this work in an area, once I moved this code to the area registration file, it worked like a charm. If anyone needs my full code listing just ask and i'll post it all up.

Answer 2

How is this helping SEO when the crawlers can still access the underscore version of the controller, thereby duplicating content. Struggling with this right now.