How is this achievable in asp.net mvc? I have seen some ruby examples out there...
Github like routes in Rails
i.e. nested folders, can be unlimited... however they are usually nested once
e.g.
lets say my main route in my app is:
/projects/{projectid}/
I am hooked into a file system, so I want users to navigate through whatever directory structure so I can have:
/projects/{projectid}/foldera/
/projects/{projectid}/folderb/
/projects/{projectid}/foldera/pic1.png
/projects/{projectid}/folderb/special/car134d.jpeg
etc...
This way I can only show files or pictures that are inside the url/directory the user is in...
I think what you're after is the {*queryvalues} segmented url handler for routing. The * indicates a wildcard-style match of one or more segments, delimited by a "/".
To map to a physical path, you can use this to add a route to your Global.asax.cs:
routes.MapPageRoute(
"Projects", // Route name
"projects/{projectId}/{*path}", // Route url format
"~/ProjectFolder/{projectId}/{path}" // Path to files
);
If you want to get the path into an MVC Controller Action and then do something with it, you could use MapRoute:
routes.MapRoute(
"Projects", // Route name
"projects/{projectId}/{*path}", // Route url format
new { controller = "Project", action = "Index" } // Defaults
);
Then create a ProjectController, and in the Index action retrieve RouteData.Values["projectId"] and RouteData.Values["path"] and do whatever you need to with them...
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I am new to ASP.Net and working on MVC 4. I want to replace my current URL with a customized URL.
For example:
Current URL: http://www.testsite.com/home?pageId=1002
Desired URL: http://www.testsite.com/1002/home/
So the URL that is displayed in the address bar will be the desired one and actual URL working will be the current one.
I have tried URL routing in Global.asax file of my project but doesn't seems to be working for me.
What exactly I want is to put the URL Like this.
Thanks in Advance.
ASP.NET MVC 4 provide a toolbox way to write your application. The URL that you see in the browser comes from Routing that do the hard work to convert url to app routes and app routes to url.
1) The default ASP.NET MVC 4 Template project comes with a file at App_Start folder named RouteConfig, where you must config the routes for the app.
2) The routes has precedence order, so, put this route before the default one:
routes.MapRoute(
name: "RouteForPageId",
url: "{pageId}/{action}",
//controller = "Home" and action = "Index" are the default value,
//change for the Controller and action that you have
//pageId is the parameter from the action that will return the page
defaults: new { controller = "Home", action = "Index" }
);
Now you can enter myappdomain/1220/index for exemple.
Hopes this help you! Take a look here for more info ASP.NET Routing!
So, I would really like to create "landing page" routes for each of a particular type of entity.
So, let's suppose I have a site that is about comic heroes.
I would like landing pages like http://myherosite.com/superman and http://myherosite.com/batman, etc.
I know how to accomplish this with something like http://myherosite.com/heroes/superman and http://mysite.com/heroes/batman. The "heroes" in the URL allow for a specific route and thus controller and default action.
Is it possible to setup a route that will accomplish this and still leave the default route ("{controller}/{action}/{id}") in place (I am using that).
Thanks
You could add a route before "Default" that interprets all single-segment paths as containing an action method of the heroes controller.
routes.MapRoute(
name: "Landings",
url: "{action}",
defaults: new { controller = "Heroes" }
);
Of course, that would prevent you from using any default action for the default route because those are single segments paths as well.
I have a rather peculiar issue with routing.
Coming back to routing after not having to worry about configuration for it for a year, I am using the default route and ignore route for resources:
routes.IgnoreRoute("{resource}.axd/{*pathInfo}");
routes.MapRoute(
"Default",
// Route name
"{controller}/{action}/{id}",
// URL with parameters
new
{
controller = "Home",
action = "Index",
id = UrlParameter.Optional
});
I have a RulesController with an action for Index and Lorem and a Index.aspx, Lorem.aspx in Views > Rules directory.
I have an ActionLink aimed at Rules/Index on the maseter page:
<li><div><%: Html.ActionLink("linkText", "Index", "Rules")%></div></li>
The link is being rendered as http://localhost:12345/Rules/ and am getting a 404.
When I type Index into the URL the application routes it to the action.
When I change the default route action from "Index" to "Lorem", the action link is being rendered as http://localhost:12345/Rules/Index adding the Index as it's no longer on the default route and the application routes to the Index action correctly.
I have used Phil Haack's Routing Debugger, but entering the url http://localhost:12345/Rules/ is causing a 404 using that too.
I think I've covered all of the rookie mistakes, relevant SO questions and basic RTFMs.
I'm assuming that "Rules" isn't any sort of reserved word in routing.
Other than updating the Routes and debuugging them, what can I look at?
Make sure there is not a folder called 'Rules' in the same directory as your website. In its default configuration, ASP.NET MVC routes will respect physical paths before route definitions. If there is a route defined which matches the path to a physical folder in the website, the routing engine will be bypassed completely.
You can disable routing to physical paths by changing the RouteTable.Routes.RouteExistingFiles property to false, but if you do this and your application has paths to physical resources (such as images, scripts, stylesheets, etc) you will need to accommodate for those paths with matching IgnoreRoute() definitions.
For example: RouteTable.Routes.IgnoreRoute("content/{*pathInfo}");.
I am running MVC in a subdomain
http://test.domain.com which points to the /Test directory on my webhost4life account.
Html.ActionLink("About", "About", "Home")
it renders a link to
http://test.domain.com/Test/Home/About -- which gives a 404
the link should be ..
http://test.domain.com/Home/About
is there a way to override ActionLink to omit the /Test on render?
Thank you
Experiment 1
I added a route to the table like this...
routes.MapRoute(
"Test", // Route name
"Test/{controller}/{action}/{id}", // URL with parameters
new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = "" } // Parameter defaults
);
and now action link renders links like this..
http://test.domain.com/Test/Test/Home/About/
when this is clicked it does not give a 404 but gives the Home controler About action.
Result
No more broken links but the site renders ugly urls.
For a site using lots of subdomains I use a nifty MVC extension from ITCloud called UrlRouteAttribute. It allows you to assign a route to every action as an attribute setting the path and name. I have extended this to allow fully qualified paths - so to include the domain/subdomain the controller should attach to. If this is something you'd be interested in I'll upload a copy somewhere.
My first route:
// Should work for /Admin, /Admin/Index, /Admin/listArticles
routes.MapRoute(
"Admin", // Route name
"Admin/{action}", // URL with parameters
new { controller = "Admin", action = "Index" } // Parameter defaults
);
is not resolving the route(I use Phil Haack's Route Debugger) and even the last route, "Catch All" route does not work:
//Maps any completely invalid routes to ErrorController.NotFound
routes.MapRoute("Catch All", "{*path}",
new { controller = "Error", action = "NotFound" }
);
If I go to /Admin/listArticles it works but /Admin gives me Error 403.15 "The Web server is configured to not list the contents of this directory." That points me to the idea that no routing is used as it looks for a physical file in a directory?
This is a simple low-level route problem but I cannot get it to work and everybody gives me links to read (yes I know MSDN is out there) but no real answers. I have researched routes and have tried but I am posting this because I cannot get it to work, any help, answers?
The answer to my question was that I had a route called /Admin and I wrote my error log to a directory /Admin/Error It seems that there is no overload to specify if the route should be resolved or if it is part of a physical directory.
The problem might be that you have added this route below the default route, all custom routes should be added above default route.
Are you using IIS 6.0? If so it'll need to look like...
// Should work for /Admin, /Admin/Index, /Admin/listArticles
routes.MapRoute(
"Admin", // Route name
"Admin.mvc/{action}", // URL with parameters
new { controller = "Admin", action = "Index" } // Parameter defaults
);
Where you need to set mvc as an application extension