Can any one explain me what URL routing is meant by? And try to give me small example also so that I can understand more.
If you write http://www.example.com/sample
and the browser opens
http://www.example.com/sample.aspx
or
http://www.example.com/sample.php
page then it would be called as URL Routing Rewriting
for example you can visit this link
http://intelliscence.co.uk/fd/
http://intelliscence.co.uk/fd/default.aspx
both link open the same page
The ASP.NET Routing module is responsible for mapping incoming browser requests to particular MVC controller actions.
I can give lot more explanation here, but you will benefit more from reading this article from Asp.net website :- ASP.NET MVC Routing
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We have recently shifted to asp.net mvc, but we still need to support some legacy urls. What is the best way to handle this situation. Is it Application_PreRequestHandlerExecute() event in global.asax, that I need to use or is there any better way?
You can use the URL Rewrite module for IIS7. Scott Hanselman has a good post on using URL rewrite to to handle legacy URLs here.
Another option, I believe you can simply add a route that matches your old url syntax.
Let us say I have a url of subdomain.domain.com. Is there a way in ASP.NET MVC to have a url of say otherdomain.com/gotothesubdomain that takes you to subdomain.domain.com? I know that a simple redirect could do it, but I want the url to stay as otherdomain.com/gotothesubdomain.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated and thanks!
Assuming that you have 2 separate applications then you would need to grab the page as a string and then render it, here are some potential starting points - WebRequest/WebResponse, Html.RenderPartial in the mvc source or you could have a look at JoeyB's article.
It may be helpful to look at Luke Sampsons article that explains how to have multiple sub-domains in one mvc application, may help with your scenario?
This may be a stupid question, but anyway... I have an MVC site and a legacy ASP.net web forms site. I have a controller action on my MVC site that I would like to (programatically) POST to from my web forms site.
I can find lots of information describing RESTful services etc., but I can't seem to find a resource that explains how to do this bit - anybody point me in the right direction?
In MVC, there is nothing special about the FORM on the page (unlike WebForms).
Just create a normal HTML FORM (without runat="server"). Set the action to point to your controller action. Set the method to POST.
That's it. In your controller action, you can access the FormCollection directly, or you can attempt to use parameter/model binding.
This post demonstrates how to post data to web server with HttpWebRequest.
You just need to compose your own data to be posted, and change the url that the data will be posted to. It's the url of your controller in your case.
I am rewriting some of sites in MVC.
I am concerned about old links out there, some I know about and some I don't.
I am looking for suggestions and code sample on how to make sure that my known and unknown links are not dead. What are your choices?
I would eventually like to phase out my old links. I hope to do this by notifying my users coming from old links about the new links.
I want to start off with something simple, as I am still learning MVC.
Another post suggested Managed Fusion URL Rewriter and Reverse Proxy.
I am the developer of the URL Rewriter you mentioned. If you would like help, please contact me as suggested in the ReadMe.txt file. What you are asking for is not out of the ordinary and can be easily accomplished using some very basic rules.
Well you brought up two important points. You want to notify your users about the new links, you biggest user your probably care about at this time is Google. You can address this concern with Google by doing a 301 Permanent Redirect. For example, this is how you would do it with the URL Rewriter syntax.
RewriteRule ^/(old-url.*)$ /new-url$1 [R=301]
The R=301 does the permanent redirect. The second your known and unknown links. For your known links you just need to map them to the correct part of your new application using the above rules. Depending on how many old url's you have you probably want to make the rewrite rule generic so one will catch many old url's.
For the unknown links you probably want to do one of two things, look over your server logs or analytics for anything important, and map those as appropriately to the correct part of your new code.
Then to make sure all the others don't totally go away you can redirect them to either your home page, internal site search, or just a generic page explaining that your site has been updated and this link is no longer in use.
Again please contact me with questions. The Managed Fusion URL Rewriter and Reverse Proxy will work perfectly with any .NET website (including MVC) on IIS 6 and any type of website on IIS 7 including PHP, Ruby, JSP, and Classic ASP.
Have a look at this article - http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2007/02/26/tip-trick-url-rewriting-with-asp-net.aspx
SUMMARY:Tip/Trick: Url Rewriting with
ASP.NET.
http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2007/12/03/asp-net-mvc-framework-part-2-url-routing.aspx
SUMMARY:Blog - ASP.NET MVC Framework
(Part 2): URL Routing.
If what you need is pretty URLs (or Search Engine Optimized), you can do it without rewriting your application. Check out URL Rewrite Module for IIS 7:
http://www.iis.net/extensions/URLRewrite/
It is Microsoft supported and supports URL rewriting and also response content rewriting (to fix your application links for example).
Daniel Vasquez Lopez.
By default the MVC Preview 5 web project comes with a HomeController.vb class. This sets the web URL to http://www.mywebsite.com/home/ by default. If I just wanted this to be http://www.mywebsite.com/ by default, how would I accomplish that?
Answered already so I'm just going to direct you to How do I get rid of Home in ASP.Net MVC?.
Users with 10k+ rep can also refer to https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33861/aspnet-mvc-routing-basics-root-route (deleted)
I'm not sure I understand your question, if what you want is to go to http://www.mywebsite.com/ and not have it be trailed by /home, that is the behavior you will get.
Is there something else you were looking for?