Currently everything under homecontroller appears in the URL as
example.com/Home/{Action}
Is there a way we can keep all other routing the way it is but ONLY special case home controller so everything under home comes under the domain.
like
example.com/about
example.com/contact
example.com/error
instead of creating new controller classes for each of them.
EDIT:
The other URL's like
example.com/user/details/123
example.com/user/edit/123
Which are in the userController should work the same as they are now
I think the best way is:
routes.MapRoute("home", "home", new { controller = "Home", action = "Index" });
routes.MapRoute("about", "about", new { controller = "Home", action = "About" });
routes.MapRoute("contact", "contact", new { controller = "Home", action = "Contact" });
routes.MapRoute(
"Default", // Route name
"{controller}/{action}/{id}", // URL with parameters
new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional } // Parameter defaults
);
and when you want to create a link, use:
@Html.RouteLink("Home", "home", new{/* route values */}, new {/* html attribues */})
OR:
@Html.RouteLink("Home", "home")
instead of:
@Html.ActionLink("Home", "Index", "Home", new{/* route values */}, new {/* html attribues */})
this works for me, and should work for you too.
UPDATE:
you can create a symbol like @
(or -
or anything else), before the action
part in url, to make the url unique, such as:
routes.MapRoute(
"test", // route name
"@{action}", // url and parameters
new {controller = "MyHome", action = "Home"} // parameter defaults
);
routes.MapRoute(
"Default", // Route name
"{controller}/{action}/{id}", // URL with parameters
new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional } // Parameter defaults
);
in this way, your urls are different from the Default map-route and you can create urls like:
site.com/@Home
site.com/@About
site.com/@Contact
but the first, in my idea, is better and I always use that.
Using the Attribute Routing of MVC5, I did similar to Javad_Amiry answer, by placing a route for each action in HomeController:
public class HomeController : Controller
{
[Route("about")]
public ActionResult About()
{
return View();
}
I think this is more maintainable than placing every action in the global RouteConfig.cs file. Better still to combine Attribute Routing with convention-based routing, so new actions added to controller will work by default without a Route attribute (eg: /Home/action) but can be improved by adding the Route attribute (eg: /action).
You could simply modify the default route and remove the controller bit from the url and specify that it will always be Home
in the default values:
routes.MapRoute(
"Default",
"{action}/{id}",
new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional }
);
Obviously you realize that this limits your application to a single controller which is HomeController
as now you no longer have any possibility to set it in your url. Stuffing all the actions in a single controller is a bad practice IMHO and violates a couple of principles like RESTful routing and SRP.
ASP.NET MVC root url’s with generic routing