ASP.Net MVC Route to Username

Question

I am trying to create a route with a Username...

So the URL would be mydomain.com/abrudtkhul (abrudtkhul being the username)

My application will have public

Answer 1

You might want to consider not allowing usernames of certain types if you want to have some other functional controllers like Account, Admin, Profile, Settings, etc. Also you might want your static content not to trigger the "username" route. In order to achieve that kind of functionality (similar to how twitter urls are processed) you could use the following Routes:

// do not route the following
routes.IgnoreRoute("{resource}.axd/{*pathInfo}");
routes.IgnoreRoute("content/{*pathInfo}"); 
routes.IgnoreRoute("images/{*pathInfo}");

// route the following based on the controller constraints
routes.MapRoute(
    "Default",                                              // Route name
    "{controller}/{action}/{id}",                           // URL with parameters
    new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = "" }  // Parameter defaults
    , new { controller = @"(admin|help|profile|settings)" } // Constraints
);

// this will catch the remaining allowed usernames
routes.MapRoute(
    "Users",
    "{username}",
    new { controller = "Users", action = "View", username = "" }
);

Then you will need to have a controller for each of the tokens in the constraint string (e.g. admin, help, profile, settings), as well as a controller named Users, and of course the default controller of Home in this example.

If you have a lot of usernames you don't want to allow, then you might consider a more dynamic approach by creating a custom route handler.