asp.net-mvc-routing

I have a MVC controller called Downloads. http://mysite/Downloads I also want to put a physical file in a physical folder called http://mysite/Downloads/MyFile.zip . If I simply create a folder, I get a 403 when browsing to http://mysite/Downloads . (Most likely because of directory browsing is disabled) But I want the MVC controller to kick in instead. How do I do that? Daniel Elliott If you browse to http://mysite/Downloads/{ACTION} it will fire your controllers action. The only thing that won't work in your example is the /Downloads with no action. You could re-write this URL to redirect

What is so wrong about the string "con"? OK, my api route configuration is rather uninteresting: config.Routes.MapHttpRoute( name: "DefaultApi", routeTemplate: "api/{controller}/{id}", defaults: new { id = RouteParameter.Optional } ); The LocationController has the following method: public List<LocationViewModel> Get(string id) { return _ds.SearchLocations(id); } Everything works as it should, except that I am getting an HTTP 404 error when I try to get the resource like this: /api/location/con In this case, the method is not hit. The strange thing is that if I set any other string other than

Normally i wouldn't put a title like this in the question, but i'm pretty sure it's a bug (or by design?) I created a brand new ASP.NET MVC 3 Web Application. Then i went to the /Home/About page. The URL for this page is: http://localhost:51419/Home/About Then i changed the URL to this: http://localhost:51419/(A(a))/Home/About And the page worked? Looking at the route values, controller = Home, Action = About. It's ignored the first part? And if i look at all the links in the source: <link href="/(A(a))/Content/Site.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /> <script src="/(A(a))/Scripts/jquery-1

I want to test if a URL is part of the routes defined in the Global.asax . This is what I have: var TheRequest = HttpContext.Current.Request.Url.AbsolutePath.ToString(); var TheRoutes = System.Web.Routing.RouteTable.Routes; foreach (var TheRoute in TheRoutes) { if (TheRequest == TheRoute.Url) //problem here { RequestIsInRoutes = true; } } The problem is that I can’t extract the URL from the route. What do I need to change? The problem is that I can't extract the URL from the route. I disagree. The problem is that you expect to pull the URLs out of the route table and compare them externally.

I've been folowing the advice from this article for setting up a robots.txt file in asp.net mvc3 for using a controller to handle the server response, and IIS 8.0 express is returning a file not found error, rather than an asp.net error. How do I get IIS to not look for a file in these cases? Is there something I need in the web.config? Darin Dimitrov IIS tries to be intelligent here. He intercepts the dot in the url and thinks that this is a static file and attempts to serve it with the default StaticFile handler. it dopesn't event get to the managed ASP.NET application. The first possibility

I am building a MVC application in asp.NET for a web portal. I have prepared a series of controllers, and mapped all the paths that don't macth to this to a Page controller, which will render the appropriate page. My default route works like this: routes.MapRoute( "Default", "{level1}/{level2}/{level3}", new { controller = "Page", action = "Index", level1 = "home", level2 = "", level3 = "" } ); But this has fixed width, it will accept only up to 3 levels. Moreover, I'd like to manage actions appended to the path, like "edit" and "delete". Is this possible? company/about/who_we_are/staff ->

I'm trying to set the Default URL of my MVC application to a view within an area of my application. The area is called " Common ", the controller " Home " and the view " Index ". I've tried setting the defaultUrl in the forms section of web.config to " ~/Common/Home/Index " with no success. I've also tried mapping a new route in global.asax, thus: routes.MapRoute( "Area", "{area}/{controller}/{action}/{id}", new { area = "Common", controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = "" } ); Again, to no avail. George Stocker The route you listed only works if they explicitly type out the URL: yoursite