Create route for root path, '/', with ServiceStack

Question

I'm trying to set a RestPath for root, '/', but its not allowing me to. Its saying RestPath '/' on Type 'MainTasks' is not Valid

Is there a way to allow this? I'd like to provide a resource from the root.

[Route("/", "GET")]
public class MainTasks : IReturn<MainTasksResponse>
{
}

mythz · Accepted Answer · 2013-11-20T23:13:28.423

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You can only match on the Route / Path in ServiceStack with a FallbackRoute, e.g:

[FallbackRoute("/{Path*}")]
public class Fallback
{
    public string Path { get; set; }
}

This uses a wildcard to handle every unmatched route (inc. /foo/bar). Only 1 fallback route is allowed.

There are also a few other ways to handle the default root path /:

Change the EndpointHostConfig.DefaultRedirectPath to redirect to the service you wish to use
Add a default.cshtml Razor or Markdown View or static default.htm (for HTML requests)
Register a EndpointHostConfig.RawHttpHandlers - This is the first handler looked at in ServiceStack's Order of Operations.
Register a IAppHost.CatchAllHandlers - This gets called for un-matched requests.
Handle the request in a Global Request Filter

edited Nov 20 '13 at 23:13

answered Nov 20 '12 at 20:21

mythz

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Thanks. Looks like I'll have to be exposing everything from "/api". – Andrew Young Nov 20 '12 at 20:28
Creating default.htm redirects to http://localhost/default.htm. Is there a way to serve it from http://localhost directly? – Ufuk Hacıoğulları Jun 16 '13 at 16:45

score 9 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 15 '13 at 15:59

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This worked for me. I just added the RawHttpHandler and rewrote the request path. Worked like a champ. (This is found in my AppHost's Configure function.)

var conf = new EndpointHostConfig();
{
    DefaultRedirectPath = "/foo",
    AllowFileExtensions = { { "eot" }, { "svg" }, { "ttf" }, { "woff" } },
};

conf.RawHttpHandlers.Add(r =>
{
    if (r.RawUrl == "/")
    {
        HttpContext.Current.RewritePath(conf.DefaultRedirectPath);
    }

    return null;
});

this.SetConfig(conf);

answered Apr 15 '13 at 15:59

Christopher Davies

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That is indeed awesome, thanks! I am using it to redirect '/' to an entire different Url (the servicestack app runs purely as a faceless api endpoint & '/' redirects to the API documentation site now) using '[...]HttpContext.Current.Response.Redirect("http://somesite.com/api", true);[...]'. – Jörg Battermann Jul 16 '13 at 11:09

Seer · Answer 3 · 2014-03-06T12:09:54.033

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I have been trying to do this and found Christopher Davies method to no longer work in the latest service stack for a self hosted service. The following on my service that takes no parameters worked.

[FallbackRoute("/")]

edited Mar 06 '14 at 12:09

answered Mar 06 '14 at 10:35

Seer

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