Redirect to another any episerver page from MVC controller?

Question

How to redirect to any page (eg Home) from any MVC controller in Episerver? eg after login - redirect to the start page.

score 11 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 17 '14 at 17:19

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You can actually still use the RedirectToAction with EPiServer, as long as you also supply the content reference of the page.

public ActionResult Index()
{
    return RedirectToAction("ActionName", new { node = ContentReference.StartPage });
}

This has been tested in EPiServer 7.5.440.0.

answered Mar 17 '14 at 17:19

aolde

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I really like this! – Robban Jun 16 '17 at 08:05

Thomas Krantz · Accepted Answer · 2014-03-11T13:57:48.460

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To redirect to any MVC action:

public ActionResult Index()
{
    return RedirectToAction("Index", "Home");
}

Redirect to the configured start page of the site:

public ActionResult Index()
{
    PageData startPage =
        ServiceLocator.Current.GetInstance<IContentRepository>().Get<PageData>(ContentReference.StartPage);

    // get URL of the start page
    string startPageUrl = ServiceLocator.Current.GetInstance<UrlResolver>()
                .GetVirtualPath(startPage.ContentLink, startPage.LanguageBranch);

    return Redirect(startPageUrl);
}

edited Mar 11 '14 at 13:57

answered Mar 11 '14 at 13:44

Thomas Krantz

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In EpiServer 11+ you need to access the VirtualPath on the object. In the above example the code should be: `return Redirect(startPageUrl.VirtualPath);` I just tested this on EpiServer 11 and not 10. – Nift Feb 13 '18 at 13:48

Michaja Broertjes · Answer 3 · 2014-03-11T14:14:10.897

You can use RedirectToAction() to redirect to a specific action or Redirect() to a specific URL. In ASP.NET MVC 4 you can use RedirectToLocal() in stead of Redirect(), this is recommended for security reasons when you use a parameter from the querystring.

public ActionResult MyAction()
{
    // Use this for an action
    return RedirectToAction("Action");
    // Use this for a URL
    return Redirect("/"); // (Website root)
    // Use this for a URL within your domain
    return RedirectToLocal("/"); // (Website root)
}

See this following links for more information:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.web.mvc.controller.redirecttoaction(v=vs.118).aspx http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.web.mvc.controller.redirect(v=vs.118).aspx

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Feb 13 '18 at 14:03

In EpiServer 11 I find it to be cleaner to utilize dependency injection instead of utilizing the ServiceLocator as suggested by Thomas Krantz.

Example using Dependency Injection:

public class SomeController 
{
   private readonly IContentLoader _contentLoader;
   private readonly UrlResolver _urlResolver;

   public SomeController(IContentLoader contentLoader, UrlResolver urlResolver)
   {
     _contentLoader = contentLoader ?? throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(contentLoader));
     _urlResolver = urlResolver ?? throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(urlResolver));
   }

   public ActionResult Index(SomePage currentPage)
   {
     //Retrieving an example startpage type
     var startPageContentLink =_contentLoader.Get<StartPageType>(ContentReference.StartPage);
     //Getting the redirect link -> Type: VirtualPathData
     var redirectLink = urlResolver.GetVirtualPath(startPageContentLink);

     return Redirect(redirectLink.VirtualPath);
   }
}

Naturally this lacks some validation, when using the content loader (it might throw an exception if your given StartPageType does not exist).

Redirect to another any episerver page from MVC controller?

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