How do I redirect everything to a single controller?

Question

I have three specific routes:

    routes.MapRoute(
       "Home Page",
       "", 
       new { controller = "Home", action = "Index" } 
       );

    routes.MapRoute(
       "Admin Section",
       "AdminSection/{action}/{id}",
       new { controller = "AdminSection", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional }
       );

    routes.MapRoute(
       "Listings",
       "{controller}/{action}/{id}",
       new { controller = "Listings", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional }
       );

Basically, the first two routes work as planned, however, I want everything that isn't specifically in a route to be redirected to the listings controller.

I am still quite new to routing and have been trying to Google this for the past hour without any luck - I know exactly what is going on here, but, I don't know how to fix it.

I have used RouteDebugger, and I can see that it is hitting the route, but, the issue is that it will only go to the Listings controller if a controller is not specified - but, obviously there will always be something there.

I have tried a few different combinations - I thought I was on to a winner by removing the {controller} part of the URL and still defining the default value, but, I am not having much luck.

Does anyone know what I need to do?

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 23 '11 at 05:05

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How about this:

routes.MapRoute("Listings", "{action}/{id}", 
        new { controller = "Listings", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional });

site.com/test :

It'll go to action: test, controller: listing, id = blank

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answered Sep 23 '11 at 05:05

mnsr

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Once again, I feel like an idiot - This is exactly what I was trying to do, but, I made a mistake in the `new {...}` part which I didn't see until I copied your example in to it. Thank you so much. – Wil Sep 23 '11 at 05:15

Daryl Teo · Answer 2 · 2011-09-23T05:16:51.323

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Edit: As I understand it you want a catch-all route.

http://richarddingwall.name/2008/08/09/three-common-aspnet-mvc-url-routing-issues/

routes.MapRoute("Listings", "{*url}",
    new { controller = "Listings", action = "Index" }
);

Original:

I can't test this at the moment but

routes.MapRoute(
   "Listings",
   "{anythingOtherThanController}/{action}/{id}",
   new { controller = "Listings", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional }
   );

This should work.

In your Listings controller, just accept a string parameter "anythingOtherThanController" and it will get bound to it.

The main problem here is that /some/action will be mapped to the same action as /another/action. So I'm not sure what you're trying to do here :)

edited Sep 23 '11 at 05:16

answered Sep 23 '11 at 04:53

Daryl Teo

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+1 for all your help and I will read that (interesting) link when I have a bit more time... However, I accepted an answer as I tried it and it does exactly what I want. – Wil Sep 23 '11 at 05:21
No probs. As long as it fixes your problem. Sorry I couldn't understand your requirements :) Do test though, just in case. – Daryl Teo Sep 23 '11 at 05:22

kaps · Answer 3 · 2011-09-23T05:03:20.990

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Provide a default route and provide controller name as listings controller. Keep this route mapping at the bottom of all the mappings.

 routes.MapRoute(
   "Default",
   "{controller}/{action}/{id}",
   new { controller = "Listings", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional }
   );

Sorry I got sequence mixed.

edited Sep 23 '11 at 05:03

answered Sep 23 '11 at 04:53

kaps

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This does not work - I have already tried it... If I want a url of "http://site.com/bla" - this will try to load the bla controller with the default action of index .... I need it to load the bla action on the default controller of listings. (When I say try it, I mean lower down in priorities... if it was first, it would ruin the other routes). – Wil Sep 23 '11 at 04:55
This will capture everything, including AdminSection, wouldn't it? – Daryl Teo Sep 23 '11 at 04:55
I'd suspect if you did this, and someone typed in adminsection/whatever, it won't go to the adminsection route, instead this default route will try and execute it. – mnsr Sep 23 '11 at 04:56
Ohh I was confused for a moment about place (top/bottom). I used it earlier on one of my project. I have updated the answer. – kaps Sep 23 '11 at 05:09

How do I redirect everything to a single controller?

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