Question

By default if url is ‘mydomain’ it go to controller home; action = index.

But when index action has params the url have to be:

mydomain/home/index?name=John

want to get:

mydomain?name=John

What should be define for create such url?

Thanks,

Yosef

Answer 1

Are you sure you want mydomain/home/index?name=John and mydomain?name=John as your urls in your site?

If you corrected your routing engine, your routes could be, mydomain/home/index/john and mydomain/john, which to me would be more correct.

Is that what you’re going for?

If so, assuming you have a Index action, accepting a string parameter of name in your home controller, you could modify your global.asax, and change the default route, and add a route below the standard default route like this:

     routes.MapRoute(
       "Default", // Route name
       "{controller}/{action}/{id}", // URL with parameters
       new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", name= UrlParameter.Optional } // Parameter defaults
     );

     routes.MapRoute(
       "NameOnly", // Route name
       "{name}", // URL with parameters
       new { controller = "Home", action = "Index" } // Parameter defaults
     );

Be sure you put the name only route at the bottom, as a string based parameter will match everything, so you need to match the more explicit ones first.