Question

How to hide controller name in Url?

I use the ASP.NET MVC.

The original url is: http://www.sample.com/Users.mvc/UserDetail/9615

The ‘Users’ is controller name, the ‘UserDetail’ is action name, and the ‘9615’ is UserId.

How can I hide the controller name and action name in the url.

Just like this: http://www.sample.com/9615

I have writed the following code in the Global.ascx.cs to hide the action name:

routes.MapRoute(              'UserDetail',             // Route name              'Users.mvc/{UserId}',              // URL with parameters              new { controller = 'Users', action = 'UserDetail', UserId = '' }  // Parameter defaults             ); 

Using the above code I hid the action name and got this url: http://www.sample.com/Users.mvc/9615

But how can I hide the controller name and get this url: http://www.sample.com/9615

Thanks.

Answer 1

The idea is the same. You do just the thing you did to the action. However, your problem arises from the fact that IIS is probably not mapping http://www.xyz.com/1234 to ASP.NET runtime. To do so in IIS7, enable integrated mode and in IIS6, add a wildcard mapping in handler map that maps everything to ASP.NET.

To add a wildcard map, see http://haacked.com/archive/2008/11/26/asp.net-mvc-on-iis-6-walkthrough.aspx (Search for ‘IIS6 Extension-less URLs’ in that page)

After that, simply add a route:

routes.MapRoute('UserDetails', '{UserID}/{*name}',      new { controller = 'Users', action = 'UserDetail' , UserID=''}); 

This should do the trick.