Question

I am building an asp.net mvc website, after the user login he can access his profile section pages and currently these pages URL is like that http://www.example.com/profile , what I want is to make the URL like that http://www.example.com/USERNAME

How to write this route which will work just in profile page when the user login?

Update:

based on the answers below, I wrote it like this:

routes.MapRoute(
                "AccountSettins",
                   "AccountSettings",
               new { controller = "AccountSettings", action = "Index" }
            );

            routes.MapRoute(
                 "myRouteName",
                    "{username}",
                new { controller = "Profile", action = "Index" }
             );


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

and the controller:

[Authorize]
    public class ProfileController : BaseController
    {
        //
        // GET: /Profile/

        public ActionResult Index(string username= "")
        { ...

But now after the user login and his user name was “xyz” he can go to http://www.example.com/xyz and this will lead to the profile page, but if he also wrote the url http://www.example.com/abc he will go to the same profile page normally which is something strange from the user point of view, how to solve this issue?

Answer 1

In your Global.asax…

routes.MapRouteWithName(
    "routeUserProfile",
    "{username}",
    new { controller = "User", action = "Profile", username = "" });

In your User controller….

public ActionResult Profile(string username) {
    //conditional logic to check if username is user
    // render user profile with special user-only stuff
    //else
    // render only generic stuff about user
}