Question

I am creating a site where I would like to have dynamically added pages. Because of this, I would like to have a simpler URL. What I am aiming for is a URL like the following:

http://www.mysite.com/my-page-url

Rather than a URL like the following:

http://www.mysite.com/pageController/my-page-url

MVC URLs tend to work like this: |url|/|controller|/|action|/|params|

What I would like to do is have: |url|/|params|

For the above URL, if the values of params does not equal the name of a controller, then I would like to pass those params to PageContoller.ProcessDynamicPage.

Answer 1

Depending on what your default params are, you could create a route constraint

    routes.MapRoute(
        "Default",
        "{Param1}",
        new { controller = "ProcessDynamicPage", action = "YourAction" },
        new {Param1= @"\d+" }
    );

This would work if your parameter is an integer.

If your default params are strings or something and you can’t create a regex, or something that can’t implement IRouteConstraint your best bet it to create a matching action for each of your controllers that way when it falls through the default you’ve already attempted to do the matching.

routes.MapRoute(
    "YourController",
    "YourController\{Param1}",
    new { controller = "YourController", action = "YourAction" }
   }
);

routes.MapRoute(
    "YourController2",
    "YourController2\{Param1}",
    new { controller = "YourController2", action = "YourAction" }
     }
);

routes.MapRoute(
    "Default",
    "{Param1}",
    new { controller = "ProcessDynamicPage", action = "YourAction" }          
);

If you have a lot of controllers, you should probably really look into how to create the constraint for what you’re expecting.