Question

I am stuck on trying to create another route in Global.asax.

I am creating dynamic pages for my website using MVC3. When I type this URL
/Home/GetPages/About%20Us

It pulls the correct Controller Method and pulls the data.

However, I am trying to modify it to this
/About%20Us

Below is the route I added to the Global file:

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

Any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

You were close; all you need to do is remove the default entry for PageName and change the URL template to remove the controller and action identifiers.

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

Also, make sure this route is mapped after your other routes, otherwise it’ll prevent them from working (because just about any URL except for the root will trigger this route).