Question

I am trying to write a rule to map a URL but so for I did not get the results I want. I have this rule so far:

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

using this I can achieve this result so far:

 localhost:8493/home/search/myproduct
 localhost:8493/home/search/myproduct/2

but i want to do something like this:

 localhost:8493/myproduct

so this will route to home/search/myproduct

I have tried the following but it didn’t work:

routes.MapRoute(
            "DirectSearch", // Route name
            "{product}/{page}", // URL with parameters
            new { controller = "Home", action = "Search", } // Parameter defaults
        );

Is there a way to do this?

Add:

So Here i added the specific route to map to another action but it doesn’t work:

routes.MapRoute(
            "Tuna",
            "{controller}/{action}/{id}",
            new { controller = "Home", action = "Tuna", id = UrlParameter.Optional }
        );

Answer 1

You’re close I think. This should work;

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

Just remember that the framework will read the route data from top to bottom and use the first one it finds that matches. So make sure the more specific routes are listed before the more general ones

Edit

Here’s a link to a discussion on custom routing