Question

I am working on an ASP.NET MVC application. For some reason, everytime I think I understand routing, something pops up that I don’t understand. Currently, I have two routes that I can’t seem to figure out. My directory structure looks like the following

- Views
  - Internal
    - Profile
      - Index.cshtml
    - Input
      - Page1.cshtml

In my global.asax.cs file, I have added the following mappings:

  routes.MapRoute(
    "UserProfileInfo",
    "{controller}/profile",
    new { controller = "Internal", action = "UserProfileInfo" }
  );


  routes.MapRoute(
    "Page1",
    "{controller}/input/page1",
    new { controller = "Internal", action = "Page1" }
  );

In MyController, I have the following:

  public ActionResult UserProfileInfo()
  {
    return View("~/Views/internal/profile/Index.cshtml");
  }

  public ActionResult Page1()
  {
    return View("~/Views/internal/input/Page1.cshtml");
  }

I want to store my actions in a single controller. I thought I had everything setup properly. But I continue to get a 404. What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

Remove the “Controller” suffix from the controller name in your calls to MapRoute to create a mapping to a class called InternalController. The Controller suffix is appended by the framework when looking for a matching implementation. e.g.:

    routes.MapRoute( 
    "UserProfileInfo", 
    "{controller}/profile", 
    new { controller = "Internal", action = "UserProfileInfo" } 
);