Question

I have a domain “http://www.abc.com”. I have deployed an ASP.net MVC4 app on this domain. I have also configured a default route in RouteConfig.cs as shown below

routes.MapRoute(
                name: "Default",
                url: "{controller}/{action}/{id}",
                defaults: new { controller = "MyApp", action = "Home", id = UrlParameter.Optional }
            );

The above mapping ensures that anyone attempting to visit “http://www.abc.com” is automatically shown the page for “http://www.abc.com/MyApp/Home”

Everything works as expected but the address bar in the browser shows “http://www.abc.com” instead of “http://www.abc.com/MyApp/Home”. Is there any way to force the browser to show the complete URL including the controller and Action?

Answer 1

One option would be to set your default route to a new controller, maybe called BaseController with an action Root:

public class BaseController : Controller
{
    public ActionResult Root()
    {
        return RedirectToAction("Home","MyApp");
    }
}

and modify your RouteConfig to point to that for root requests:

routes.MapRoute(
    name: "Default",
    url: "{controller}/{action}/{id}",
    defaults: new { controller = "Base", action = "Root", id = UrlParameter.Optional }
);