Question

I have an ASP.NET MVC app with the following deployment requirements:

The URL structure must be something like:

http://server/app/%5Benterprise%5D/%5Bcommuninty%5D/{controller}/{action}/…

What I think I want to be able to do is intercept the URL before the MVC route handler gets its hands on it, remove the [enterprise]/[community] parts, and then allow MVC to continue processing as if the original URL had not contained those two segments.

Here’s why:

The application exposes multiple portals to multiple customers (enterprises), and each community within an enterprise has its own user population. This kind of scheme could also be served by physically deploying one application instance (binaries,content,web.config) into each [community] directory, but for logistical and performance reasons, I don’t think we want to go down this path. So I’m trying to virtualize it through routing tricks.

Any suggestions on how to go about this scheme, or alternate solutions would be appreciated.

We are on IIS 7, if that makes any difference.

Answer 1

You can use the following route before the default route

routes.MapRoute(
    null,
    "{enterprise}/{community}/{controller}/{action}/{id}",
    new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional }
);

You can then ignore {enterprise} and {community} parameters in your action methods.