Question

i have two controllers with the same name in different sub folder
My Controllers looks like

• Controllers
  • api
    • UserController
  • help
    • UserController

I want to access my first controller when the user requests http://mysite/api/User/Index

and access my second controller when the user requests http://mysite/help/User/Index

how to configure routing in Global.asax and how the views folders will look like?

will it look like?

• Views
  • User
    • api
      • Index
    • help
      • Index

Thanks and Regards.

Answer 1

You could use namespace constraints:

routes.MapRoute(
    "help",
    "help/{controller}/{action}",
    new { controller = "User", action = "Index" },
    new[] { "MvcApplication1.Controllers.help" }
);

routes.MapRoute(
    "api",
    "api/{controller}/{action}",
    new { controller = "User", action = "Index" },
    new[] { "MvcApplication1.Controllers.api" }
);

As far as having sub-folders for your Views is concerned, this is not supported out of the box. You will have to write a custom view engine for this to work.

By the way have you considered using Areas? They seem like better fit for your scenario. So you would define 2 areas: help and api and have the UserController defined in both.