Question

I want to make a route something like this:

routes.MapRoute(
            "Default", // Route name
            "{s}", // URL with parameters
            new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", s = UrlParameter.Optional } 
        );

Where s is a parameter for the default controller and action.. Is this possible? i would also settle for something like:

routes.MapRoute(
            "Default", // Route name
            "{controller}/{action}/{s}", // URL with parameters
            new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", s = UrlParameter.Optional } 
        );

        routes.MapRoute(
            "qMap", // Route name
            "sc/{s}", // URL with parameters
            new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", s = UrlParameter.Optional } 
        );

But neither work.. i suspect because the first element/paramater is always expected to be a controller?

Answer 1

If you have only the following route definition (make sure you have removed all other route definitions from your RegisterRoutes method):

routes.MapRoute(
    "Default",
    "{s}",
    new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", s = UrlParameter.Optional } 
);

and the following controller:

public class HomeController: Controller
{
    public ActionResult Index(string s) 
    {
        ...
    }
}

a request of the form http://foo.com/abc would be routed to the Home controller and the Index action will be invoked and passed s=abc.