Question

I would like to change my default route values.

Right now, I have:

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

I would like to have: {controller}/{id}/{action}

It is not as simple as changing the value as I have already tried this. How do I approach this?

Answer 1

You will need 2 routes to accomplish this.

Just the rough idea, untested:

 routes.MapRoute(
        "Default", // Route name
        "{controller}/{id}/{action}", // URL with parameters
        new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id=@"\d+" } // defaults
    );

 routes.MapRoute(
        "Shorter", // Route name
        "{controller}/{action}", // URL with parameters
        new { controller = "Home", action = "Index" }         // defaults
    );

And do keep them in this order.

Not totally sure about the signature of the Actions, probably ActionResult Index(int? id)