Question

I would like to create a route for my MVC page that looks like this:

/Articles/
/Articles/Page/2
/Articles/Page/3

I want the default page to be 1, but if the page is 1, then don’t actually show the /Page/ piece.

I started out with:

routes.MapRoute(
    "Articles",
    "Articles/Page/{page}",
            new { controller = "Articles", action = "Index", page = 1 }
);

The problem with this is that when I do:

 <%= Html.RouteLink("Articles", new { page = 1 }) %>

My route ends up being: /Articles/Page/

Answer 1

You might need two route definitions for this (untested):

routes.MapRoute(
    "ArticlesDefault",
    "Articles",
    new { controller = "Articles", action = "Index", page = 1 }
);

routes.MapRoute(
    "Articles",
    "Articles/Page/{page}",
    new { controller = "Articles", action = "Index" }
);

and your controller action:

public ActionResult Index(int page)
{
    ...
}