Question

Is it possible to create a final route that catches all .. and bounces the user to a 404 view in ASP.NET MVC?

NOTE: I don’t want to set this up in my IIS settings.

Answer 1

Found the answer myself.

Richard Dingwall has an excellent post going through various strategies. I particularly like the FilterAttribute solution. I’m not a fan of throwing exceptions around willy nilly, so i’ll see if i can improve on that 🙂

For the global.asax, just add this code as your last route to register:

routes.MapRoute(     '404-PageNotFound',     '{*url}',     new { controller = 'StaticContent', action = 'PageNotFound' }     );