Question

I’ve created a new ASP.NET MVC 3 internet application in Visual Web Developer 2010 Express, and I have noticed that with this default template, the path localhost:port/Home shows the same content as localhost:port/

Is there a way to remove the /Home? I would only like localhost:port/ to be the landing page.

Answer 1

Both urls work because that’s how the default route has been defined in Global.asax:

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

This means that all of /, /Home and /Home/Index will land to the HomeController/Index action. So in fact when you are request / it is the exact same action being executed.

You can modify it like so:

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

Of course by doing this the only controller and action you will ever be able to run in your application will be the HomeController and Index action. No other action or controller will be ever accessible as you don’t provide any means in the url to specify them. So I would leave the default routes as is because they allow to handle 99% of the cases unless you have some specific requirements.