Question

My company is in the process of deprecating our Web Forms projects and using just MVC 3. The default folder for images in MVC 3 is ~/Content/images/.. The problem is that our WebForms was pointing to ~/images/..

We have clients who have direct links to https://www.myurl.com/images/imagename.png and we want it to automatically return the image at https://www.myurl.com/content/images/imagename.png instead.

What is the best route to handle this?

Answer 1

You could create an ImageController controller, something like this:

public class ImageController : Controller
{
    public ActionResult Index(string filename)
    {
        return Redirect("~/Content/images/" + filename);
    }
}

Then you’d set up your routing so that the URL /images/ goes to ImageController::Index.

public static void RegisterRoutes(RouteCollection routes)
{
    // ...
    routes.MapRoute(
        "ImageRedirects", "images/{filename}", 
        new { controller = "Image", filename = "" });
    // ...
}