How to route a .aspx page in asp.net mvc 3 project?
I have a .aspx page in the following path:
Areas/Management/Views/Ticket/Report.aspx
I want to route that to the following path in my browser:
http://localhost/Reports/Tickets
How can i do that?
I try this:
routes.MapRoute(
"Tickets", // Route name
"Areas/Management/Views/Ticket/Report.aspx", // Original URL
new { controller = "Reports", action = "Tickets" } // New URL
);
But i got the 404
error.
What i'm doing wrong?
Obs: I put that before the Default
route.
Solution 1:
If you are trying to utilise web forms in a MVC project then I would move your .aspx out of the views folder, as it isn't really a view, so something like WebForms/Tickets/Report.aspx.
In web forms you map a route by calling the MapPageRoute
method.
routes.IgnoreRoute("{resource}.axd/{*pathInfo}");
routes.MapPageRoute("Tickets", "Reports/Tickets", "~/WebForms/Tickets/Report.aspx");
routes.MapRoute("Default", "{controller}/{action}/{id}", new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional });
You'll need to put that before the default MVC route.
Solution 2:
Solved! So, we need to add a route contraint to the webforms route to ensure that it only catches on incoming routes, not outgoing route generation.
Add the following class to your project (either in a new file or the bottom of global.asax.cs):
public class MyCustomConstaint : IRouteConstraint{
public bool Match(HttpContextBase httpContext, Route route, string parameterName, RouteValueDictionary values, RouteDirection routeDirection){
return routeDirection == RouteDirection.IncomingRequest;
}
}
Then change the Tickets route to the following:
routes.MapPageRoute(
"Tickets",
"Reports/Tickets",
"~/WebForms/Reports/Tickets.aspx",
true, null,
new RouteValueDictionary { { "outgoing", new MyCustomConstaint() } }
);