MVC and long paths

beans

Trying to learn MVC, but getting a bit tangled up in routing of commands and URLs.

I have a website running at www.domain.com/site. COLOR="Gray"]When I was running it as 'www.domain.com' (from the root of the website), the below issue wasn't occurring.[/COLOR

I have a Controller and Method that takes an input Param, so at this point my URL looks like 'www.domain.com/site/Controller/Method/Param'. From here, I'm trying to access a different Controller. If I try to use Javascript to set the form.action to be 'NewController/NewMethod', I end up at 'www.domain.com/NewController/NewMethod'. BUT, if I try setting the form.action to '/site/NewController/NewMethod', I get an IOException telling me 'the device is not ready'

Most confused! Anyone got any ideas where I'm going wrong?

maxmarmalade

Which framework are you using?

beans

MVC4

I've been googling custom routing, reckon the answer lies somewhere in there...

Aswerty

For MVC 3.0 the second answer to this question http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9184645/how-to-add-route-parameter-before-mvc-choses-a-route shows how to add a route parameter before the controller name. Registering routes is done in the RegisterRoutes method in Global.asax.

See this for changes to the RegisterRoutes method in MVC 4.0 http://www.jondavis.net/techblog/post/2012/06/23/ASPNET-MVC-4-Where-Have-All-The-Globalasax-Routes-Gone.aspx.

GreeBo

I dont know MVC4 but this looks a bit like a relative path issue?

beans

GreeBo wrote: »

I dont know MVC4 but this looks a bit like a relative path issue?

Exactly, it was tricky to find exactly the best way to deal with it though.

In the end, I did something like this:

URL Rewrite