Routing multiple URLs to the same view in ASP.NET MVC

Question

I'm having some trouble trying to configure my ASP.NET MVC project to route multiple URLs to the same view. Given the following URLs:

localhost:1234
localhost:1234/Products
localhost:1234/Products/1
localhost:1234/Products/abcd
localhost:1234/Products/whatever

I would like each of these to route the user to the same view (Products.cshtml, for instance).

Following an example on this site, I've decorated my Controller action with a special route attribute:

[HttpGet]
[Route("Products/{id?}")]
public ActionResult Products(string id)
{
 return View();
}

And in my RouteConfig.cs file, I have my default route set up:

routes.MapRoute(
 name: "Default",
 url: "{controller}/{action}/{id}",
 defaults: new { controller = "Products", action = "Products", id = UrlParameter.Optional }
);

The localhost:1234 and the localhost:1234/Products links both work, but this isn't working for the remaining URLs.

• Matti Virkkunen: Did you remember to call MapMvcAttributeRoutes() somewhere in your initialization code?
• alex: @MattiVirkkunen Oh god, no I didn't. This solves half of the problem, but I call this function, the default link is no longer working.
• user3559349: You can just add another route url: "Products/{id}", (with the same defaults) before the default route and remove the [Route("Products/{id?}")] attribute
• alex: @MattiVirkkunen Ultimately, I got this working with your suggestion and with the inclusion of a new routes.MapRoute declaration with a blank URL parameter. Could you post your comment as an answer?

Answer 1

The attributes all look correct to me, so you probably just forgot to map the attribute routes. Remember to call MapMvcAttributeRoutes() somewhere in your initialization code.