R – ASP.NET MVC routing fails when using default.aspx/controller/action style url

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I'm deploying an ASP.NET MVC site to a IIS6 webserver, so I'm using a default.aspx/{controller}/{action} style routing strategy.

However, for some reason it doesn't really work when using the default.aspx part. No matter the url, it always gets the default action (Index) on the default controller (Public).

I've been using the excellent Routing Debugger to see what's going on.

route fail http://img169.yfrog.com/img169/7532/routefail.gif

As you can see I'm requesting default.aspx/contact, which should match the 3rd route in the table.
Actually ANYTHING I write after default.aspx/ matches the two last routes in the table (I understand the last one).

I'm getting this behavior on both Cassini and IIS6.

Why is this happening?

Best Answer

RouteTable.Routes.RouteExistingFiles = true;

Now it works. Got the answer from here.

I think this info should have been on the asp.net/mvc site, like this page for instance.

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Going by the MVC Preview 4 code I have in front of me the overload for Html.ActionLink() you are using is this one:

public string ActionLink(string linkText, string actionName, object values);

Note how the second parameter is the actionName not the routeName.

As such, try:

Html.ActionLink("Items", "Items", new { UserID = 1 })

Alternatively, try:

<a href="<%=Url.RouteUrl("UserItems", new { UserId = 1 })%>">Items</a>

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Use the base controllers File method.

public ActionResult Image(string id)
{
    var dir = Server.MapPath("/Images");
    var path = Path.Combine(dir, id + ".jpg"); //validate the path for security or use other means to generate the path.
    return base.File(path, "image/jpeg");
}

As a note, this seems to be fairly efficient. I did a test where I requested the image through the controller (http://localhost/MyController/Image/MyImage) and through the direct URL (http://localhost/Images/MyImage.jpg) and the results were:

MVC: 7.6 milliseconds per photo
Direct: 6.7 milliseconds per photo

Note: this is the average time of a request. The average was calculated by making thousands of requests on the local machine, so the totals should not include network latency or bandwidth issues.

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