ASP.NET MVC 3 Routing With No Specific Controller

Question

I have a really interesting case:

I have a site where this is already working

• http://mysite.com/
• http://mysite.com/browse/mens
• http://mysite.com/product/1/cooltshirt

But I'd also like these urls to work as well

• http://mysite.com/farm
• http://mysite.com/farm/browse/mens
• http://mysite.com/farm/product/1/cooltshirt

the farm part is fake, it doesn't do anything except to exist for SEO, there is no corresponding controller or action associated with it

Essentially, I have a ton of routes already, but I'd also like the site to behave exactly the same if "farm" is appended after the "mysite" the hostname. So it's kind of like a subdirectory behaving exactly like going on the main site.

Answer 1

You can add a route with constraint. Make sure it's above the default route.

routes.MapRoute(
    "Farm", // Route name
    "farm/{controller}/{action}", // URL with parameters
    new { controller = "Home", action = "Index"} // Parameter defaults
);

It just makes sure URLs starting with "farm" gets their controller name from 2nd segment and action name from the 3rd segment.

Answer 2

I assume that you have a FarmController, you can just have them rout to your farmcontroller

routes.MapRoute(
    "Farm", // Route name
    "Farm/{controller}/{action}", // URL with parameters
    new { controller = "Farm", action = "Index"} // Parameter defaults
);