Change Controller Route in ASP.NET Core

Question

So I have a HomeController, to access it along with Actions I have to type url.com/home/action.

Would it be possible to change this to something else like url.com/anothernamethatpointstohomeactually/action?

Answer 1

I suggest you to use attribute routing, but of course it depends on your scenario.

[Route("prefix")]
public class Home : Controller {

    [HttpGet("name")]
    public IActionResult Index() {
    }

}

This will be found at url.com/prefix/name

There are a lot of options to attribute routing, some samples:

[Route("[controller]")] // there are placeholders for common patterns 
                           as [area], [controller], [action], etc.

[HttpGet("")] // empty is valid. url.com/prefix

[Route("")] // empty is valid. url.com/

[HttpGet("/otherprefix/name")] // starting with / won't use the route prefix

[HttpGet("name/{id}")]
public IActionResult Index(int id){ ... // id will bind from route param.

[HttpGet("{id:int:required}")] // you can add some simple matching rules too.

Check Attribute Routing official docs

Answer 2

Using the Route attribute on top of your controller will allow you to define the route on the entire controller. [Route("anothernamethatpointstohomeactually")]

You can read more here.