How to configure routes in asp.net mvc with Areas

Question

I am working on asp.net mvc 3. I have three areas in my project like,

MyProject/Areas/Blogs
MyProject/Areas/Forums
MyProject/Areas/Groups

Among these three, blogs view is startup view. for that i have set the globla.ascx as

routes.MapRoute(
                "Default", // Route name
                "{controller}/{action}/{id}", // URL with parameters
                new { controller = "Blog", action = "Blog", id = UrlParameter.Optional }
            );

and in BlogAreaRegistration.cs,

context.MapRoute(
                "Blogarea_Default",
                "{controller}/{action}/{id}",
                new { controller = "Blog", action = "Blog", id = UrlParameter.Optional }
            );

and in ForumAreaRegistration.cs,

context.MapRoute(
                null,
                "Forums/{action}/{id}",
                new {controller="Forums", action = "Forum", id = UrlParameter.Optional }
            );

and in GroupsAreaRegisration.cs,

   context.MapRoute(
        "Groups_default",
        "Groups/{controller}/{action}/{id}",
        new { controller = "Groups", action = "Group", id = UrlParameter.Optional }
    );

Here Forum and Blog are work as i desire but the Group does not work it always shows 404 Resource not found page so please guide me if i did any mistake in the process.

Answer 1

You should remove either Groups/ or {controller}/ from your GroupsAreaRegisration.cs code block - then it should work. I'd remove {controller}/, so the code will be:

context.MapRoute(
    "Groups_default",
    "Groups/{action}/{id}",
    new { controller = "Groups", action = "Group", id = UrlParameter.Optional }
);

Also in BlogAreaRegistration.cs I'd replace {controller} with Blog, as you might get quite unexpected results otherwise. The complete code here will be

context.MapRoute(
    "Blogarea_Default",
    "Blog/{action}/{id}",
    new { controller = "Blog", action = "Blog", id = UrlParameter.Optional }
);

Answer 2

Try change

 context.MapRoute(
        "Groups_default",
        "Groups/{controller}/{action}/{id}",
        new { controller = "Groups", action = "Group", id = UrlParameter.Optional }
    );

for:

 context.MapRoute(
        "Groups_default",
        "Groups/{action}/{id}",
        new { controller = "Groups", action = "Group", id = UrlParameter.Optional }
    );