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RPDeshaies
RPDeshaies

Reputation: 1874

How to disable default route on controller ASP.NET MVC 5

I'm building a web application (ASP.NET MVC 5) with a custom admin section where all the parameters of the apps are.

I want to be able to easily change the name of this section.

E.g. 

myapp.com/admin/{controller}/{action}

could be 

myapp.com/custom-admin-name/{controller}/{action}

I've tried to use areas but it seems like it would be hard to edit their name since all the controllers and models are bound to the area's namespace.

I've also tried to set custom routes 

routes.MapRoute(
    "AdminControllerAction",
    "custom-admin-name/{controller}/{action}",
    new { controller = "Dashboard", action = "Index" }
);

So I could do 

mywebsite.com/custom-admin-name/dashboard/index

But the problem with that is that my admin controllers and actions are still callable using

mywebsite.com/dashboard/index

Is it possible to cancel the default routing of a controller/action ?

Is there any more viable solutions to this problem that I wouldn't have thought about ?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 5489

Answers (2)

Daniel J.G.
Daniel J.G.

Reputation: 34992

There is a way to restrict the controller namespaces for a given route, so controllers which don't belong to those namespaces will be ignored.

For example, the following will be restricted to controllers in the namespace YourApp.Controllers (You can add multiple namespaces if needed):

Route route = routes.MapRoute(
    "Default",
    "{controller}/{action}/{id}",
    new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional },
    namespaces: new[] { "YourApp.Controllers" }                
);
route.DataTokens["UseNamespaceFallback"] = false;

Disabling the namespace fallback is important, otherwise you will just be prioritizing those namespaces.

So, you could restrict the default route to the namespace YourApp.Controllers as above and create a custom admin route restricted to the namespace YourApp.Controllers.Admin:

Route route = routes.MapRoute(
    "AdminControllerAction",
    "custom-admin-name/{controller}/{action}",
    new { controller = "Dashboard", action = "Index" },
    namespaces: new[] { "YourApp.Controllers.Admin" }                
);
route.DataTokens["UseNamespaceFallback"] = false;

Please note that as mentioned by Tareck, the admin route has to be defined before the general route.

Upvotes: 3

Dnyanesh
Dnyanesh

Reputation: 2343

Try removing with this 

RouteTable.Routes.Remove(RouteTable.Routes["NAME ROUTE YOU WISH TO RMOVE"]);

Upvotes: 1

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