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Merijn
Merijn

Reputation: 575

Routing static files in ASP.NET MVC 3 like robots.txt

I would like to have the following link "http://mywebsite.com/robots.txt" linked to a static file ~/Content/robots.txt.

How can I do this?

Thanks, Merijn

Upvotes: 14

Views: 4925

Answers (6)

yezior
yezior

Reputation: 877

You could install Url Rewrite module: http://www.iis.net/downloads/microsoft/url-rewrite
Remember that this module works on IIS and not on Cassini/IIS Express.

And add following rule to your web.config to section <system.webServer>

<rewrite>
    <rules>
        <rule name="robots" stopProcessing="true">
            <match url="robots.txt" />
            <action type="Rewrite" url="/Content/robots.txt" />
        </rule>
    </rules>
</rewrite>

I checked it on new MVC 3 .NET project and both url responses with the same file: mywebsite.com/robots.txt
mywebsite.com/Content/robots.txt

Upvotes: 7

Greg
Greg

Reputation: 23483

I was able to do this by rewriting paths in an event handler for BeginRequest in global.asax.

BeginRequest += delegate
{
    switch (Request.RawUrl.ToLowerInvariant())
    {
        case "/favicon.ico":
            Context.RewritePath("~/Content/favicon.ico");
            return;
        case "/robots.txt":
            Context.RewritePath("~/Content/robots.txt");
            return;
    }
};

Upvotes: 0

Robert
Robert

Reputation: 1

 routes.MapRoute("Robots","robots.txt");

Upvotes: -1

James Lawruk
James Lawruk

Reputation: 31353

Adding a route like this should do the trick. This way any static .txt file like robots.txt can be served.

routes.IgnoreRoute("{resource}.txt");

Upvotes: 11

Ashok Padmanabhan
Ashok Padmanabhan

Reputation: 2120

You can setup routing request for disk files. By default the routing system checks to see if the url matches the disk file before evaluating the application's routes. If there is a match the disk file is served and routes are not used. However this can be reveresed so routes are looked at before disk files are checked by setting the RouteExisitingFiles property of RouteCollection to true. Place this statement close to the top of the RegisterRoutes method - this just seems to be convention for mvc apps. Then you define a route that for the disk files. Be aware when doing this that there can some unforseen effects because the riute could natch other kinds of URLs.

Upvotes: 5

Nathanael
Nathanael

Reputation: 24

Solution 1: If you specify the URL. Browser will request this to IIS or webserver. MVC doesn't participate in the reading file etc. It gives these requests to IIS to handle. You need to assign permission to the folder.

Solution 2: Read the file in the PresentationModel if you have. read this file in Chunks and return as File type to the browser.

I hope it will give you some direction.

Upvotes: 0

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