Go to default route from any URL

Question

Current Route

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// Create the front-end route.
Route defaultRoute = routes.MapRoute(
    "CMS_Default",
    "CMS/RenderMvc/{action}/{id}",
    new { controller = "RenderMvc", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional }
);
defaultRoute.RouteHandler = new RenderRouteHandler(cmsContext, ControllerBuilder.Current.GetControllerFactory());

Desired Functionality

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I would like any URL to be picked up e.g. /home, /about-us, /contact-us and go to the current route above: /cms/rendermvc/home, /cms/rendermvc/about-us, /cms/rendermvc/contact-us as this is were it will take the URL segment or in the routes case the {action} and do the logic for getting the content from the database. I would like to do this without the use of a default {*url} route.

Current Ideas

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• I'm not very familiar with it but could ActionFilters be used in this instance?
• I believe this could be achieved by a default module?

Desired Functionality Examples

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Umbraco has the identical routing structure I am after, just with a lot more complexity.

Answer 1

I figured it out, as my question suggests I needed a IHttpModule. With help from this answer, I have now been able to get my desired routing!

For those of you that are curious, here is my code.

CMSModule

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using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Web;

public class CMSModule : IHttpModule
{
    public void Init(HttpApplication app)
    {
        app.BeginRequest += (sender, e) =>
        {
            var httpContext = ((HttpApplication) sender).Context;
            BeginRequest(new HttpContextWrapper(httpContext));
        };
    }

    private void BeginRequest(HttpContextBase httpContext)
    {
        Uri url = httpContext.Request.Url;
        string requestExtension = Path.GetExtension(url.LocalPath);
        if (!string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(requestExtension)) return;

        httpContext.RewritePath("/cms/rendermvc" + httpContext.Request.Path);
    }

    public void Dispose()
    { }
}

Web.config

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<configuration>
  <system.webServer>
    <modules>
      <add name="CMSModule" type="CMS.Web.CMSModule,CMS.Web"/>
    </modules>
  </system.webServer>
</configuration>

WARNING

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This is very basic code and I would not suggest copying it as I'm sure there are lots of edge cases that I'm not taking into account but for the moment, it works.

Answer 2

Try to add another route to your routeTable. for example :

Route HomeRoute = routes.MapRoute(
    "CMS_Home",
    "CMS/Home",
    new { controller = "RenderMvc", action = "HomeAction"}
);

Route AboutRoute = routes.MapRoute(
    "CMS_About",
    "CMS/About",
    new { controller = "RenderMvc", action = "About"}
);

So all these routes will address to RenderMvcController and different action.