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Tricky Asp.net MVC URL Rewriting

Started by eibrahim · 10 months ago

I am working on an asp.net mvc application and I wanted to make the user’s main page (profile) be www.domain.com/username.  This is a problem because the routing engine in MVC treats the first item after the domain as a controller.  Ofcourse I could do a {*cat ... Continue reading »

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  • Nik

    1 year ago

    I've done exactly this for a project. It isnt ideal in that if you have a live system, and you subsequently need to add controllers, you need to check that *existing* users havent already used that controller name.
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  • Net framework programmer

    12 months ago

    hello,

    how i can route to main page without using MVC (We are using System.Web.Routing assembly)
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  • Emad Ibrahim

    12 months ago

    @Nik, you are absolutely right which is why I force user names to be 4 characters or longer. This way, worst-case-scenario, I can create a 3 letter controller. Not ideal, but a workaround.
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  • Emad Ibrahim

    12 months ago

    @Net framework programmer, I am not sure how to do that. I haven't used the routing library with non-MVC projects. Good luck and let us know what you find out.
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  • Marco

    11 months ago

    @Net framework programmer,
    Read this http://chriscavanagh.wordpress.com/2008/03/11/a... for routing with Web Forms
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  • danatkinson

    7 months ago

    Have you thought about what happens if you decide to create a controller which happens to be the same as a user's name?!

    I'm not sure this is a very future-proof way of working...
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  • eibrahim

    7 months ago

    You are absolutely right but I have worked around that by forcing users to
    use usernames with 6 or more characters and I also keep track of a list of
    banned usernames in the config file e.g. administrator, account, etc...
    It is not perfect but it works otherwise, you will be stuck with URLs that
    look like /user/eibrahim instead of just /eibrahim
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