ASP.net core MVC catch all route serve static file
Solution 1
If you're already in the routing stage, you've gone past the point where static files are served in the pipeline. Your startup will look something like this:
app.UseStaticFiles();
...
app.UseMvc(...);
The order here is important. So your app will look for static files first, which makes sense from a performance standpoint - no need to run through MVC pipeline if you just want to throw out a static file.
You can create a catch-all controller action that will return the content of the file instead. For example (stealing the code in your comment):
public IActionResult Spa()
{
return File("~/index.html", "text/html");
}
Solution 2
I had to make some additions to @DavidG answer. Here is what I ended up with
Startup.cs
app.UseStaticFiles();
app.UseMvc(routes =>
{
routes.MapRoute("default", "{controller}/{action}");
routes.MapRoute("Spa", "{*url}", defaults: new { controller = "Home", action = "Spa" });
});
HomeController.cs
public class HomeController : Controller
{
public IActionResult Spa()
{
return File("~/index.html", "text/html");
}
}
Solution 3
ASP.NET Core catch all routes for Web API and MVC are configured differently
With Web API (if you're using prefix "api" for all server-side controllers eg. Route("api/[controller"]
):
app.Use(async (context, next) =>
{
await next();
var path = context.Request.Path.Value;
if (!path.StartsWith("/api") && !Path.HasExtension(path))
{
context.Request.Path = "/index.html";
await next();
}
});
app.UseStaticFiles();
app.UseDefaultFiles();
app.UseMvc();
With MVC (dotnet add package Microsoft.AspNetCore.SpaServices -Version x.y.z
):
app.UseStaticFiles();
app.UseDefaultFiles();
app.UseMvc(routes =>
{
routes.MapRoute(
name: "default",
template: "{controller=Home}/{action=Index}");
routes.MapSpaFallbackRoute("spa", new { controller = "Home", action = "Index" });
});
Solution 4
In case you don't want manually specify which routes are for api:
app.UseDefaultFiles();
app.UseStaticFiles();
app.UseMvc() // suggestion: you can move all the SPA requests to for example /app/<endpoints_for_the_Spa> and let the mvc return 404 in case <endpoints_for_the_Spa> is not recognized by the backend. This way SPA will not receive index.html
// at this point the request did not hit the api nor any of the files
// return index instead of 404 and let the SPA to take care of displaying the "not found" message
app.Use(async (context, next) => {
context.Request.Path = "/index.html";
await next();
});
app.UseStaticFiles(); // this will return index.html
Solution 5
What I'm using that works well is Microsoft.AspNetCore.Builder.SpaRouteExtensions.MapSpaFallbackRoute
:
app.UseMvc(routes =>
{
// Default route for SPA components, excluding paths which appear to be static files (have an extension)
routes.MapSpaFallbackRoute(
"spaFallback",
new { controller = "Home", action = "Index" });
});
HomeController.Index
has the equivalent of your index.html
. You can probably route to a static page also.
A bit off topic, but if you also have an API in the same project under an api
folder you can set a default 404 response for any API routes that don't match:
routes.MapRoute(
"apiDefault",
"api/{*url}",
new { controller = "Home", action = "ApiNotFound" });
You would end up with the following behavior:
/controller
=> No extension, so serve SPA default page fromHomeController.Index
and let SPA handle routing/file.txt
=> Extension detected, serve static file/api/controller
=> proper API response (use attribute routing or set up another map for the API controllers)/api/non-existent-route
=> 404NotFound()
returned fromHomeController.ApiNotFound
In many cases you'll want an API in a separate project, but this is a viable alternative.
Comments
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Mardoxx about 4 years
Is there a way to make a catch all route serve a static file?
Looking at this http://blog.nbellocam.me/2016/03/21/routing-angular-2-asp-net-core/
I basically want something like this:
app.UseMvc(routes => { routes.MapRoute("default", "{controller}/{action=Index}"); routes.MapRoute("spa", "{*url}"); // This should serve SPA index.html });
So any route that doesn't match an MVC controller will serve up
wwwroot/index.html