How to Change ASP.NET MVC Controller Name in URL?

c# asp.net-mvc url controller

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Solution 1

You need to use Attribute Routing, a feature introduced in MVC 5.

Based on your example you should edit your controller as follows:

[RoutePrefix("example-name")]
public class example_nameController : Controller
{
    // Route: example-name/Index
    [Route]
    public ActionResult Index()
    {
        return View();
    }

    // Route: example-name/Contact
    [Route]
    public ActionResult Contact()
    {
        ViewBag.Message = "Your contact page.";

        return View();
    }
}

Using the RoutePrefix attribute on top of your controller will allow you to define the route on the entire controller.

As said before, this feature is available natively in MVC 5, if you are using a previous version of MVC you need to add the following NuGet package: AttributeRouting and add the following using in your controller:

using AttributeRouting;
using AttributeRouting.Web.Mvc;

If you have another controller called example_name2Controller and you want to add an hyperlink that link to it you can easily do it as follows:

@Html.ActionLink("Go to example-name2", "Index", "example_name2");

You don't need to call an action that will redirect to the example_name2Controller, but if you need to do it in other occasions, you can do it like this:

public ActionResult RedirectToExample_Name2Controller()
{
    return RedirectToAction("Index", "example_name2");
}

Solution 2

You can do this via the Routes.cs

routes.MapRoute(
      name: "Controller",
      url: "example-controller/{action}",
      defaults: new { 
      controller = "ControllerName", action ="Index"
      }   
);

There is also another way, if you look at the answer of this question: How to achieve a dynamic controller and action method in ASP.NET MVC?

Solution 3

user449689s answer is good, but he forgot to mention you need to add

routes.MapMvcAttributeRoutes();

into RegisterRoutes() of your RouteConfig.cs

Solution 4

You can use Attribute Routing.

[RoutePrefix("Users")]
public class HomeController : Controller
{
    //Route: Users/Index
    [Route("Index")]
    public ActionResult Index()
    {
        return View();
    }
}

Solution 5

you can specified in Routes.cs

 routes.MapRoute(
 name: "College",
 url: "Student/{studentId}",
 defaults: new { controller = "Student", action = "Details"}
 );

We can define such a constraint as

  routes.MapRoute(
  name: "College",
  url: "Student/{studentId}", 
  defaults: new { controller = "Student", action = "Details"},
  constraints:new{id=@"\d+"} 
  );

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Updated on July 05, 2022

Comments

Cagatay almost 2 years

If we have "example_name" we can change it in url using [ActionName("")] So, i want to do this for controller name.

I can do this:

ControllerName > example_nameController > in URL: "/example_controller"

I would like to change controller name like this in URL: "/example-conroller"
Cagatay over 8 years

thank you. for this example; we will create a lot of maproutes. i am looking for different solutions?
Jamie Rees over 8 years

@Cagatay Update my answer.
Cagatay over 8 years

thanks for detailed answer. it's better and it helped me. i have another question. I have different controller, let's say "example_controller2", when i click "Contact" then i want to go "example_controller2" I searched and i think i will use "RedirectToRoute". It's kind of "RedirectToAction" but i didn't make it work.
Cagatay over 8 years

thank you. i'm using mvc 5 and it's better solution.
AarónBC. almost 6 years

Nice addition, it's also worth mention that this line must be placed before any routes.MapRoute call in order for it to work.
koolahman almost 5 years

I know this is old, but I needed to include using RoutePrefixAttribute = AttributeRouting.RoutePrefixAttribute; to clarify ambiguity with the System Route Prefix Attribute (for MVC < 5)
Arfat over 4 years

routes.MapRoute( "ClientDetailLevel1", "Clients/{id}", new { controller = "Clients", action = "Index" });