How to route a .aspx page in asp.net mvc 3 project?

Question

I have a .aspx page in the following path:

Areas/Management/Views/Ticket/Report.aspx

I want to route that to the following path in my browser:

http://localhost/Reports/Tickets

How can i do that?

I try this:

routes.MapRoute(
    "Tickets", // Route name
    "Areas/Management/Views/Ticket/Report.aspx", // Original URL
    new { controller = "Reports", action = "Tickets" } // New URL 
);

But i got the 404 error.

What i'm doing wrong?

Obs: I put that before the Default route.

Solution 1

Solved! So, we need to add a route contraint to the webforms route to ensure that it only catches on incoming routes, not outgoing route generation.

Add the following class to your project (either in a new file or the bottom of global.asax.cs):

public class MyCustomConstaint : IRouteConstraint{
    public bool Match(HttpContextBase httpContext, Route route, string parameterName, RouteValueDictionary values, RouteDirection routeDirection){
        return routeDirection == RouteDirection.IncomingRequest;
    }
}

Then change the Tickets route to the following:

routes.MapPageRoute(
    "Tickets",
    "Reports/Tickets",
    "~/WebForms/Reports/Tickets.aspx",
    true, null, 
    new RouteValueDictionary { { "outgoing", new MyCustomConstaint() } }
);

Solution 2

If you are trying to utilise web forms in a MVC project then I would move your .aspx out of the views folder, as it isn't really a view, so something like WebForms/Tickets/Report.aspx.

In web forms you map a route by calling the MapPageRoute method.

routes.IgnoreRoute("{resource}.axd/{*pathInfo}");
routes.MapPageRoute("Tickets", "Reports/Tickets", "~/WebForms/Tickets/Report.aspx");
routes.MapRoute("Default", "{controller}/{action}/{id}", new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional });

You'll need to put that before the default MVC route.

Comments

[Vinicius Ottoni]

If i put the Reports/Tickets how the site 'll route to my aspx page?

[Parv Sharma]

ull have to make a route handler.. currently ur url is getting mapped to Reports/Tickets which obsly dosent exists.. and hence ur getting 404. try returning a string from "Reports/Tickets" and ull see where u r wrong

[Vinicius Ottoni]

Dude, i don't want to see that i'm wrong. "I'm wrong", ok, i know (it's because i'm here ^^), now i have to know how to solve my problem. =) A code, an exemple, a link...

[Vinicius Ottoni]

But with this the url (when i return the .aspx page) will have the .aspx at the end, will not?

[coffeeyesplease]

No it will not. Have you actually tested it, (voting me down)? I've actually corrected the code so it will return localhost/Reports/Tickets

[coffeeyesplease]

if you trying to use crystal reports then you should check this answer stackoverflow.com/questions/348785/…

[Vinicius Ottoni]

When i run the project the browser redirect to the folling url "localhost:37538/Reports/…". Oo

[Vinicius Ottoni]

I saw it. The page is working (i've tested in another project), my problem now is only route it in asp.net mvc project.

[Vinicius Ottoni]

What i have to put in defaults? And in new CustomRouteHandler() you want to mean new ASPXRouteHandler(), right?

[coffeeyesplease]

Is your problem really in MVC, from what I've gathered from your previous comments you have webform doing the display, so perhaps what you need is the IIS url rewrite module to take of this specific page. learn.iis.net/page.aspx/461/… or do you have a controller to handle the request before sending to your view?

[Vinicius Ottoni]

When i run the project the browser redirect to the folling url "localhost:37538/Reports/…". Oo

[Parv Sharma]

do u have some kind of authentication in place.. like forms authentication?

[Chris Diver]

It's matching the default route at a guess, the line above needs to be directly after the routes.IgnoreRoute("{resource}.axd/{*pathInfo}") line

[Vinicius Ottoni]

I put that directly after the routes.IgnoreRoute("{resource}.axd/{*pathInfo}") and i got the same url. =/

[Vinicius Ottoni]

I cannot use this. The prerequisite is "IIS 7 with ASP.NET role service enabled." and my IIS is 6. =/

[Chris Diver]

I've just tried it in a new mvc project and that works fine for me. Are you putting /Reports/Tickets directly into your browser or clicking a link on another page?

[Vinicius Ottoni]

I'm running the project, and the browser redirects to this url. Oo

[Parv Sharma]

k then if u can authticate and then url this Url - "Reports/TIcket" it would be awsm.. becuz ur authenticated then u wont be redirected to the login url or ull have to add the Url Reports/TIcket to unauthenticated access by using webconfigs location tag. search it.

[coffeeyesplease]

How about this: hanselman.com/blog/…

[Vinicius Ottoni]

Put in you project a forms auth i see if when you try to access the root page, it's redirected to this url (block in web.config all paths if the user is not logged).

[Vinicius Ottoni]

Dude, i didn't understand what you said. What is "awsm"? And to you know, this page "Reports/TIcket" could only be access if the user is logged.

[Chris Diver]

I get redirected to http://localhost/Account/LogOn?ReturnUrl=%2f - I suspect there is in either your routing or web.config that's causing this. Maybe try it in a clean MVC project. Also this answer may help. stackoverflow.com/a/2747571/385149

[Vinicius Ottoni]

I cannot to use as pdf only. I need to use the ReportViewer.

[Vinicius Ottoni]

I debug the project, and i saw that after add the MapPageRoute, the project stops to enter in my Home Controller.

[Vinicius Ottoni]

When you run the project you're aready logged in? If yes, try to log off and you will see (i test in a separeted project too).

[Chris Diver]

No, if I was already logged in then i wouldn't get redirected to the Account/LogOn page.

[JabberwockyDecompiler]

Thank you CodeHobo for this solution. Reference

[Anup Sharma]

Thank you for your suggestion.

[Vinicius Ottoni]

I'm Vecthor. @JabberwockyDecompiler

[JabberwockyDecompiler]

Hmm, not sure why I put that, did you change your name?

[Vinicius Ottoni]

I made the same question there, so, with the answer of CodeHobo I put here. "I'm Vecthor" there. It is only a alias, codename, something like that ^^.

[JabberwockyDecompiler]

My friends call me Jabber :D, haha, actually I go by TJ.