如何重定向到MVC3中的其他区域？

Question

I have 3 areas at the moment (more will come when I get this working): Login , User and Admin . The Default route in Global.asax go to the index action of the index controller in the login area ( Login\\Index\\Index ) which works fine, this is how I mapped that:

routes.MapRoute(
    "Default", // Route name
    "{area}/{controller}/{action}/{id}", // URL with parameters
    new { area = "Login", controller = "Index", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional }, // Parameter defaults
    new[] { typeof(AppName.Areas.Login.Controllers.IndexController).Namespace }
); 

each of the 3 areas is registered like this in the AreaRegistration files:

context.MapRoute(
    "Admin_default",
    "{area}/{controller}/{action}/{id}",
    new { area = "Admin", controller = "Index", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional },
    new[] { typeof(AppName.Areas.Admin.Controllers.IndexController).Namespace }
);

The Login controllers index action takes the users login details, looks up the type of user and redirects them to the appropriate area...... at least it should do. From what I can gather searching google, the correct way to redirect to a specific area is this:

return RedirectToAction("Action", "Controller", new { area = UserType });

which doesn't seem to work, it just redirects to Login\\Controller\\Action and I can't work out why.

In my attempts to work out what was happening I used this:

var url = Url.Action("Action", "Controller", new { area = "Admin" });

which produced the same Login\\Controller\\Action url.

Any help fixing this would be greatly appreciated

Answer 1

In the routes parameter, you just set new { area = "OtherAreaName" }.

EDIT

Oh, I see you already tried that. I suppose the name of that area is correctly referenced and correctly named in the class AreaRegistration class, like this?

public class AuthorAreaRegistration : AreaRegistration
{
    public override string AreaName
    {
        get
        {
            return "Author";
        }
    }

    // ...
}

Could it also be that you need authentication and you are being redirected to the login page?