MVC Action Alias Redirect

Question

I have an action in my HomeController like this:

    public ActionResult HowItWorks()
    {
        return View();
    }

I can access this by going to /Home/HowItWorks as you might expect.

How can I make it so that it will go to the same place if I go to /HowItWorks (omitting the "Home" prefix)?

I know I can change this in RouteConfig.cs but I was wondering if there was an attribute or something like that.

Answer 1

        routes.MapRoute(
            name: "HowItWorks",
            url: "HowItWorks",
            defaults: new { controller = "Home", action = "HowItWorks", id = UrlParameter.Optional }
        );

You can do it as above. and yes, you need to put it in RouteConfig.cs

If you want all your methods work like that you can use following:

        routes.MapRoute(
            name: "HomePages",
            url: "{action}/{id}",
            defaults: new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional }
        );

In this case though, you can use a single controller only, if and only if you dont define a custom route as follows:

        routes.MapRoute(
            name: "Default",
            url: "{controller}/{action}/{id}",
            defaults: new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional }
        );

Note that precedence of routes matters. ie: whichever is matched first will be embraced.

Answer 2

I know I can change this in RouteConfig.cs but I was wondering if there was an attribute or something like that.

Take a look at AttributeRouting , it's pretty cool.