Route Hijacking in umbraco 7

Question

I'm trying to set up route hijacking on Umbraco 7 with little success. I have a view called Home.cshtml , the top few lines of which are:

@inherits Umbraco.Web.Mvc.UmbracoTemplatePage
@{
    Layout = "Master.cshtml";
}

I added a controller:

-EDIT- updated question to include Index() controller action.

namespace CLIAUmbraco7.Controllers
{
    public class HomeController : Umbraco.Web.Mvc.RenderMvcController
    {
        public override ActionResult Index(RenderModel model)
        {
            string country = "";

            return base.Index(model);
        }
        public ActionResult Index()
        {
            return View();
        }     
    }

Sticking a breakpoint on the Layout line catches the site before it loads but HomeController is never called. Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

Answer 1

You are missing an Index() controller action. Your controller should look like this:

public class HomeController : Umbraco.Web.Mvc.RenderMvcController
{
    public override ActionResult Index(RenderModel model)
    {
        //Do some stuff here, then return the base method
        return base.Index(model);
    }

}

Take a look at the article on Umbraco website .

Answer 2

By default the controller needs to be called

[TheDocumentType Alias YouWantToHijack]Controller

If your document type is not "Home" then it will not be intercepted.