MapRoute to specific action in Home controller

Question

Inside my home controller I have two views, Index and About .

I'm trying to configure requests to example.com/about to hit the About page.

Inside my Startup.cs file I have the below MapRoute's

        app.UseMvc(routes =>
        {
            routes.MapRoute(
                name: "default",
                template: "{controller=Home}/{action=Index}/{id?}");

            routes.MapRoute(
              "Id",
              "{id}",
              new { controller = "Home", action = "About" });
        });

This allow's requests to example.com/about to be passed into the About action. My problem is that it also captures all other requests after the forwardslash. For instance, requests to example.com/foobarr will also hit the About action.

How can I alter the MapRoute so that requests to example.com/about reach the About action, but anything else is ignored.

Answer 1

Isn't it better to configure routes inside controllers, specifying attributes above methods, for example:

 [HttpGet("Home/About")]

The custom attribute is for an action method for about route. In this case it is easier to handle specific routes.