MVC3 - The resource cannot be found

Question

I've come across a bit of a weird problem I can't make sense of. One of my controllers has stopped working, but if I rename it then it works fine. I don't have any special routing wrapped around this controller, it just uses my default.

To give specifics, I have a controller called "Kangaroo". In the browser, if I go to {server}/Kangaroo, then I get the "The Resource cannot be found" message. However, if I go to {server}/Kangaroo/Index, then my page loads as normal. I don't have this problem on any of my other controllers, only this one. If I rename the controller (and my view folder) to "Kangaroo2", then it works perfectly fine.

Here is my route:

public class RouteDefinitions {
    public static void AddRoutes(RouteCollection routes) {
        routes.Ignore("{resource}.axd/{*pathInfo}");
        routes.MapRoute("Resources", 
                        "cache/{action}/{key}/{version}/{type}", 
                        new { controller = "Cache", 
                              action = "CacheContent", 
                              key = "", 
                              version = "", 
                              type = "" });
        routes.MapRoute("Default", // Route name
                        "{controller}/{action}/{id}", // URL with parameters
                        new {
                              controller = "Home",
                              action = "Index",
                              id = ""
                             } // Parameter defaults
                       );
    }
}

Does anyone have an idea of what could be going on here? I thought it might just be a weird visual studio thing, but restarting did not correct the issue.

Answer 1

Just figured out what the problem was. There was a folder in my project called "/Kangaroo". I guess it was treating it like a script or other content. Since the path existed it was attempting to load something from the path.