How to use Routing in MVC for SEO Friendly URL

Question

Generally we have following sample code in our global.asax file. So, my question is how we can have multiple MapRoute and how to use them ???

I want URL like:


http://domain/Home.aspx/Index/Cricket-Ball/12

        public static void RegisterRoutes(RouteCollection routes)
        {
            routes.IgnoreRoute("{resource}.axd/{*pathInfo}");

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

I want something like this, but i don't understand how to use this routing so that i can get SEO Friendly URL:


        public static void RegisterRoutes(RouteCollection routes)
        {
            routes.IgnoreRoute("{resource}.axd/{*pathInfo}");

            routes.MapRoute(
                "Default1",
                "{controller}/{action}/{productname}/{id}",
                new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", productname = UrlParameter.Optional, id = UrlParameter.Optional }
            );

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

Thanks in advance.

Please provide a sample of what url you would want to create — Ivo, Oct 03 '12 at 05:44
Check this http://stackoverflow.com/questions/734249/asp-net-mvc-url-routing-with-multiple-route-values. — Mohan, Oct 03 '12 at 05:49
@ivowiblo URL will be like : http://domain/Home.aspx/Index/Cricket-Ball/12 — Sham, Oct 03 '12 at 05:54
Also, why you want to add the .aspx? you know you could just do something like domain/home/cricket-ball/12 — Ivo, Oct 03 '12 at 06:15
@ivowiblo: that's right actually .aspx is not require and that is fine. In the above url Home is Controller Name and Index is Action Name — Sham, Oct 03 '12 at 06:38

score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited Sep 10 '13 at 19:48

Since that's not a generic url but a concrete one (pointing to a product), you could use:

public static void RegisterRoutes(RouteCollection routes)
    {
        routes.IgnoreRoute("{resource}.axd/{*pathInfo}");

        routes.MapRoute(
            "Products",
            "home/index/{productname}/{id}",
            new { controller = "Home", action = "Index" }
        );

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

So, everything not matching to "Products" route will go to "Default". Note that I didn't add the ".aspx" to the rout since I believe it's a mistake. If you actually want it, just add it to the route:

routes.MapRoute(
            "Products",
            "home/index.aspx/{productname}/{id}",
            new { controller = "Home", action = "Index" }
        );

Also, I would suggest to use a better url with:

routes.MapRoute(
            "Products",
            "products/{productname}/{id}",
            new { controller = "Home", action = "Index" }
        );

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 03 '12 at 06:03

The routing example you use is for ASP.NET MVC, not WebForms. You need to use a different variation as described in this blog post:

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2009/10/13/url-routing-with-asp-net-4-web-forms-vs-2010-and-net-4-0-series.aspx

Example:

routes.MapPageRoute(
    "route-name",
    "products/{id}",
    "~/Products.aspx");

Then in your Page_Load you would need to extract the the route value for id as such:

int id = Page.RouteData.Values["id"] as int;

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