MVC 4, create URL dynamic for pages

Question

Let's say I have a model called artikel. this article contains Html "body" text. and a one word title.

Then I want to make a system, where i can use one view to render all of "Article" model's body content.

but use the articles Title prop. to create a Url for the site.

So if i got 2 articles. one titled "About", and one with the title "Contact"

i would end up with Url like "site/About" And "site/Contact"

And since I'm trying to make this from a data source, I need some way to do this dynamic. so i can't just make controllers for each artikel. (Which would be bad if i got many articles anyways)

I been trying in my RouteConfig to setup a mapRoute. but can't find anyway which would do this.

I search the net for it, an tried those solutions.

http://www.dotnet-stuff.com/tutorials/aspnet-mvc/understanding-url-rewriting-and-url-attribute-routing-in-asp-net-mvc-mvc5-with-examples

URL Rewriting in .Net MVC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h405AbJyiH4

https://forums.asp.net/t/2094370.aspx?How+To+Create+URL+Rewrite+In+ASP+NET+C+using+MVC+

But no luck. Anyone that know's how to do this, or that can help me in the right direction.?

check this article may be That's what you want or give you another idea — Ali Besharati, Jun 13 '18 at 11:31
@AliBesharatinia sorry. but did you forget to post the link? — DaCh, Jun 13 '18 at 11:32
The problem is, that url `site/About` would override any other. How do you know About is not a controller? — derloopkat, Jun 13 '18 at 13:35
Is it good enough to have example.com/artikel/About and example.com/artikel/Contact etc? or do you need example.com/About. If it's the former you can have an action that gets the article name as a route parameter. You could then retrieve the appropriate page from your data source and render it somehow. — Baffour, Jun 13 '18 at 14:02

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 13 '18 at 14:09

There are many ways to solve this problem, for example you can set Artikel to be the default controller, creating new route, or a custom route, etc. I recommend to include artikel in the url website/artikel/pagename for finding the articles.

public static void RegisterRoutes(RouteCollection routes)
{
    routes.MapRoute(
        name: "Artikel",
        url: "artikel/{id}",
        defaults: new { controller = "Artikel", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional }
    );

    //default and other routes go here, after Artikel
}

In Artikel controller:

public ActionResult Index(string id)
{
    Artikel model = Database.GetArticle(id);
    return View(model);
}

Model:

public class Artikel
{
    public string Title { get; set; }
    public string Body { get; set; }
}

And the view:

@model MyApplication.Models.Artikel
@{
    ViewBag.Title = "Index";
}

<h2>@Model.Title</h2>
<span>@Model.Body</span>

I used this in combination with som URL rewrite. – DaCh Jun 14 '18 at 05:38 — DaCh, Jun 14 '18 at 05:38

MVC 4, create URL dynamic for pages

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