MVC Areas Routing

Question

I have an MVC Application as follows:

Application
 Controllers
      HomeController
           ActionResult Index();
 Areas
      IT
           Controllers
                ITHomeController
                     ActionResult Index();

I have setup the links to work correctly between the main application and the IT Area.

In the URL the link to the IT area shows up as http://localhost/IT/ITHome. The code for the link is:

@Html.ActionLink("IT Page","Index","ITHome", new { area = "IT" }, null)

How would I have the url simply be http://localhost/IT I'm sure it's simple.

Thanks!

Answer 1

1. Look for /Areas/IT/ITAreasRegistration.cs
2. Add a route mapping in its public override void RegisterArea(AreaRegistrationContext context) method, preferably at the very top or at least before the default route for the area.

Something like:

context.MapRoute(
                "default_IT",
                "IT",
                new { action = "Index", controller = "ITHome" },
                new[] { "YourAppNamespaceHere.Areas.IT.Controllers" }
            );

3. As for the link... I'd just hand code it to <a href="/IT">IT Home</a> and be done with it unless you are hosting this as a sub application from the wwwroot, you should be fine.

In this way you can keep your area routes separate from your normal routes.