ASP.NET MVC Routing - Redirect to Route when Action Name and Url is same

Question

I need to redirect on different action based on role. I have made following changes to RouteConfig.cs.

RouteConfig.cs

          routes.MapRoute(
            name: "borrower",
            url: "borrower",
            defaults: new { controller = "Home", action = "Borrower" });

        routes.MapRoute(
            name: "broker",
            url: "broker",
            defaults: new { controller = "Home", action = "Broker" });                

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

Here is my controller

HomeController.cs

public class HomeController : Controller
{
    public ActionResult Index()
    {
        if (UserPrincipal.Current.Identity.IsAuthenticated)
        {
            if (UserPrincipal.Current.IsInRole("Broker"))
            {
                return RedirectToRoute("broker");                    
            }
            else if (UserPrincipal.Current.IsInRole("Borrower"))
            {
                return RedirectToRoute("borrower");
            }                
        }
        return View();
    }

    public ActionResult Broker()
    {
        return View(); 
    }
    public ActionResult Borrower()
    {
        return View();
    }
}

Code flow is working properly till return RedirectToRoute("")but after this code flow never goes to related/appropriate action and empty view is returned.

NOTE: Both Broker and Borrower views are not empty they have static text.

In network tab you can see proper redirect is being performed and URL in browser is being set to route URL.

RedirectToRoute("Broker") result in 302 response and user is redirected to abc.com/broker as it should but abc.com/broker does not hit Broker action method in HomeController and empty view is returned. According to RouteConfig.cs it should hit Broker action method.

Please point out what I'm doing wrong here.

Answer 1

It turned out that I had a directory named "Borker" and "Borrower" at root of the web project. Due to this MVC routing module was being ignored and requests (abc.com/broker and abc.com/borrower) was moved to these directory. So I renamed these directories and everything worked as expected :)