How to avoid the Response.Redirect of the root request?

Apologies if this has been covered before, but I can't find a reference to it.

You can find this issue in any projects created by the MVC0416.
In the file "Default.aspx.cs" , there is a line of code looks like "Response.Redirect("~/Home")", I know this is for processing the root request to the HomeController.
But the url was changed and almost every search engine isn't too fond of Response.Redirect.
That's the question.

I tried wrote a route to avoid this, but it doesn't work.
the route is:

            routes.MapRoute(
                "Root",
                "Default.aspx",
                new { controller = "Home", action = "Index" }
            );

When I request the root path, I got an empty page, and when I request the /default.aspx page, I got an XML parsing error.
In any projects created by the Preview 2 don't have this problem because of the last route configuration.
But it's not working in the new projects.

That's all. I'm looking for a solution for this.
Thank you all very much.

Re: How to avoid the Response.Redirect of the root request?

hi,

better to use "Server.Transfer", for single server. it will avoid the unwanted process of searching and finding the destionation server(URL).

Re: How to avoid the Response.Redirect of the root request?

shinyzhu
In the file "Default.aspx.cs" , there is a line of code looks like "Response.Redirect("~/Home")",

You can do it as below:

Step-1. Cooment the "Response.Redirect("~/Home")" code in the Default.aspx.cs page.

Step-2. RightClick on SolutionExpolre --> select "Properties" --> Select Web tab --> select "Specific Page" radiobutton --> write "Home" in the textbox --> save and run the application.

Re: How to avoid the Response.Redirect of the root request?

Here is an explanation of the issue from haacked.com

"The Dynamic Data Preview readme has the steps to update your MVC Preview 2 project to work with the new routing. Youll notice that the readme recommends having a Default.aspx file in the root which redirects to /Home. Technically, the Default.aspx file in the root wont be necessary in the final release because of the suggested routing changes (it is necessary now due to a minor bug). Unfortunately, Cassini doesnt work correctly when you make a request for "/" and there is no default document. It doesnt run any of the ASP.NET Modules. So we kept the file in the root, but you ~~can~~ will be able to remove it when deploying to IIS 7. So to recap this last point, the Default.aspx in the project root is to make sure that Cassini works correctly. It's will not be needed for IIS 7 in the future, but is needed for the time being."

Re: How to avoid the Response.Redirect of the root request?

so will it ever be possible to hit an mvc site with www.domain.com without it redirecting to www.domain.com/controller ?

Re: How to avoid the Response.Redirect of the root request?

jgo23
so will it ever be possible to hit an mvc site with www.domain.com without it redirecting to www.domain.com/controller ?

Yes. You can set the RouteExistingFiles flag to true, as described in http://haacked.com/archive/2008/04/10/upcoming-changes-in-routing.aspx. Alternatively, if you're using IIS7, you actually don't even need the Default.aspx file at all. Just delete it and everything should just work.