Cant get my routing to work

I am trying to get a hold of using RESTful on MVC 4 to give me an API I can use on WP/Android/Iphone, so for starters (This method will be remade later, this is just for testing purposes)

I have a WP app that communicates with the server and sends it a json object and recieves a json object using restclient

private void ButtonOptionTap(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            RestClient client = new RestClient();
            client.BaseUrl = "http://localhost:21688/API/Account/Login";

            RestRequest request = new RestRequest();
            request.Method = Method.POST;
            request.RequestFormat = DataFormat.Json;

            User user = new User
            {
                UserName = "muhcow",
                Password = "123456"
            };

            request.AddBody(user);
            
            client.PostAsync<LoginResult>(request, (response, ds) => {
                LoginResult result = response.Data;
                System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine(response.Content);
            });
        }

And then I have my servercode which I first tried making a normal controller and then just making a controller called account and an action called login taking a httppost, and that worked fine, but from what I can read its not the way to do rest!

So I tried making a controller inheriting from apicontroller but now I got issues even getting routed to the Post action in the LoginController

So post is in Domain\API\Login\LoginController

And the post action is like so

    public string Post(Login loginModel)
    {
        LoginResponse loginResponse = new LoginResponse();
        if (Membership.ValidateUser(loginModel.UserName, loginModel.Password))
        {
            loginResponse.Success = true;
            loginResponse.Token = "11111111111111111";

            return Json.Encode(loginResponse);
        }

        loginResponse.Success = false;
        loginResponse.Error = 1;
        return Json.Encode(loginResponse);
    }

but with the current code that is not hit (Checking with breakpoints)

I havent changed the MapRoute yet so its just

    public override void RegisterArea(AreaRegistrationContext context)
    {
        context.MapRoute(
            "API_default",
            "API/{controller}/{action}/{id}",
            new { action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional }
        );
    }

Re: Cant get my routing to work

You need to use MapHttpRoute not MapRoute for WebApi to work:

routes.MapHttpRoute("Default API Route",
        "api/1.0/{controller}/{id}",
        new
        {
          id = RouteParameter.Optional
        });

Re: Cant get my routing to work

So my APIAreaRegistration needs to changed?

using System.Web.Mvc;

namespace WebSite.Areas.API
{
    public class APIAreaRegistration : AreaRegistration
    {
        public override string AreaName
        {
            get
            {
                return "API";
            }
        }

        public override void RegisterArea(AreaRegistrationContext context)
        {
            context.MapHttpRoute(
                "API_default",
                "API/{controller}/{action}/{id}",
                new { action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional }
            );
        }
    }
}

to something like this?

public static void RegisterRoutes(RouteCollection routes)
{
    var Route1 = routes.MapHttpRoute
    (
        name: "ClientApi",
        routeTemplate: "client/{controller}/{param1}"
    );
    Route1.DataTokens["Namespaces"] = new string[] {"Client"};

    var Route2 = routes.MapHttpRoute
    (
        name: "OrderApi",
        routeTemplate: "order/{controller}/{param1}"
    );
    Route2.DataTokens["Namespaces"] = new string[] { "Order" };
}

If yes, how do I do that for areas or should I change the Global.asax?