I did however miss the step (only talked about in option 2) about adding .mvc to the aspnet MIME types. Very important everyone. It will save you some headaches, just wanted to make sure nobody else missed it.

THANK YOU very much! This got me the last 1/4 mile in my MVC experimentation.


public static void RegisterRoutes(RouteCollection routes)
{
routes.IgnoreRoute("{resource}.axd/{*pathInfo}");

routes.MapRoute(
"Default2", // Route name
"{controller}/{action}/{id}", // URL with parameters
new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = "" } // Parameter defaults
);
}


The first one, Default, sets up the links so that they switch to having the .aspx extension (like Home.aspx). The second setting allows the root site with no page and also Default.aspx to be remapped properly to the Home controller.


public static void RegisterRoutes(RouteCollection routes)
{
routes.IgnoreRoute("{resource}.axd/{*pathInfo}");

RouteTable.Routes.RouteExistingFiles = true;
}


Any ideas what could be wrong?

Just from looking quickly at your two attempts there looks like one distinct errors that may be causing the issue for option2.

Option2:

RouteTable.Routes.RouteExistingFiles = true;

That needs to be included as above.

As for option 1 not working i’m not really sure. As long as you have set the aspnet_isapi.dll up as the default for all request then it should work.

The Default.aspx file should be fine as the default document, as this should still exist in your website.

I’m running ASP.NET MVC Beta and pages load fine in my local web server inside VS2008. I’m just trying to get the default page and Home/About to load. I’m deploying files using ftp, deleting all targets before publishing from VS 2008 SP1. Here is my Global.asax file using option 1:

public class MvcApplication : System.Web.HttpApplication
{
public static void RegisterRoutes(RouteCollection routes)
{
routes.IgnoreRoute(”{resource}.axd/{*pathInfo}”);

routes.MapRoute(
“Default”, // Route name
“{controller}/{action}/{id}”, // URL with parameters
new { controller = “Home”, action = “Index”, id = “” } // Parameter defaults
);
}

protected void Application_Start()
{
RegisterRoutes(RouteTable.Routes);
}
}

Here is what I used in my Global.asax file for Option 2:

public class MvcApplication : System.Web.HttpApplication
{
public static void RegisterRoutes(RouteCollection routes)
{
routes.IgnoreRoute(”{resource}.axd/{*pathInfo}”);

routes.MapRoute(
“Default”, // Route name
“{controller}.aspx/{action}/{id}”, // URL with parameters
new { controller = “Home”, action = “Index”, id = “” } // Parameter defaults
);
routes.MapRoute(
“DefaultTest”, // Route name
“Default.aspx”, // URL with parameters
new { controller = “Home”, action = “Index”, id = “” } // Parameter defaults
);

}

protected void Application_Start()
{
RegisterRoutes(RouteTable.Routes);
}
}

I’m have my site set up as a virtual directory under the Default web site. Should The Documents-Enable Default Content Page be set for ASP.NET MVC apps? If so what should the single file entry be if you want it to load the default page (Default, Default.aspx, /Home/Index)?