I am using the asp.net routing in a webforms application and I need to map the new url's and the legacy url's to the same route.
localhost/blog/?financial-literacy-efficacy
localhost/blog/financial-literacy-efficacy
The legacy url's have a question mark in front of the query string and the routing /{slug} is not picking it up.
i have tried something like this with no luck
routes.MapPageRoute("blog-slug", _
"blog/?{slug}", _
"~/blogArticles/Default.aspx")
Is this possible?
Thanks in advance.
By default, the routes will not accept anything after the ? as part of the page being routed to since by definition the ? separates the query string from the resource in the URL. One way that might work is
routes.MapPageRoute("blog-slug", _
"blog/", _
"~/blogArticles/Default.aspx")
But the "financial-literacy-efficacy" value will instead be a key since it is ?x not ?slug=x. However, since that is the legacy url, there might already exist some portion of your code that checks keys in query strings as opposed to values since most dynamic webforms legacy urls look soemthing like
blog/?slug=x
And then they check Request.Querystring["slug"]. You would need to provide more information in your question if that causes you trouble.
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I'm trying to migrate my ASPX site to Kentico, and as part of my task I'm migrating URLs. I need to preserve my URL structure, so I need to keep URLs which look like : "foo.com/bar.aspx?pageid=1".
I checked page's "URLs" property tried to use wildcards, some patterns like /bar/{pageid}- /bar/{?pageid?}-, etc but Kentico always replaces question marks.
Is there a way to achieve that via the admin interface?
You don't need to do anything in order to use "foo.com/bar.aspx?pageid=1" url.
Create a page under the root and call it bar, so you'll get a page # foo.com/bar.aspx. Kentico and/or .net does not care what you add to a url after question mark, so foo.com/bar.aspx?pageid=1 will work as well as foo.com/bar.aspx?someparam=sdf, or foo.com/bar.aspx?id=1&p=3&t=3.
You may (or may not) implement some functionality based on query string (e.g. paging), so it will parse query string and act in appropriate way.
By default Kentico UI does not handle adding URL aliases with URL parameters like you show. There is an article on the DevNet for a URL Redirection module which has code you can import into your site to allow you to perform these redirects within the Kentico UI. I'd suggest using this approach.
Unfortunately, I can't share a code sample since it's an article but it also has a link to download the code too. This appears to only be coded for Kentico 8.2 right now but I'm guessing you could do some work to make it work for other versions if you needed.
I think there are few concepts that you are clubbing here. I will start with your line code here
/bar/{pageid} - {pageid} is a positional parameter in Kentico's language if you choose to use dynamic URLS based on patterns. SO if you have a code that relies on pageid parameter to fetch some data then Kentico will pass that value. E.g in case of /bar/420, it will pass pageid as 420 different web parts on your template
/bar/{?pageid?} - This will search for query string parameter "pageid" on the request URL and replace its value here. So if you passed foo.com/bar.aspx?pageid=366, the resulting URL will be /bar/366
The #1 is positional parameter and #2 is the way in which Kentico resolves query string macros.
I hope this clarifies.
Backbone.js maintains routing information in a URL after the hash mark, e.g.:
http://localhost:3000#page/hardware/table/?action=details&actionTargetId=5&actionTargetName=10.3.177.185&actionTarget=host
Even though the routing information is in the format ?p1=v1&p2=v2&p3=v3, this portion is not technically part of the url query string since it comes after the hash mark.
My question is if I add an actual query string to our app's urls like this:
http://localhost:3000?newparam=newvalue#page/hardware/table/?action=details&actionTargetId=5&actionTargetName=10.3.177.185&actionTarget=host
is there any possibility of the "newparam" url parameter interfering with the backbone portion?
the problem is your not actually creating a legit query string. your mixing your route with your parameters.
your example is formatted as:
domain ? param # route ? other params
as soon as a questionmark appears in a url everything after it is interpreted as a query string. (in this case) even your route.
personally i suggest using the html5 pushstate.
Backbone.history.start({pushState: true})
this will give you clean(er) urls
http://localhost:3000/page/hardware/table/?newparam=newvalue&action=details&actionTargetId=5&actionTargetName=10.3.177.185&actionTarget=host
that will help your routes to not interfere with your parameters.
I have implemented a routing functionality successfully in my project (a news website):
Sub RegisterRoutes(ByVal routes As RouteCollection)
routes.MapPageRoute("ndetails", "news/{title}/{id}/", "~/newsdetail.aspx")
End Sub
and I set the URLs like this (databound to a repeater):
href="<%# Page.GetRouteUrl("ndetails", new with { .title= Server.UrlEncode(Eval("Title")), .id= Eval("NewsID")})%>"
The URL produced is like:
/this%20is%20a%20news%20item/89
As can be seen above, the URL part is difficult to read and I would like it to be like:
/this_is_a_news_item/89
I thought of going for a Replace function. But then, since the user creating the news might enter any string, I have to take into account all the other characters that might need to be replaced.
I just wanted to know from an experienced developer, whether going with a long replace function is the way to go, or is there another solution to format my URLs in this rouitng scenario.
Many thanks in advance
AFAIK there is no built in funcitonality in the framework to make url "pretty". You have to implement your own url fo rewriting the title.
In the save of your entities simply use a function that do the replaces that you need (' ' with '_' or example) and then use UrlEncode.
You can also use a Regular expression to do the replacement in one go.
Im adding the filevistacontrol to my asp.net MVC web application.
I have a media.aspx page that is ignored in the routing with
routes.IgnoreRoute("media.aspx");
This works successfully and serves a standard webforms page.
Upon adding the filevistacontrol, I can't seem to ignore any calls the control makes to it's webservice.
Eg the following ignoreRoute still seems to get picked up by the MvcHandler.
routes.IgnoreRoute("FileVistaControl/filevista.asmx/GetLanguageFile/");
The exception thrown is:
'The RouteData must contain an item named 'controller' with a non-empty string value'
Thanks in advance.
Short answer:
routes.IgnoreRoute( "{*url}", new { url = #".*\.asmx(/.*)?" } );
Long answer:
If your service can be in any level of a path, none of these options will work for all possible .asmx services:
routes.IgnoreRoute("{resource}.asmx/{*pathInfo}");
routes.IgnoreRoute("{directory}/{resource}.asmx/{*pathInfo}");
By default, the parameters in a route pattern will match until they find a slash.
If the parameter starts with a star *, like pathInfo in those answers, it will match everything, including slashes.
So:
the first answer will only work for .asmx services in the root path, becasuse {resource} will not match slashes. (Would work for something like http://example.com/weather.asmx/forecast)
the second one will only work for .asmx services which are one level away from the root.{directory} will match the first segment of the path, and {resource} the name of the service. (Would work for something like http://example.com/services/weather.asmx/forecast)
None would work for http://example.com/services/weather/weather.asmx/forecast)
The solution is using another overload of the IgnoreRoute method which allows to specify constraints. Using this solution you can use a simple pattern which matches all the url, like this: {*url}. Then you only have to set a constraint which checks that this url refers to a .asmx service. This constraint can be expressed with a regex like this: .*\.asmx(/.*)?. This regex matches any string which ends with .asmx optionally followed by an slash and any number of characters after it.
So, the final answer is this:
routes.IgnoreRoute( "{*url}", new { url = #".*\.asmx(/.*)?" } );
I got it to work using this (a combo of other answers):
routes.IgnoreRoute("{directory}/{resource}.asmx/{*pathInfo}");
What happens when you use:
routes.IgnoreRoute("FileVistaControl/filevista.asmx");
If that doesn't work, try using the ASP.NET Routing Debugger to help you:
http://haacked.com/archive/2008/03/13/url-routing-debugger.aspx
Try this:
routes.IgnoreRoute("{*filevista}", new { filevista = #"(.*/)?filevista.asmx(/.*)?" });
This is based on a Phil Haack recommendation stated here.
Have you tried:
routes.IgnoreRoute("{resource}.aspx/{*pathInfo}");
routes.IgnoreRoute("{resource}.asmx/{*pathInfo}");
It would help if you posted the source for your route configuration. I'm going to take a shot in the dark and say to make sure that your IgnoreRoute() calls are all at the top of your routing definition.
The way IgnoreRoute works is to create a route that matches the ignored route URL and constraints, and attaches a StopRoutingHandler as the RouteHandler. The UrlRoutingModule knows that a StopRoutingHandler means it shouldn't route the request.
As we know, the routes are matched in the order of which they are defined. So, if your {controller}/{action}/{id} route appears before your "FileVistaControl/filevista.asmx/GetLanguageFile/" route, then it will match the "{controller}/{action}/{id}" route.
I may be totally off base here, but it's hard to know without seeing your source. Hope this helps. And post source code! You'll get better answers.
The reason I'm asking is because IIS protects certain ASP.NET folders, like Bin, App_Data, App_Code, etc. Even if the URL does not map to an actual file system folder IIS rejects a URL with a path segment equal to one of the mentioned names.
This means I cannot have a route like this:
{controller}/{action}/{id}
... where id can be any string e.g.
Catalog/Product/Bin
So, instead of disabling this security measure I'm willing to change the route, using a suffix before the id, like these:
{controller}/{action}_{id} // e.g. Catalog/Product_Bin
{controller}/{action}/_{id} // e.g. Catalog/Product/_Bin
But these routes won't work if the id contains the new delimeter, _ in this case, e.g.
// These URL won't work (I get 404 response)
Catalog/Product_Bin_
Catalog/Product/_Bin_
Catalog/Product/__Bin
Why? I don't know, looks like a bug to me. How can I make these routes work, where id can be any string?
Ok, I have a definitive answer. Yes, this is a bug. However, at this point I regret to say we have no plans to fix it for a couple of reasons:
It's a breaking change and could be a very hard to notice one at that.
There's an easy workaround.
What you can do is change the URL to not have the underscore:
{controller}/{action}/_{id}
Then add a route constraint that requires that the ID parameter starts with an underscore character.
Then within your action method you trim off the underscore prefix from the id parameter. You could even write an action filter to do this for you if you liked. Sorry for the inconvenience.
You can use characters that are not allowed for a directory or file name like: *,?,:,",<,>,|.
With ASP.NET MVC if you look at the source they have a hard-coded value for the path separator (/) and to my knowledge cannot be changed.