I noticed a lot of ASP .Net sites does not have the URL ending with ".aspx".
An example would be:
- https://stackoverflow.com/questions
Did they create a Questions folder and put a Default.aspx inside?
In that case, wouldn't there be A LOT of default.aspx in many folders which is hard to maintain (even though it is user-friendly)?
Thanks y'all.
StackOverflow is written using ASP.NET MVC. The MVC framework does not use .aspx files.
The way it works internally is by using routing tables - see an overview here.
You can also do this with ASP.NET and .aspx files or you can use URL rewriting. You can read about the differences here.
You can refer to any URL rewriter or a routing technique for that. If you look at the new AS{.NET MVC, it works on that model only.
You can use Url Rewriter to remove extensions from the urls of your website.
ASP.net has a routing framework you can use even if you are not using ASP.net MVC
Official documentation: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc668201.aspx
Also as previously stated ASP.net MVC works like this out of the box and you can also use URL Rewriting
With ASP.NET 4.0, you get the benefits of URL routing (nice, clean URLs) with ASP.NET webforms, too — see:
Routing for Web Forms in ASP.NET 4.0
URL Routing with ASP.NET 4 Web Forms (VS 2010 and .NET 4.0 Series)
Basically, what you do is define a route like
/question/{id} or /question/{title}
and you then define what ASPX page this is being routed to. Quite nifty!
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I have created a blog application with ASP.NET MVC and MSSQL. I must say, i really enjoyed the process of creating an application with ASP.NET MVC. Clean URLS(with URL routing), No view States and so on.
BUT i was wondering how would this would have been done if i choose web-form style coding? will the aspx would be created in the fly as i create a article.(take this url for ex: http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2010/10/06/announcing-nupack-asp-net-mvc-3-beta-and-webmatrix-beta-2.aspx) though the URL is not clean but still makes sense. if yes then what about its corresponding cs file? if no how is the URL so clean?
Would be great if someone throw some light on how it is done in ASP.NET.
Thank you, Faraaz.
If your using .NET 4, you can make use of MapPageRoute to accomplish the clean URL's with regular Web Forms.
routes.MapPageRoute("MySuperCleanRoute", "some/clean/url", "~/ActualPage.aspx");
With the addition of MapPageRoute, you no longer have the feeling "I should use ASP.NET MVC because i want clean URL's".
Choose ASP.NET MVC if you like the pattern. If your used to Web Forms, use it - and use MapPageRoute to achieve clean URL's (or use a URL Rewriting module if <= .NET 4)
A blog in ASP .NET would have been done in much the same way. The idea is to use one file and URL rewriting. IIS7 has URL rewriting built in but for IIS6 you can use something like ISAPI_Rewrite to handle .htaccess style files (which is what Apache uses).
ASP .NET MVC handles all this for you in its routing but you can do it yourself using a URL rewriting tool. The difference is that for MVC, the application handles the rewriting but ISAPI_Rewrite, IIS Rewriting are done by the server. This can change a URL like http://mysite.com/something/other to http://mysite.com/file.asp?p1=something&p2=other.
The second link is only internal to the server (it doesn't actually change the URL in the user's address bar). In the case of a URL like on Scott's blog, you could store the 'announcing-nupack-asp...' bit in a database as part of the article row so your blog article page has something to look for. The files don't actually exist on the server but the rewriting passes all requests to an existing file with parameters.
Note that this technique is common for lots of different sites - not just blogs. Notice the Stack Overflow URL, Twitter URLs, etc.
MSDN has an old article on URL Rewriting in ASP .NET, along with some examples of filters you can use.
See IIS URL Rewrite Module
You can use the URL Rewriting that is in asp.net MVC with WebForms if you are using .Net Framework 3.5 SP1 (if you don't have access to .Net 4)
Here's an MSDN magazine article explaning...
What is best solution to serve ASP.NET web pages without aspx extension? I want to make http://www.mydomain.com/mypage instead of http://www.mydomain.com/mypage.aspx
I use .NET 2.0 and IIS6
If you can upgrade to .Net 4.0,which got a built-in URL Routing feature to do it for you easily,read this article by Scott Mitchel
otherwise if you don't want to move to .net 4.0,read this article by Scott Gu
Url rewriting.
For .NET there are already modules available like this one.
For IIS 6.0 you can use ionics ISAPI URL Rewrite filter http://iirf.codeplex.com/ for extention less urls
i have a classic web project and i want to use asp.net mvc url routing just for rewrite url. is it possible without make much changes to my web project?
Routing is not part of ASP.NET MVC - it's just part of ASP.NET itself. The good news is that it works with both MVC and WebForms (ASPX files). Check out Phil Haack's blog post on how to get this to work.
The only changes you need to make to your application are to add some configuration items to web.config and then register your routes in global.asax.cs (or global.asax.vb if you're using VB).
System.Web.Routing, while shipped with ASP.NET MVC, is not technically part of the MVC framework. You can in fact use it as part of a regular ASP.NET webforms project.
Definitly possible for .net 4.0, so like in 2 months.
Also, google shows alot of content on how to do it today.
As others have said routing is now built into .net 4 and can be used for both mvc and web forms. ScottGu has a post about how to use routing in webforms and can be found here.
Hope it helps.
I'd like to know if it is possible to have the URLs of the pages of a Webforms application display without the .aspx extension.
For instace, http://stackoverflow.com/questions/ask instead of http://stackoverflow.com/questions/ask.aspx
The technology that stackoverflow uses has been discussed many many times, what you are looking for is the ASP.Net MVC Framework
http://www.asp.net/mvc
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/asp.net-mvc
This can also be done using URL rewriters
http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2007/02/26/tip-trick-url-rewriting-with-asp-net.aspx
This can be done by using either ASP.NET MVC or the routing engine by itself.
You want Asp.Net Routing. Best place to start is here:
http://haacked.com/Tags/Routing/default.aspx
If you are using IIS7 it is easy. IIS6 requires a little more work.
This is generally done using a routing engine in a framework. However if you want to do this for an arbitrary application it's really done using Apache's Mod_Rewrite.
Is there any way to implement a URL mechanisim in asp.net like it has in asp.net mvc
e.g. mydomain.com/user/myusername but without using the MVC
if so, how?
You do this by using the System.Web.Routing assembly
Here's a blogpost showing how :-)
You can use the same routing mechanism that ASP.NET MVC uses inside of an ASP.NET WebForm application. Check this post by Phil Haack on how to learn more about it.
or
If you don't want to use the routing feature and you want to roll your own, check this question out.
If you have access to IIS:
If it is IIS7, the URL Rewriting module might work.
Set IIS up to process ANY request with ASP.NET, and add an entry to Global.ashx
If it is Apache, use mod_rewrite.
Otherwise, you could use:
http://myserver/Web.aspx/url/1
or:
http://myserver/Url.aspx/1
and process Request.Uri.PathInfo
It has to go to a .aspx file somewhere, as otherwise it will not be processed.
I've done this in the past with ASP.NET 2.0 and the UrlRewrite.Net library
The only trick is that if you want it to work with paths that don't have aspx extensions, you have to configure IIS to pass every request through the ASP.NET engine.
I built a classic ASP.NET (I can't believe this term exists) application around 2005 that used rewriting, and this article on MSDN was very helpful at the time: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms972974.aspx.
If you're constrained to 2.0, or even 1.1, this may be the way to go, as System.Web.Routing is 3.5 only.
IIRF does URL Rewrite for IIS5 and 6.
It supports Regex. Free. Open source.