Ignore Route In MVC

Rakesh Kalluri

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Austin Hummel7y ago
This will only work to block the Employee/Index page if visiting the page as localhost/Employee. Visiting the page as localhost/Employee/Index or visiting any other Employee view will still be allowed. To block all URLs controlled by the EmployeeController, you can use routes.IgnoreRoute("Employee/{*pathInfo}");
Ankit Sharma9y ago
Very good article on routes.IgnoreRoute...
Joginder Banger9y ago
Hi good article but i have one question for you, can we ignore route based on table data?
Pradeep Yadav9y ago
Nice article on IgnoreRoute method !!!
Ramakrishna Gadde9y ago
Nice article on IgnoreRoute method !!!
Akhilesh Pandit10y ago
Very good explain
Santhakumar Munuswamy10y ago
Thanks for nice article.
Shridhar Sharma10y ago
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Karthikeyan K10y ago
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Humayun Kabir Mamun10y ago
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Debasis Saha10y ago
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Manoj Kulkarni10y ago
Nice article. Thank you for sharing

Ignore Route in MVC

While working on one of my recent projects, we had several controllers and in one of the controllers we found a big issue. We needed to solve the issue in a production environment; until then, we needed to ignore the request and response process until the issue was fixed.

Scenario:

We have two controllers in our project, Student and Employee, and we have some issue with the Employee controller. Until the issue is solved, we need to stop the user accessing the Employee controller using the RegisterRoutes method in Routeconfg.cs,

By adding

routes.IgnoreRoute("Employee/");

Create an MVC Project

Select Empty Template and Add MVC folder reference,

Add New Controller in Controller folder,

Add Student Controller,

Student

Student Controller

Controller Code

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.Mvc;
namespace IngoreRoute.Controllers
{
public class StudentController: Controller
{
// GET: Student
public ActionResult Index()
{
return View();
}
}
}

Add View For Index Action

view

Index View Code

@ {
ViewBag.Title = "Index";
}
< h2 > Student Controller - Index Action Method Get Invoked < /h2>

Employee Controller

Followthe above process for how we added the Student Controller, just as we did the Employee Controller.

Run the Application

Before running the Application we need to set a startup controller as Student Controller and Index action in the Routeconfg.cs file.

routes.MapRoute
(
name: "Default",
url: "{controller}/{action}/{id}",
defaults: new
{
controller = "Student", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional
}
);

Run the Application

app

Change the Url to Employee Controller.

emp

In above image, the Employee controller is invoked successfully, but our scenario does not want to access Employee controller. In this situation we need to change the routeconfig.cs file.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.Mvc;
using System.Web.Routing;
namespace IngoreRoute
{
public class RouteConfig
{
public static void RegisterRoutes(RouteCollection routes)
{
routes.IgnoreRoute("{resource}.axd/{*pathInfo}");
routes.IgnoreRoute("Employee/");
routes.MapRoute(
name: "Default",
url: "{controller}/{action}/{id}",
defaults: new
{
controller = "Student", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional
}
);
}
}
}

Add routes.IgnoreRoute("Employee/");

Run the Application and try to navigate to Employee Controller. Here's the output,

Result

When we try to use Employee Controller, we get 404 error.

Thanks for reading the article.