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MVC Application Username in route upon login

Upon login I want to re route to a new page. (Example: mysite.com/Dashboard/User/Username)
I also want it to verify that user is logged in before it allows access to said URL.
I'm new to MVC and C# and appreciate your help.
My controller: What do I pass into the controller to make it work?
public class DashboardController : Controller
{
// GET: Dashboard
public ActionResult User()
{
return View();
}
}
Route.config.cs:
public class RouteConfig
{
public static void RegisterRoutes(RouteCollection routes)
{
routes.IgnoreRoute("{resource}.axd/{*pathInfo}");
routes.MapRoute(
name: "Default",
url: "{controller}/{action}/{id}",
defaults: new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional }
);
routes.MapRoute(
name: "UserNameRoute",
url: "{username}",
defaults: new { controller = "Dashboard", action = "User", username = "" }
);
}
}

I believe it should be something like this:
routes.MapRoute(
name: "UserNameRoute",
url: "Dashboard/User/{username}",
defaults: new { username = "" }
);
routes.MapRoute(
name: "Default",
url: "{controller}/{action}/{id}",
defaults: new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional }
);
I chose not to put the {controller} and {action} placeholders in the template as that would make it equal to the default route template. You could of course use just the action template if that is what you need:
routes.MapRoute(
name: "UserNameRoute",
url: "Dashboard/{action}/{username}",
defaults: new { action = "User", username = "" }
);
Also note I put it before the default route because it is more specific. Otherwise the default route would catch every request.
Authorization is something you can't do here however. You will need to do that by e.g. creating a custom AuthorizeAttribute subclass that checks the username matches the logged in user.

How to route from one controller action method to another controller action method without displaying controller name in MVC 5

I have two different MapRoutes in Route.config as follows...
routes.MapRoute(
name: "Default",
url: "{action}",
defaults: new { controller = "Index",action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional }
);
routes.MapRoute(
name: "SubjectRoute",
url: "{action}",
defaults: new { controller = "Subjects", action = "Subjects" }
);
and my #HTML.ActionLink is as follows in Index action method which is in IndexController
#Html.ActionLink("SUBJECTS", "Subjects","Subjects", new { }, new { #class = "text" })
Now when I click on SUBJECTS link in Index action method, it should go to Subjects action in Subjects controller with out displaying controller name in the URL.
How can this be done?

routes.MapRoute(
name: "SubjectRoute",
url: "Subjects",
defaults: new { controller = "Subjects", action = "Subjects" }
);
routes.MapRoute(
name: "Default",
url: "{action}/{id}",
defaults: new { controller = "Index",action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional }
);
With the above, calls to
#Html.ActionLink("SUBJECTS", "Subjects","Subjects", new { }, new { #class = "text" })
should generate
/Subjects
The default and more general route will now catch all other requests and route them to the IndexControllerwhich now acts as the site root/index.
for example assuming
public class IndexController : Controller {
public ActionResult Index() {...}
public ActionResult ContactUs() {...}
public ActionResult About() {...}
}
the available routes based on above controller are
/
/Index
/ContactUs
/About

Why do ASP.NET MVC URLs need Index

Struggling to work out how to have the following
http://localhost/star/regulus
the only way it will work is to have a web address of
http://localhost/star/index/regulus
This is my routes
routes.IgnoreRoute("{resource}.axd/{*pathInfo}");
routes.MapRoute(
name: "Default",
url: "{controller}/{action}/{id}",
defaults: new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional }
);
routes.MapRoute( "", "star/{sstar}", new { Controller = "star", id = UrlParameter.Optional });
and in the Controller, I set up the View as :-
return View("~/views/star.cshtml", oStar);
so you can see I'm not using Index.cshtml
Any ideas how I get the top web address, not the second one.

You need to rearrange your routes
routes.MapRoute(
name: "StarRoute",
url: "star/{sstar}",
defaults: new { controller = "Star", action = "Star", sstar = UrlParameter.Optional}
);
routes.MapRoute(
name: "Default",
url: "{controller}/{action}/{id}",
defaults: new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional }
);
The default controller should usually be the last route registered
Assuming controller
public class StarController :Controller {
public ActionResult Star(string sstar){
//...other code that uses sstar parameter
return View();
}
}
The view should be located at...
~/Views/Star/Star.cshtml
...for the following URIs to work:
http://localhost/star/regulus
http://localhost/star?sstar=regulus
http://localhost/star/sirius
http://localhost/star?sstar=sirius

Routing Issues MVC4

I want to have my URL to be /{page number} for my home page for example localhost:50915/1 for page 1 for a list of records, my URL routing is as follows:
public static void RegisterRoutes(RouteCollection routes)
{
routes.IgnoreRoute("{resource}.axd/{*pathInfo}");
routes.MapRoute(
name: "EditForm",
url: "{controller}/{formid}",
defaults: new { controller = "ManageForm", action = "Update", id = UrlParameter.Optional }
);
routes.MapRoute(
name: "Home",
url: "{page}",
defaults: new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional }
);
routes.MapRoute(
name: "Default",
url: "{controller}/{action}/{id}",
defaults: new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional }
);
}
The second MapRoute method is the one which I added to perform the desirable action. It works perfectly fine, but whenever I try to access another Controller "ManageController" for e.g localhost:50915/ManageForm it returns me the home page (same page showing the list of records).
Here is a snapshot of my solution:
Whenever I tried to remove the lines of codes which perform this URL rerouting for the Home Page pagination, everything works fine, but of course the URL will be as localhost:50915?page=1
My HomeController is as follows:
public class HomeController : Controller
{
//
// GET: /Home/
[HttpGet]
public ViewResult Index(int page = 1)
{
const int pageSize = 4;
FormCollection forms = FormService.GetAllActiveForms(page, pageSize);
var formModel = new FormListViewModel
{
Forms = forms,
PagingInfo = new PageInfo
{
PageNumber = page,
PageSize = pageSize,
TotalItems = forms.Count > 0 ? forms[0].TotalRecord : 0
}
};
return View(formModel);
}
}
Help much appreciated thanks.

You cannot use localhost:50915/ManageForm cause it conflicts with another route definition. MVC does not see the difference between "{controller}/{formid}" and "{page}" when your route parameter is optional.
You have to use your first route as localhost:50915/ManageForm/{formId} to get it working.

Solution would be to map a new routing for the manage form to result in the url /ManageForm/Create
I have changed the RouteConfig.cs as follows:
public static void RegisterRoutes(RouteCollection routes)
{
routes.IgnoreRoute("{resource}.axd/{*pathInfo}");
//<host>/{page}
routes.MapRoute(
name: "Home",
url: "{page}",
defaults: new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional }
);
//ManageForm/Create
routes.MapRoute(
name: "CreateForm",
url: "{controller}/Create",
defaults: new { controller = "ManageForm", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional }
);
//ManageForm/{formid}
routes.MapRoute(
name: "EditForm",
url: "{controller}/{formid}",
defaults: new { controller = "ManageForm", action = "Update", id = UrlParameter.Optional }
);
routes.MapRoute(
name: "Default",
url: "{controller}/{action}/{id}",
defaults: new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional }
);
}

Working with routes.maproute and parameters

I am have a parameter that I want to use as the default ending of a URL, but it is currently a parameter. I want it to always direct to the Home Controller & Index Action, but the "/" becomes the pageName parameter.
For example, I want
http://localhost:18792/?pageName=HomePage
To be accessible by:
http://localhost:18792/HomePage
This is my current routes.maproute:
routes.MapRoute(
name: "Default",
url: "{controller}/{action}/{pageName}",
defaults: new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", pageName = "HomePage" }
);

To do this, you will have to create a route for each page. Don't modify the "Default" route. . Add a new route:
routes.MapRoute(
name: "HomePage",
url: "HomePage",
defaults: new { controller = "Home", action = "HomePage" }
);
for dynamic routes, you could use:
routes.MapRoute(
name: "PageName",
url: "{pageName}",
defaults: new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", pageName = "defaultPage" }
);
which will map to ~/defaultpage or ~/homepage with the Action "Index" in the "Home" controller:
public ActionResult Index(string pageName)
{
ViewBag.Message = pageName;
return View();
}