[Kiwihost]

How to deploy ASP.NET 3.5SP1 MVC Apps using ISAPI_Rewrite

For the .htaccess File

RewriteEngine on

RewriteRule (.*)\.(css|gif|png|jpeg|jpg|js|zip) $1.$2 [I,L]
RewriteRule ^Home(/)?$ $9 [NC,R=301]
RewriteRule ^$ Home [NC]
RewriteRule ^([\w]+)$ $1.aspx [NC]
RewriteRule ^(?!Content)([\w]*)/(.*) $1.aspx/$2 [NC]

For your global.asax.cs File

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

routes.MapRoute("default",
"{controller}/{action}/{id}",
new { controller = "home", action = "index", id = "" },
new { controller = @"[^\.]*" } );

routes.MapRoute("default.aspx",
"{controller}.aspx/{action}/{id}",
new { controller = "home", action = "index", id = "" },
new { controller = @"[^\.]*" } );

// For non wildcard default requests (.aspx)
routes.MapRoute("root", "", new { controller = "home", action =
"index", id = "" } );
}

Some additional information can be found here http://blog.codevill...t-mvc-to-iis-6/ specifically Option 4 is what you need to use.

[snaayk]

I thought I'd share that this works with MVC 2, if you bin deploy it (until it's installed on the servers).

[snaayk]

I noticed that in the example you posted here, every controller will require a matching entry with the extension. This comes from the original post (inside the link above). However, the link above, does a rewrite in the htaccess with "rewrite.aspx" and then removes it during begin_request. This second version seems much simpler since there is no need for superflous entries in the route table. Additionally, you do not require the third parameter for each route entry.

Updated Rule:

RewriteRule ^(?!Content)(.*) /rewritten.aspx/$1 [NC]

Instead of

RewriteRule ^([\w]+)$ $1.aspx [NC]
RewriteRule ^(?!Content)([\w]*)/(.*) $1.aspx/$2 [NC]

Of course, you have to add the following code to Application_BeginRequest

protected void Application_BeginRequest(Object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            HttpApplication app = sender as HttpApplication;
            if (app != null)
                if (app.Request.AppRelativeCurrentExecutionFilePath == "~/rewritten.aspx")
                    app.Context.RewritePath(
                        app.Request.Url.PathAndQuery.Replace("/rewritten.aspx", "")
                    );
        }

And then the RegisterRoutes looks like:

routes.IgnoreRoute("{resource}.axd/{*pathInfo}");

routes.MapRoute("Default", 
                "{controller}/{action}/{id}", 
                new { controller = "home", action = "index", id = "" });

routes.MapRoute("root", 
                "", 
                new { controller = "home", action ="index", id = "" } );

Is there a reason why you chose to use the initial example?

[Kiwihost]

The initial example was provided by another customer. Thanks for your feedback though, this gives customers another option.

Cheers.

[Kiwihost]

Also thanks for the heads up about the MVC 2 update, I'll schedule this to be installed on our next Server Patch/Reboot day which will be early next month.

[snaayk]

If you install the .NET 4 update (comes out April 12th, I beleive) it will include the MVC2 update. That'll be nice, sooo nice.

[Kiwihost]

I'll put it on the to-do list

ED: .NET4 was installed last month as part of the patch cycle

[snaayk]

With ASP.NET 4 and MVC 2 (haven't tried with 2.0/3.5 or MVC 1) no rewrite rules are needed. It works as expected.