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    <p>trying to map the following style of route: <a href="http://site.com/username" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://site.com/username</a> in the same way that you can do <a href="http://www.twitter.com/user" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.twitter.com/user</a></p> <p>My initial solution was to have these routes:</p> <pre><code>//site.com/rathboma - maps to user details for rathboma routes.MapRoute("Users", "{id}", new { controller = "Users", action = "Details" }); routes.MapRoute( "Default", // Route name "{controller}/{action}/{id}", // URL with parameters new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = "oneday" } // Parameter defaults ); </code></pre> <p>And that was working fine, until I tried to do the following in my 'Links' controller:</p> <pre><code>public ActionResult Details(string id) { int newId; if (!int.TryParse(id, out newId)) return RedirectToAction("Index"); WebLink results = Service.GetWebLink(newId, 5); if (results == null) return RedirectToAction("Index"); return View(results); } </code></pre> <p>These RedirectToAction methods try and return the browser to <a href="http://site.com/Users" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://site.com/Users</a> (I do have a users controller) instead of directing to <a href="http://site.com/Links/index" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://site.com/Links/index</a></p> <p><strong>Why is this is happening?</strong></p> <p><strong>How should I be organizing my routes to make this work properly?</strong></p> <p>I'm happy sacrificing <a href="http://site.com/links" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://site.com/links</a> and moving to <a href="http://site.com/links/index" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://site.com/links/index</a> if I have to. But how would I enforce that?</p> <p>Thanks to all for any help</p> <p><strong>EDIT:</strong></p> <p>I know what's causing this, it's trying to redirect to <a href="http://site.com/links" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://site.com/links</a> (the index page), but links is being picked up as a username and redirecting to /users/details, when it can't find the user 'links' it tries to redirect to the UsersController Index action which maps to /users, and the cycle continues ('users' is not a user it can find so redirects infinately).</p> <p><strong>So I guess My sub-question is: how to I make mvc always use /links/index instead of just using /links for the index page?</strong></p>
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