ASP.NET Routing a URL that does not contain a controller name

Question

I would like to direct the following URL:

http://myweburl/Wheel/466/Direction/903/Highlight/7

To a controller action:

public ActionResult Index(int wheel, int direction, int highlight)

On the controller VehicleController I still want to keep my Home/Index as the root url of the site. So if someone entered

http://myweburl/

They would be directed to Home/Index How do I do this?

I've a suggestion for you. The parameters wheel, direction and highlight are different from each other. direction is not a category of wheel and highlight is not a category of direction. You could separate those items by '/' if those items have a relationship like category/item. I would suggest you to pass those values as querystrings instead of route parameters and by that way you are more RESTful. — VJAI, Commented Nov 12, 2012 at 9:24
@Mark thanks for the suggestion but this is just a contrived example, in my production code the parameters are related. (should of thought a bit more before posting) — Aran Mulholland, Commented Nov 12, 2012 at 22:33

Aran Mulholland · Accepted Answer · 2012-11-12 03:03:57Z

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Just add the follwing as a route above the default route (Home/Index)

routes.MapRoute(
    name: "WheelRoute",
    url: "Wheel/{wheel}/Direction/{direction}/Highlight/{highlight}",
    defaults: new { controller = "VehicleController", action = "Index" }
 );

answered Nov 12, 2012 at 3:03

Aran Mulholland

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