ASP.NET MVC 2 Areas 404

Question

Hey,

Has anyone been able to get the Areas in ASP.NET MVC 2 to work?

I created a new Area called "Secure" and placed a new controller in it named HomeController. I then Created a new Home/Index.aspx view. However, when I browse to http://localhost/myapp/Secure/ it gives a 404 resource cannot be found. http://localhost/myapp/Secure/Home gives the same error.

My area registration looks like this:

public override void RegisterArea(AreaRegistrationContext context)
        {
            context.MapRoute(
                "Secure_default",
                "Secure/{controller}/{action}/{id}",
                new { action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional }
            );
        }

I also tried this:

public override void RegisterArea(AreaRegistrationContext context)
        {
            context.MapRoute(
                "Secure_default",
                "Secure/{controller}/{action}/{id}",
                new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional }
            );
        }

Thanks, Justin

Answer 1

Are you calling AreaRegistration.RegisterAllAreas() in your global.asax?

Sub Application_Start()
    AreaRegistration.RegisterAllAreas()

    RegisterRoutes(RouteTable.Routes)
End Sub

Answer 2

Sure, i've got Areas working with ASP.NET MVC 2.

Its hard for people to debug routes over SO, the easiest way is for you to use Phil Haacks Route Debugger. It'll tell you what routes (and areas) are being resolved for a particular URL. Extremely handy.

However ill take a stab, try changing your route to this:

       context.MapRoute(
            "Secure_default",
            "Secure",
            new { action = "Index", controller = "Home", id = UrlParameter.Optional }
        );

The url (<yourhost>/Secure) will find your area Secure but not know which controller you hand the request to, as you have not specified a default value for controller in your areas route.

Here's my setup:

Areas
      Albums
           Controllers
                AlbumsController.cs (namespace Web.Areas.Albums.Controllers)
           Models
           Views
                Albums
                     Index.aspxx
           AlbumsAreaRegistration.cs
                context.MapRoute(
                    "Albums_Default",
                    "Albums",
                    new { controller = "Albums", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional)

The URL: http://localhost/Albums triggers the "Index" action of my "AlbumsController" in my "Albums" area.

What does you structure look like?

Answer 3

Have you tried using http://localhost/myapp/Secure/Home/index ? I find so many times that when I use index as the view name and don't specify it in the path it never works. It should work but it never works for me.

I don't like calling my views index anyways so not a big deal for me.

Answer 4

I got it working, the answer was to change the area registration class to this:

context.MapRoute(
                "Secure_Default", // Route name
                "Secure/{controller}/{action}/{id}", // URL with parameters
                new { area="Secure", controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional }, // Parameter defaults
                new[] { typeof(Controllers.HomeController).Namespace }
            );

I have no idea why it worked for another developer and not for me, also I feel like it should "just work" out of the box when you create a new Area, you shouldn't have to fiddle with the route mapping.

Anyway, thanks all for the help and I'm giving the answer to RPM for all his hard work.