Custom my MVC route for specific name

Question

I have this route:

http://example.com/home/solucoes

But I Would to call like http://example.com/any-category/any-thing

My controlller is "Home" and action is "solucoes"

I try use it, but not work

  routes.MapRoute(
            name: "DefaultSolucoes",
            url: "{categoria}/{page}",
            defaults: new { 
                controller = "Home", 
                action = "solucoes", 
                categoria = UrlParameter.Optional,
                page = UrlParameter.Optional }
        );

Answer 1

Most likely you have that route below the default route. The problem there is that both of these routes are basically identical. So, when the default route catches, it simply looks for a controller named "any-category" and an action named "any-thing". Simply having different parameter names doesn't differentiate one route from another.

You can move your route above the default route, as routes are processed top down and the first match wins. However, you've then basically made this route the default route, as it will catch all your standard controller/action style URLs. You might consider adding a prefix to the route, for example:

url: "categoria/{categoria}/{page}",

So then your URLs would be in the form of /categoria/any-category/any-thing and you won't have any conflicts.