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Unwanted redirection on first request

I have a problem in my MVC project were the first time I request a page it makes a redirection to another area, but the second time I request it works correctly.
The url I use is: http://localhost:2012/pt/Documentation/Index and redirects me to http://localhost:2012/es/Services/Documentation
I've debugged the code and in both requests the url asked for is the first, and the action that respond the request is correct, but once the reply gets to the browser , the first time is recieved with a 302 code and it redirects me to this second URL.
I've checked the web.config with any redirection rule but there aren't.
The Area registration is:
routes.MapRoute(
name: "Default",
url: "{language}/{controller}/{action}/{id}",
defaults: new { language = "es", controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional }
);
And the controller is like:
public class DocumentationController : Controller
{
public ActionResult Index(string language)
{
return View();
}
}
The setCulture is an atribute that is used to change the translations needed in the view.
I've tried to comment the view and the layout but it still redirects without code.
Any help will be aprecciated.
****EDIT****
First request:
Second request:
The view code is:
#model string
#{
ViewBag.Title = "Resend documentation";
Layout = null;
}

Why aren't my links taking me into my controller?

I guess I don't completely understand how urls work with C# projects, in the sense that I don't know how to specify a url to go through the controller and not just return a aspx page.
Say I am trying to get to my project's Index page through a Controller named "ScholarshipController.cs". I would think to hit the Index method/action in this controller, my url would be as follows (my app's name is "TuitionAssistance" fyi):
http://localhost/TuitionAssistance/Scholarship/Index
However, running this url just returns the aspx page named "Index.aspx" located in the "Scholarship" view file without hitting the Controller. Why is this happening, and how do I get it to go through the controller so the Index page, when loaded, will have the appropriate information loaded onto it?
Sorry if this is a dumb question. Any insight would be appreciated. Thanks!
Route.config:
using System.Web.Mvc;
using System.Web.Routing;
namespace ScholarshipTuitionAssistance
{
public class RouteConfig
{
public static void RegisterRoutes(RouteCollection routes)
{
routes.IgnoreRoute("{resource}.axd/{*pathInfo}");
/* Scholarship */
/* Scholarship */
//routes.MapRoute("TuitionAssistance",
// "tuition/{name}",
// new { controller = "TuitionAssistance", action = "Index", name = "" });
routes.MapRoute(
name: "TuitionAssistance",
url: "{controller}/{action}/{employee_number}",
defaults: new { controller = "Home", action = "TuitionAssistance", employee_number = UrlParameter.Optional }
);
routes.MapRoute(
name: "Scholarship",
url: "{controller}/{action}/{employee_number}",
defaults: new { controller = "Home", action = "Scholarship", employee_number = UrlParameter.Optional }
);
routes.MapRoute(
name: "Details",
url: "{controller}/{action}/{id}",
defaults: new { controller = "Scholarship", action = "Details", id = UrlParameter.Optional }
);
}
}
}

Your route (URL) cannot match anything that actually exists on the filesystem. In your example here, you apparently have a file, [document root]\Scholarship\Index.aspx. As a result, a request for Scholarship/Index will return that file, instead of invoking the ASP.NET MVC machinery to load a controller action.

In MVC ASP.NET, think of those types of links as a way to call your methods in your controller. When that link is accessed, your controller does a bunch of junk and then returns an ActionResult (or other things). This ActionResult, for the sake of this explanation, is the markup that is written in the corresponding view file. Controller - >index() will return the view called index under views - > controller. If you want to pass information to your view, you will pass a model that has all of your information in it to the view from your index controller (return View(MyFancyModel)). The view will have a razor line at the top such as: #model The.Namespace.Wherever.my.model.is
The scaffolded controllers and views in Visual Studio for the index page specifically, only pass a list of the items in the corresponding database.

ASP.NET MVC Angular routing

I'm lost..
For days now, i have tried to get it to work.. I made a MVC site code first with EF. then i've scaffolded controllers and API (tried ALOT thins)
my routeConfig:
routes.MapRoute(
name: "Default",
url: "{controller}/{action}/{id}",
defaults: new { controller = "Events", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional }
);
my WbApiConfig:
config.MapHttpAttributeRoutes();
config.Routes.MapHttpRoute(
name: "DefaultApi",
routeTemplate: "api/{controller}/{id}",
defaults: new { id = RouteParameter.Optional }
);
What should my Controllers actions return? json? views?
my ng-app is in my /Home/Index (which uses layout, and layout has ng app on html)
and at last, my ngApp
app.config(['$routeProvider', function ($routeProvider, $locationProvider) {
$routeProvider
// route for the home page
.when('/', {
templateUrl: 'Home/Index',
controller: 'mainController'
})
.when('/Home/About', {
templateUrl: '/Home/About',
controller: 'programsCtrl'
});
}]);
So.. the furthest I've got is a 404 or angular crashing chrome by loading infinitly.
And with the code above, i get the angular load more than one crash.
I just want my angular to load my views inside the ng-view and leave the layout on always..
ANY help or pointer appreciated :)

I recommend you to use UI router, You create a one controller name 'HomeController' inherited from _layout. Your index view of Home contains this div
<div ui-view></div>
You app.js file looks like, don't forget to add ui-router js in layout
var app = angular.module('app', ['ngRoute', 'ui.router']);
app.config(['$stateProvider', '$urlRouterProvider', function ($stateProvider, $urlRouterProvider) {
// For any unmatched url, redirect to /state1
$urlRouterProvider.otherwise("/Home");
// Now set up the states
$stateProvider
.state('Home', {
url: "/Home",
controller: "mainController",
templateUrl: "your html pages" // like '/script/home/templates/home.html'
}).state('About', {
url: "/Home/About",
controller: "programsCtrl",
templateUrl: "your html pages" // like '/script/home/templates/about.html'
});
}]);

The way I go about this is by setting the default for MVC to home/index and placing the <ng-view></ng-view> in the home/index view. This should be the only content in that view, remove everything else.
Now, on your _layout, make sure you have:
<html ng-app="app"> at the top of the file and ensure that you have the relevant scripts loaded ie:
#Scripts.Render("~/bundles/angularjs")
#Scripts.Render("~/bundles/app")
So that angular is available.
Keep this for #RenderBody()
<div class="body-content">
#RenderBody()
</div>
Your MVC methods return ActionResult (return View()) and your ApiController methods return JSON

New MVC 4 Project. Default routes are getting ignored

I just created a new MVC 4 project, and added an EDO.NET Entity Data Model using Database First. I'm not sure exactly why, but things don't seem to be functioning correctly as they used to. I had to manually add the EF Code Generation item to generate the entity classes.
Anyway, the main problem I have is that the default routing seems to be ignored.
My route config is the default, which is as follows:
public class RouteConfig
{
public static void RegisterRoutes(RouteCollection routes)
{
routes.IgnoreRoute("{resource}.axd/{*pathInfo}");
routes.MapRoute(
name: "Default",
url: "{controller}/{action}/{id}",
defaults: new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional }
);
}
}
However [LOCALHOST]/Properties/ doesn't find /Properties/Index, it merely returns a 404 Server Error in '/' Application.
The resource cannot be found.
I wouldn't put it past me to have made some silly mistake or forgotten something crucial, but I've searched StackOverflow and the interwebs for similar problems and none of the solutions are of any help. If anyone knows why, I'd be grateful for a prod in the right direction.
Requested Edits:
I have 3 Controllers:
Home - Untouched
Account - Untouched
Properties - w/ Default MVC CRUD Actions (Index, Details, Create, Edit)
It works fine when hosted on IIS but not on VS's internal debugging IIS.
#Html.ActionLink("Properties", "Index", "Properties") generates http://[localhost]:53909/Properties when run. However clicking the generated link gives me a "Server Error in '/' Application.
The resource cannot be found."
PropertiesController.cs (only Index action)
public class PropertiesController : Controller
{
private PropertyInfoEntities db = new PropertyInfoEntities();
//
// GET: /Properties/
public ActionResult Index()
{
//Mapper.CreateMap<Property, PropertiesListViewModel>()
//.ForMember(vm => vm.MainImageURL, m => m.MapFrom(u => (u.MainImageURL != null) ? u.MainImageURL : "User" + u.ID.ToString()))
// ;
//List<PropertiesListViewModel> properties =
// Mapper.Map<List<Property>, List<PropertiesListViewModel>>(db.Properties.ToList());
return View(db.Properties.Include(p => p.Currency).Include(p => p.Type).Include(p => p.Province).Include(p => p.Region).Include(p => p.SaleType).Include(p => p.Source).Include(p => p.Town).ToList());
}
}
_Layout.cshtml
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8" />
<title>#ViewBag.Title - My ASP.NET MVC Application</title>
<link href="~/favicon.ico" rel="shortcut icon" type="image/x-icon" />
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width" />
#Styles.Render("~/Content/css")
#Scripts.Render("~/bundles/modernizr")
</head>
<body>
<header>
<div class="content-wrapper">
<div class="float-left">
<p class="site-title">#Html.ActionLink("your logo here", "Index", "Home")</p>
</div>
<div class="float-right">
<section id="login">
#Html.Partial("_LoginPartial")
</section>
<nav>
<ul id="menu">
<li>#Html.ActionLink("Home", "Index", "Home")</li>
<li>#Html.ActionLink("About", "About", "Home")</li>
<li>#Html.ActionLink("Properties", "Index", "Properties")</li>
<li>#Html.ActionLink("Contact", "Contact", "Home")</li>
</ul>
</nav>
</div>
</div>
</header>
....
Edit 2:
Even with a specific route it is still ignored
namespace ProjectName
{
public class RouteConfig
{
public static void RegisterRoutes(RouteCollection routes)
{
routes.IgnoreRoute("{resource}.axd/{*pathInfo}");
routes.MapRoute(
"Properties",
"Properties/{action}/{id}",
new { controller = "Properties", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional }
);
routes.MapRoute(
name: "Default",
url: "{controller}/{action}/{id}",
defaults: new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional }
);
}
}
}
Cheers!

I tried changing the name of PropertiesController to Properties1Controller, and the routing worked for it completely fine. After some further digging I discovered that it's because Properties is a Windows Reserved Keyword.
Anyhow, the solution to the problem: Do not use reserved keywords as controller names.
Strangely routing for /Properties/Index works completely fine, and routing for /Properties/ works completely fine on production IIS, just not for development. This made it much harder to work out the problem but managed to get there in the end.
Thank-you all for your assistance.

In your Global.asax.cs file, have you registered the routes? For example:
RouteConfig.RegisterRoutes(RouteTable.Routes);

Visiting localhost/properties is explicitly saying that you want to invoke PropertiesController. If you mean you want that to be your default route, then you need to change your route config to the following:
routes.MapRoute(
name: "Default",
url: "{controller}/{action}/{id}",
defaults: new { controller = "Properties", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional }
);
That would allow you to invoke it directly from localhost. However, it sounds as though you are missing the .cshtml file. Have you made sure ~/Views/Properties/Index.cshtml exists?

Default route means that every [localhost]/foo/bar request is forwarded to FooController and its Bar action that must return some existing View. Probably you don't have some of them.
"defaults" parameter sets default controller and action names in case they are not specified in request (i.e. http://[localhost]/) so in your case this will search for HomeController and its Index action.

Does the namespace of the Properties controller match the "ProjectNamespace.Controllers" convention? If you copied the code from another source you may have forgotten to change the namespace of the controller class.

Asp.Net Routing - Display complete URL

I have a domain "http://www.abc.com". I have deployed an ASP.net MVC4 app on this domain. I have also configured a default route in RouteConfig.cs as shown below
routes.MapRoute(
name: "Default",
url: "{controller}/{action}/{id}",
defaults: new { controller = "MyApp", action = "Home", id = UrlParameter.Optional }
);
The above mapping ensures that anyone attempting to visit "http://www.abc.com" is automatically shown the page for "http://www.abc.com/MyApp/Home"
Everything works as expected but the address bar in the browser shows "http://www.abc.com" instead of "http://www.abc.com/MyApp/Home". Is there any way to force the browser to show the complete URL including the controller and Action?

One option would be to set your default route to a new controller, maybe called BaseController with an action Root:
public class BaseController : Controller
{
public ActionResult Root()
{
return RedirectToAction("Home","MyApp");
}
}
and modify your RouteConfig to point to that for root requests:
routes.MapRoute(
name: "Default",
url: "{controller}/{action}/{id}",
defaults: new { controller = "Base", action = "Root", id = UrlParameter.Optional }
);

You'll need to do some kind of url rewriting. Probably the quickest way is to add a RewritePath call to your BeginRequest in Global.asax. In your case it'd be something like this:
void Application_BeginRequest(Object sender, EventArgs e)
{
string originalPath = HttpContext.Current.Request.Path.ToLower();
if (originalPath == "/") //Or whatever is equal to the blank path
Context.RewritePath("/MyApp/Home");
}
An improvement would be to dynamically pull the url from the route table for the replacement. Or you could use Microsoft URL Rewrite, but that's more complicated IMO.

Just remove the default parameters, it's been answered here:
How to force MVC to route to Home/Index instead of root?