How to route a .aspx page in asp.net mvc 3 project?

I have a .aspx page in the following path:

Areas/Management/Views/Ticket/Report.aspx

I want to route that to the following path in my browser:

http://localhost/Reports/Tickets

How can i do that?

I try this:

routes.MapRoute(
    "Tickets", // Route name
    "Areas/Management/Views/Ticket/Report.aspx", // Original URL
    new { controller = "Reports", action = "Tickets" } // New URL 
);

But i got the 404 error.

What i’m doing wrong?

Obs: I put that before the Default route.

Answers:

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Method 1

If you are trying to utilise web forms in a MVC project then I would move your .aspx out of the views folder, as it isn’t really a view, so something like WebForms/Tickets/Report.aspx.

In web forms you map a route by calling the MapPageRoute method.

routes.IgnoreRoute("{resource}.axd/{*pathInfo}");
routes.MapPageRoute("Tickets", "Reports/Tickets", "~/WebForms/Tickets/Report.aspx");
routes.MapRoute("Default", "{controller}/{action}/{id}", new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional });

You’ll need to put that before the default MVC route.

Method 2

Solved! So, we need to add a route contraint to the webforms route to ensure that it only catches on incoming routes, not outgoing route generation.

Add the following class to your project (either in a new file or the bottom of global.asax.cs):

public class MyCustomConstaint : IRouteConstraint{
    public bool Match(HttpContextBase httpContext, Route route, string parameterName, RouteValueDictionary values, RouteDirection routeDirection){
        return routeDirection == RouteDirection.IncomingRequest;
    }
}

Then change the Tickets route to the following:

routes.MapPageRoute(
    "Tickets",
    "Reports/Tickets",
    "~/WebForms/Reports/Tickets.aspx",
    true, null, 
    new RouteValueDictionary { { "outgoing", new MyCustomConstaint() } }
);

Method 3

you are doing it opposite. this maps your url Areas/Management/Views/Ticket/Report.aspx to { controller = "Reports", action = "Tickets" }
what u should do instead is
set the url as
Reports/Tickets
EDIT:- you can create a routeHandler just for routing to this .aspx page.. like this.

public class ASPXRouteHandler : IRouteHandler 
{ 
   public IHttpHandler GetHttpHandler(RequestContext requestContext) 
   { 

     return BuildManager.CreateInstanceFromVirtualPath("~/Areas/Management/Views/Ticket/Report.aspx",  typeof(Page)) as Page; 
   } 
}

then u can add ur route to the existing routes table using

Route customRoute = new Route("Reports/Ticket",null, new ASPXRouteHandler()); 
      routes.Add(customRoute);

Method 4

if you leave the default routing when you create the asp.net project

public class ReportsController : Controller
{
        public ActionResult Ticket()
        {
            return View();
        }        
}

this should do the trick.
The routing in asp.net mvc means that you don’t link directly to .aspx but to Actions (methods) that in turn return an appropriate view (.aspx)

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