I have an existing web site that has a folder structure to documents to be downloaded. 

I am replacing this site with a new MVC site.  

Custom routing seems to be the way to go to support legacy URLs and re-route to the new URL.

For example, there are a lot of hyperlinks in the wild that have been bookmarked by users, and sent out in emails.  I would like them to continue to work.

My old URL would look like this:

mywebsite.com/Documents/2014/February/nameofthefile.pdf

I want to write a custom route that would ignore the /2014/February part, then grab just the file name.

Would this work?

routes.MapRoute(
                "Documents",                                           // Route name
                "Documents/{Year}/{Month}/{FileName}",                            // URL with parameters
                new { controller = "Reports", action = "GetReportByFileName" }

Hi agent,

Thanks for your post.

agent_smith

I want to write a custom route that would ignore the /2014/February part, then grab just the file name.

If you want to ignore the the /2014/February part,you can add

Year=UrlParameter.Optional,Month=UrlParameter.Optional

More information:

Pease check these:

http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/641783/Customizing-Routes-in-ASP-NET-MVC

http://www.dotnetcurry.com/showarticle.aspx?ID=970

Hope this can be helpful.

Best Regards,

Eileen