Redirect in Razor pages with custom PageRouteModel

Question

User749918359 posted

Hello,

I made a custom convention for my razor pages so that the url of every pages looks like : https://localhost/somekey/Index instead of https://localhost/Index

Because of that, I can't make links work in the razor pages

    public class CustomPageRouteModelConvention : IPageRouteModelConvention
    {
        public void Apply(PageRouteModel model)
        {
            foreach (var selector in model.Selectors.ToList())
            {
                var template = selector.AttributeRouteModel.Template;
                // insert the buyer before the default route
                selector.AttributeRouteModel.Template = "{SomeKey}/" + template;
            }
        }
    }

The "{SomeKey}" can be a random string but it's not an existing folder.
Here, Privacy.cshtml is located in Pages/Privacy

                            <a class="nav-link text-dark" asp-area="" asp-page="/Privacy/">Privacy</a>

This link won't work because of the {SomeKey} parameter but I can't figure how to make it work.

Answer 1

User-17257777 posted

Hi Etrigger,

The "{SomeKey}" can be a random string but it's not an existing folder.

A little confused, what's the value of SomeKey, I think you need to assign a value to it.

Best Regards,

Jiadong Meng

Answer 2

User749918359 posted

Hi jiadongm,

Thanks for you answer.

Somekey will always have a value.
Here are some url exemples :
- localhost/somekey-a/Client/Home
- localhost/a_random_string/Client/Home
- localhost/another_random_string/Client/Home
Those url will all access the same page located in Pages/Client/Home.cshtml

I made some tests and
-<a href="/somekey-a/Client/Home"></a> work
-<a asp-page="/somekey-a/Client/Home"></a> doesn't work
-<a asp-page="/Client/Home"></a> doesn't work
-<a asp-route="/Client/Home"></a> doesn't work
-<a asp-page="./Client/Home"></a> doesn't work

The problem seems to come from the tag helper.

I do this so that I can get the value of {somekey} with routedata but {somekey} must be inserted between the root of the url and the virtual path of the pages.