Creating Custom URLs in Asp.Net

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I'm in the process of writing a blogging software, as a learning excercise. Everything is going well, except I'm not sure how to create user-fieldly, SEO friendly URLs.

For instance:

http://myblogsite.com/blogs/default.aspx?ID=12

should be something more user friendly:

http://myblogsite.com/blogs/how-to-create-custom-urls-in-asp-net

I did look around, but couldn't find anything helpful. I want to create a permanent url and people can share and link to on otehr websites. On existing blog applications, it is referred to as "slug", I believe. But, I'm not sure how it works in Asp.Net.

Many Thanks!

Yuriy Faktorovich · Accepted Answer · 2012-07-21 17:36:31Z

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Use URL routing in ASP.Net 4. For .Net 3.5 and lower the solutions are limited and more complicated, especially with IIS 6 because of how it handles extensionless requests.

routes.MapPageRoute("",
        "blogs/{blogName}",
        "~/blogs/default.aspx");

But you'd have to change ID to name and make it distinct. Also be careful of / slipping into it.

answered Jul 21, 2012 at 17:36

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Toby · Accepted Answer · 2012-07-21 17:40:46Z

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Check out the IIS7 URLRewrite module.

answered Jul 21, 2012 at 17:40

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