How to define the base url for the asp.net core app

Question

I have one ASP.NET Core 3.1.0 web app and I am struggling to understand the url exposed by asp.net core.

I have one single controller

[Route("accounts")]
public class AccountsController : BaseController
{
    public AccountsController()
    {
    }

    [HttpGet("{test}")]
    public string DefaultMethod()
    {
        return "Hello";
    }
}

In my Startup.cs, I am using UsePathBase as

app.UsePathBase("/account-api");

When I start the app, I can access the method as

http://localhost:5000/account-api/accounts/test and it is fine

But I can also access it via http://localhost:5000/accounts/test which I want to restrict.

How can I restrict this?

You may want to decorate your controller with [Route("account-api/[controller]")] to restrict — Sai Gummaluri
– Sai Gummaluri, Commented Aug 5, 2020 at 16:26

AliReza Sabouri · Accepted Answer · 2020-08-05 16:29:07Z

1

try this

         app.UseMvc(routes =>
         {
            routes.MapRoute(
               name: "default",
               template: "account-api/{controller}/{action}/{id?}");
         });

answered Aug 5, 2020 at 16:29

AliReza Sabouri

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3 Comments

Bhavik Suthar Over a year ago

I am using Web API template and without MVC so don't think this should be used in my case

AliReza Sabouri Over a year ago

why not? it's completely fine to use MVC model in WebAPIs. but you have app.UseRouter option too. instead of useMvc. @BhavikSuthar

Bhavik Suthar Over a year ago

I have marked this as answered but went with app.UseRouter as UseMVC gave the wrong impression on the codebase

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