What is the best way to let access to physical files in ASP.NET MVC3

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I did not find which is the best following to serve physical files to the users in a MVC3 app. For example if I want to put my site in search engines, they ask me to place an xml file in the site root. This file can not be accessed because I think the routing does not "catch" the url...

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bobek · Accepted Answer · 2012-03-21 19:07:44Z

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You should be able to ignore route:

routes.IgnoreRoute("/filename.xml");

Or:

routes.IgnoreRoute("filename.xml");

And that should be done in Global.asax file and RegisterRoutes() function

answered Mar 21, 2012 at 19:07

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Ahmad_Hamdan · Accepted Answer · 2012-03-21 19:12:48Z

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did you try opening the file through your web browser? if you tried and it didn't open then you can do the following in global.asax write the following C# routes.IgnoreRoute("{xml}", new { xml = @"(.)?abc.xml" }); where abc is the file name or you can but * instead of abc to ignore all xml files

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Travis J · Accepted Answer · 2012-03-21 19:07:05Z

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You can just set the permissions on the file system with a chmod (700) or equivalent. Usually this is where the protections come in.

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