MVC 4 Area Routing is not working

Question

I created an empty MVC4 Application, all things are working fine, after that I add an Area to my Project Named \"Moderator\". My area routing code is like this:

Answer 1

Make sure that in project properties > Web > Start Action > if a specific page | action | url is defined, it does match with mapped routes.

Answer 2

Check the namespace of your controller.

I had moved some code into an area and the namespace was still showing the old location.

ReSharper has a very cool option to fix the namespaces of all files in the folder, project or solution! It is very handy to fix this.

Answer 3

Its better to add

AreaRegistration.RegisterAllAreas();

in global.asax.cs. You must place in following order.

GlobalConfiguration.Configure(WebApiConfig.Register);
RouteConfig.RegisterRoutes(RouteTable.Routes);
AreaRegistration.RegisterAllAreas();
FilterConfig.RegisterGlobalFilters(GlobalFilters.Filters);

Note one things that RegisterAllAreas() should be after Registering the routes. ie. RouteConfig.RegisterRoutes(RouteTable.Routes); should be before AreaRegistration.RegisterAllAreas(); .I have tried and tested and it worked for me.

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Answer 4

Just add the "namespace:" named parameter in RegisterRoutes() method of RouteConfig.cs in App_Start folder. And specify the value of "namespace" to the namespace of your controller, within which you want to call action method. In following example i want to call Index() method in Village Controller from root of project.

public static void RegisterRoutes(RouteCollection routes)
    {
        routes.IgnoreRoute("{resource}.axd/{*pathInfo}");

        routes.MapRoute(
            name: "Default",
            url: "{controller}/{action}/{id}",
            defaults: new { controller = "Village", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional },
            namespaces: new string[] { "MvcApplication1.Controllers" }
        );
    }

Answer 5

I had the same problem. You look to App_Start/RouteConfig.cs and add top this code AreaRegistration.RegisterAllAreas();

public class RouteConfig
{
    public static void RegisterRoutes(RouteCollection routes)
    {
        routes.IgnoreRoute("{resource}.axd/{*pathInfo}");
        AreaRegistration.RegisterAllAreas();

        routes.MapRoute(
            name: "Default",
            url: "{controller}/{action}/{id}",
            defaults: new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional }
        );
    }
}

Create create Areas/Moderator/Controllers/DashboardController.cs

public class DashboardController : Controller
{
    //
    // GET: /Moderator/Dashboard/

    public ActionResult Index()
    {
        return View();
    }
}

and create

Areas/Moderator/Views/Dashboard/Index.cshtml

You also need to have Web.config in Areas/Moderator/Views/Web.config ...

Answer 6

Just try to delete content from following directories as mentioned here and rebuild project

C:\Temp C:\Users\%Username%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\Temporary ASP.NET Files C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\Temporary ASP.NET Files Path\To\Your\Project\obj\Debug