Razor Pages Default Page in aspnetcore 2

Question

By default a Razor Page app goes to Home/Index

Is there a way to change this to Home/App?

This is quite easy in MVC, but Razor pages using a different routing

Answer 1

In my case the ambiguity was caused by Pages/Index.cshtml left in project. This worked:

1. options.Conventions.AddPageRoute("/App", "");
2. remove or rename Pages/Index.cshtml

Answer 2

If all you need this for is to debug in Visual Studio, you can just set the start page under Project Properties/Debug/Launch Browser.

Answer 3

Another way is to simply redirect from the Index OnGet method, like so:

    public class IndexModel : PageModel
    {
        public IActionResult OnGet()
        {
            return Redirect("/Welcome");
        }
    }

Notice that I have change the return type of the OnGet method.

Answer 4

I solved the issue by using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Rewrite:

Then adding code to replace the default Index action, in my case with Portfolio:

var options = new RewriteOptions()
    .AddRedirect("^", "portfolio"); // Replace default index page with portfolio

More detailed article about rewrite options - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/fundamentals/url-rewriting?tabs=aspnetcore2x

Answer 5

Pretty sure it isn't possible. The docs say the runtime controls the search for Index as the default. I couldn't find where that happens in the current release, but IndexFileName is a static in the new internal PageRouteModelFactory class added to the upcoming release:

private static readonly string IndexFileName = "Index" + RazorViewEngine.ViewExtension;

It doesn't seem like it would be difficult to just add a config property to RazorPagesOptions, though. The ASP.NET guys are pretty responsive, I'd open a request as a GitHub issue and hope for the best.