It sounds like you have two PaginaController classes in your codebase? Also, if this is something you're trying in AppCode, try to use a compiled class instead of the AppCode file.

Yes! that was the problem! i thought i had tried that out. I moved the controllers folder outside the app_code folder and recompiled the project. Now it works.

One more question, now i have

public override ActionResult Index(RenderModel model)

and the url 

/somepage

if i want the action to be:

public override ActionResult Index(RenderModel model, string id)

and the url to be

/somepage/id

it does not work, how could i do it?

Thanks!

That I don't know. :-) I'll ask Shannon if he can have a look.

Custom URLs are different than hijacking a route. Some things to note:

• When a request comes in on a URL, Umbraco needs to map that route to a node, if a url doesn't map to a node than there is no way that Umbraco knows what it is
• Therefore, if something like /somepage/id does not match a node in the Umbraco tree then how would Umbraco know that it is a node?

There's a few ways to handle what you want:

• IContentFinder - this is how Umbraco maps a URL to a content item. http://our.umbraco.org/documentation/Reference/Request-Pipeline/IContentFinder , since you look to be wanting to have your id show up as an Action's parameter, then this is probably not for you but it's worth noting this is the easiest way to relate a url to an Umbraco node.

• Instead of having the url like /somepage/id you could do /somepage?id=blah, then in your controller you'd do:

  [NonAction]
  public override ActionResult Index(RenderModel model)
  {}
  
  
  public ActionResult Index(RenderModel model, string id)
  {
      ...
  }
  

But you probably don't want query strings and would rather have MVC style URLs, so there's only 2 options left:

• Using [EnsurePublishedContentRequest] and custom MVC routes
  • You'd create a normal MVC route to match the URL you want (you can create MVC routes dynamically based on some found content in the tree, like your 'somepage' node), or you can just hard code routes.
  • Then on your action you'd use the [EnsurePublishedContentRequest] attribute to tell Umbraco what IContent item you'd like to associate with the request - this is so that Umbraco knows this current request is actually for an Umbraco node.
  • This is all based off my old blog post here: http://shazwazza.com/post/Custom-MVC-routing-in-Umbraco
• The last option is something new but is only available in 7.1.5 or 6.2.2 which haven't been released yet, BUT you can get this working yourself.
  • Again this is just a custom MVC route but uses a custom MVC route handler.
  • I use this in Articulate ( https://github.com/Shandem/Articulate ) so you could just look at the source for that
  • This is based on a recent blog post: http://shazwazza.com/post/custom-mvc-routes-within-the-umbraco-pipeline/

I'll properly document this all eventually.

Thanks Shannon!!

The first part works great, with /somepage?id=param

url /somepage relates ok to the somepage node in umbraco, note that the id is not a node, "somepage" is the node, so the umbraco url for the node is /somepage. I only want to pass a parameter ?id=param in the mvc form: /somepage/id.

So i was thinking about using url rewriting for the /somepage/?id=param rewrite to /somepage/id, may be it would be an easier solution than using [EnsurePublishedContentRequest].

First i thought about doing it in the web.config rewrite section but didnt know how to implement it, so i have written a maproute:

RouteTable.Routes.MapRoute(

              name: "Route",

             url: "somepage/{id}",

              defaults: new { controller = "Pagina", action = "somepage", id = UrlParameter.Optional }

            );

The action gets executed, but the RenderModel is null. I think umbraco does not relate the url to the node content, but i dont know why as it should be invisible to umbraco as the map route shoud transform somepage/id to somepage?id=

@Tito, yup so you need to use one of the last 2 options i listed above with custom routing.

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