I believe the error is here. You are setting the Controller as Index

u.EndpointRouteBuilder.MapControllerRoute("testnew", "/TestNew/{action}/{id}", new { Controller = "Index", Action = "Index" });

try this

u.EndpointRouteBuilder.MapControllerRoute("testnew", "/TestNew/{action}/{id}", new { Controller = "TestNew", Action = "Index" });

Hi Damien

I have usually routed controllers through Umbraco as I've usually needed something from Umbraco on the model, and most examples are geared towards doing that - but what you are describing is having like an MVC app work alongside Umbraco - which in V7 was totally possible by just adding the custom route and using Umbraco.Core.ReservedPaths/ReservedUrls appsetting to tell Umbraco to leave well alone.

I suspect in .net core this is a bit different, and I've not done it before so this is all a guess.

It looks like it's still possible to specify ReservedPaths and ReservedUrls -

  "Umbraco": {
    "CMS": {
      "Global": {
        "Id": "",
        "SanitizeTinyMce": true,
        "ReservedPaths": "",
        "ReservedUrls": ""
      },
      "Content": {
        "AllowEditInvariantFromNonDefault": true,
        "ContentVersionCleanupPolicy": {
          "EnableCleanup": true
        }
      }
    }

in appsettings.json

And it 'looks like' it's possible to register an MVC route endpoint outside of Umbraco in startup.cs

app.UseEndpoints(endpoints =>
{
    endpoints.MapControllerRoute(
        name: "supertest",
        pattern: "{controller=SuperTest}/{action=Index}/{id?}");
});

I'd put it below and outside the UseUmbraco stuff

And then that controller can 'just' inherit from Controller - No Umbraco stuff.

public class SuperTestController : Controller
{
    public ActionResult Index()
    {
        string model = "hello";
        return View(model);
    }
}

and a request to /SuperTest/index should just work?

When looking at the source, I did see this new setting called TryMatchingEndpointsForAllPages - which by default is set to false.

https://docs.umbraco.com/umbraco-cms/reference/configuration/webroutingsettings#try-matching-endpoints-for-all-pages

but if you are attempting to map the route to a controller completely outside of Umbraco, what I'd expect from my guess that if it routes correctly this setting won't come in to play.

regards

Marc

Hi Damien

From your screenshot, it looks like you have called

u.EndpointRouteBuilder.MapControllerRoute

Eg calling the extension method on 'u' which is within

app.UseUmbraco().WithEndponts(u=>

...

But my suggestion is to call it 'after' the Umbraco stuff, directly on app.

app.UseEndpoints(endpoints =>
{
    endpoints.MapControllerRoute(
        name: "supertest",
        pattern: "{controller=SuperTest}/{action=Index}/{id?}");
});

It worked for me locally. (I didn't need to add as a reserved path or send the trymatchingendpoints setting)

I was going to update the docs so that it reflected this subtlety - but are you saying you've tried this and it didn't work???

regards

marc

Yeah doing that did not work either, never found a solution that actually worked on that version, haven't tried doing this for any since.

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