How to change access controller priority in MVC ?

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In my project "FilesController" contain "MyFiles" action method with one string argument. And also in the same project there is a folder named "Files" that contain "MyFiles" sub folder. When a user requesting "www.sitename/Files/MyFiles/Pic.jpg" it directly accessing the file from file system instead of hitting the controller action. How to change this request priority form file level to controller level

Controller

C#

public class FilesController : Controller
    {      
        public string MyFiles(string fileName)
        {
            return "abc";            
        }
    }

Note :- We are not using Role authorization

Posted 21-Sep-14 21:25pm

Shemeemsha (ഷെമീംഷ)

Updated 21-Sep-14 21:27pm

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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter · Accepted Answer · 2014-09-21T23:56:00

Solution 1

When you running an MVC site you have somewhere a RouteCollection object that responsible to translate your Controller/Action like URLs to actual calls...By default physical path has a precedence over Controller/Action, but you can change that by setting RouteCollection.RouteExistingFiles[^] to true at the point you initialize your routes...
But! As before physical path hide the Controller/Action now Controller/Action will hide physical path! So if that not what you meant to do it's better to rename one of them...

Posted 21-Sep-14 23:56pm

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter

Updated 22-Sep-14 0:41am

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Shemeemsha (ഷെമീംഷ) 24-Sep-14 5:05am

where to set this to true??
in global.asax??
because the RouteCollection.RouteExistingFiles is not coming in the intellisence. Please elaborate the use..thanks

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter 27-Sep-14 14:46pm

In a Visual Studio created MVC project you have a piece of code in the App_Strat folder (RouteConfig.cs). That code called from the Application_Start even handler (Global.asax)...