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Joe Payne2  
#1 Posted : Wednesday, March 24, 2021 4:56:17 AM(UTC)
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As I migrate a heavily customized Able Gold site to v9, I've hit an interesting wall:

In Gold, I made a complete copy of the /Admin/ area of the site to create a separately-secured section of the site we call the Vendor Portal. A simple change to web.config allows us to restrict this specific area of the site to members of a specific security group. This has worked well for years.

I'm trying to replicate the same thing in V9 with MVC. I started with just creating an area that would render the login page and then send the browser to a default dashboard page. Just like /Admin/ does it. Keeping things simple seemed to be best approach given my current MVC skills.

I've set up a new folder in /Areas/, copied over the bundle configs, area registrations, set up a views/controllers/models folder etc. Then removed the stuff I didn't need and renamed namespaces to eliminate duplicate classes. I even copied the /Views/Shared/ folder and eventually figured out I needed the /Views/_ViewStart.cshtml and /Views/Web.Config files.

All of this works so far, with one exception. I can hit http://website/vendorportal/login and the login page renders. If I authenticate, it then redirects to http://website/vendorportal but throws an error. I get an HTTP 403.14 FORBIDDEN error.

I feel like I've missed a default route somehow, or something hard-coded is going on. Based on my MVC routes below, shouldn't http://website/vendorportal/ be routing to the Index action on the DashboardController? I don't understand why I'm getting 403 FORBIDDEN. Unless somehow there's a permissions change I have missed?

Code:

        public override void RegisterArea(AreaRegistrationContext context) 
        {
            // VENDOR PORTAL LOGIN ROUTE
            context.MapRoute(
                "VendorPortal_login",
                "VendorPortal/Login",
                new { controller = "User", action = "Login", id = UrlParameter.Optional },
                new[] { "AbleCommerce.Areas.VendorPortal.Controllers" }
            );

            // DEFAULT ROUTE
            context.MapRoute(
                "VendorPortal_default",
                "VendorPortal/{controller}/{action}/{id}",
                new { controller = "Dashboard", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional },
                new[] { "AbleCommerce.Areas.VendorPortal.Controllers" }
            );
            
            RegisterBundles();
        }


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Joe Payne2  
#2 Posted : Wednesday, March 24, 2021 5:09:12 AM(UTC)
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AHA! Figured it out. And it was weird.

Not only did I have an area registered as /Areas/VendorPortal/, I also had a folder in the website called /VendorPortal/. It was a leftover from some earlier testing.

By default, MVC routing will not supersede a path that physically exists. Since I had an actual folder /VendorPortal/, routing was ignoring my /Areas/VendorPortal/.

Once I removed the /VendorPortal/ folder from the website, my default route kicks in properly.
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