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I have 3 routes total in my code.

If I change the position of 1st with 2nd, then 2nd starts to work but 1st gives 404 error.

Am I doing anything wrong in below code?

This is GET route and works perfectly.

routes.MapRoute(

    name: "Default",

    url: "{controller}/{action}",

    defaults: new { 

                    controller = "Category", 

                    action = "Index", 

                    Category = UrlParameter.Optional 

                }

);

This is GET route and always give 404 error.

routes.MapRoute(

    name: "Default1",

    url: "{Category}",

    defaults: new { 

                    controller = "Product", 

                    action = "Index", 

                    Category = UrlParameter.Optional 

                }

);

This is POST route and works perfectly.

routes.MapRoute(

    name: "Default_Without_Action",

    url: "{controller}/{action}/{Category}",

    defaults: new { 

                    controller = "Product", 

                    action = "GetProducts", 

                    Category = UrlParameter.Optional 

                }

);

test if you put url: "{controller}" and see if this works

routes.MapRoute(

    name: "Default1",

    url: "{controller}",

    defaults: new { 

                    controller = "Product", 

                    action = "Index", 

                    Category = UrlParameter.Optional 

                }

);

I checked both routes and working fine.

RouteConfig.cs

public static void RegisterRoutes(RouteCollection routes)

        {

            routes.IgnoreRoute("{resource}.axd/{*pathInfo}");





           //Route -1

           routes.MapRoute(

           name: "Default1",

           url: "{Category}",

           defaults: new { controller = "Product", action = "Index", Category = UrlParameter.Optional }

           );



           //Route - 2

            routes.MapRoute(

                name: "Default",

                //url: "{controller}/{action}/{id}",

                //defaults: new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional }

                url: "{controller}/{action}/{Category}",

                defaults: new { controller = "Category", action = "Index", Category = UrlParameter.Optional }

            );

        }

On initial/first request it matches the route-1 and calls the Index Action Method of Product Controller as shown in the picture below. Reason - We defined the defaults parameter for controller Products.

If we remove the defaults parameter from route 1 then on initial/first request route-2 URL pattern matches and Index Action method of Category Controller will be called, Reason - We defined the defaults parameter for controller Category.

Browser response with 404 error only when any request doesn't match with the registered URL pattern.