Redirect to Action in another controller

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Sachin Kainth picture Sachin Kainth · May 28, 2012 · Viewed 273.5k times · Source

I have two controllers, both called AccountController. One of them, lets call it Controller A, is in an Area called Admin and the other, lets call it Controller B, is not in any Area (I guess that means it's in the default Area?). Controller B has an action method called Login. I have an action method in Controller A, which has this line

return RedirectToAction("LogIn", "Account");

The problem is that I get a 404 when this line gets executed because an attempt is made to redirect to a non-existent action in Controller A. I want to call the action method in Controller B. Is this possible?

Answer

Rory McCrossan picture Rory McCrossan · May 28, 2012

You can supply the area in the routeValues parameter. Try this:

return RedirectToAction("LogIn", "Account", new { area = "Admin" });

Or

return RedirectToAction("LogIn", "Account", new { area = "" });

depending on which area you're aiming for.

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