I would like to create a member area on my site with the following URL patterns:

Pattern for logged out user:

domain.com
domain.com/About
domain.com/Blog
domain.com/Blog/1 (where 1 is the post ID)

But I also have a member area where I prefix the Url with Member like this:

domain.com/Member/MyProfile
domain.com/Member/MySettings

This seems simple, but I can't see an obvious way to make routing rules for this. I have:

        routes.MapRoute(
         "Member", // Route name
         "Member/{controller}/{action}/{id}", // URL with parameters
         new { controller = "Task", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional } // Parameter defaults
        );

            routes.MapRoute(
            "Default", // Route name
            "{controller}/{action}/{id}", // URL with parameters
            new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional } // Parameter defaults
        );

This works great for the member when you are logged in, but unfortunately the first rule also matches the logged out view and Url.Action("Blog", "Home") produces a Url that looks like this:

domain.com/Member/Home/Blog

How do I tell Url.Action that it must form Urls with the default rule outside the member area?

• asp.net-mvc-3
• url-routing

You could use a real MVC area instead of trying to simulate one. There's also a video you might checkout. The idea is that you leave your default route definition in Global.asax and then add a Member area to your site which will have a separate route configuration.