Redirect to Action in another controller

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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?

possible duplicate of MVC Redirect to Index from another Controller — musefan
– musefan, Commented Jun 26, 2013 at 11:24

Rory McCrossan · Accepted Answer · 2012-05-28 13:13:34Z

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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.

answered May 28, 2012 at 13:13

Rory McCrossan

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Awais Mahmood Over a year ago

what if I want to go from a view in a certain area to action of a controller which is not in any area. Like in MVC5, the LogOff button on top right is in AccountController, which donot reside in any area. And I want to LogOff from a view in a certain area???

Rory McCrossan Over a year ago

My second example, area = "", will do that for you.

Jonathan Alfaro Over a year ago

This worked for me with ASP.NET Core.... When I upgraded to the latest version the RedirectToAction broke and I got it to work using the area = "" with an empty string.

gdoron · Accepted Answer · 2012-05-28 13:15:03Z

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Use this:

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

This will redirect to the LogIn action in the Account controller in the "global" area.

It's using this RedirectToAction overload:

protected internal RedirectToRouteResult RedirectToAction(
    string actionName,
    string controllerName,
    Object routeValues
)

MSDN

answered May 28, 2012 at 13:15

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Muhammad Awais · Accepted Answer · 2018-04-01 15:21:16Z

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You can use this:

return RedirectToAction("actionName", "controllerName", new { area = "Admin" });

answered Apr 1, 2018 at 15:21

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Hiren Patel · Accepted Answer · 2019-03-22 08:14:55Z

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Use this:

    return this.RedirectToAction<AccountController>(m => m.LogIn());

answered Mar 22, 2019 at 8:14

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M.G. Over a year ago

I like the concept. I have always hated the string part of RedirectToAction and thought it should be more like what you entered, but this appears to anger c#. Is this in frameworks newer then 4.6.2?

Hiren Patel Over a year ago

@user3071434 No, you can use with adding "using Microsoft.Web.Mvc". you can avoid string part and reduce to getting an error on runtime due to the wrong Action text

noontz Over a year ago

This seems to be sadly missing in .NET 6.0 or am I missing something?

Kazeem Quadri · Accepted Answer · 2021-01-25 15:34:00Z

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This should work

return RedirectToAction("actionName", "controllerName", null);

answered Jan 25, 2021 at 15:34

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MLavoie · Accepted Answer · 2020-07-06 11:09:12Z

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Try switching them:

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

I tried it and it worked.

edited Jul 6, 2020 at 11:09

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Linju · Accepted Answer · 2021-07-07 17:17:37Z

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RedirectToRoute() is also available. Also, a better way to do it might be using nameof() so you can avoid hardcoding strings in your codebase.

return RedirectToRoute(nameof(AccountController) + nameof(AccountController.Login));

And, if you are redirecting to an endpoint that takes parameters, pass those along.

return RedirectToRoute(nameof(Account) + nameof(Account.ChangePassword), new { id = id });

edited Jul 7, 2021 at 17:17

answered Jul 7, 2021 at 16:20

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N_E Over a year ago

I notice a caveat using this approach is that you would creating a new request that will pipe down through Routing engine and then reach the controller. If you are making several indirections, response may come out slower compared to RedirectToAction

Hrithik a · Accepted Answer · 2023-07-15 13:26:10Z

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protected internal RedirectToRouteResult RedirectToAction( string actionName, string controllerName, Object routeValues )

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