MVC4 how to set default url? - asp.net-mvc-4

Question

I'm working on building a MVC4 web app and want to set specific URL I would like to use in the start point of my web application.
So I changed some values in RouteConfig.cs like this below.
routes.MapRoute(
name: "Default",
url: "{action}.mon/{id}",
defaults: new { controller = "login", action = "index", id = UrlParameter.Optional }
);
you may notify this, but I put a suffix after action name, so that I could invoke a controller, displaying the URL like " index.mon "
if I manually put "index.mon" after host address in URL bar, then it works just okay.
But when the app gets started automatically, it throws 403.14 error. ( "automatically start" means here that I ran this app by putting F5 key to run a temporary IIS server. )
the login controller looks like this
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Data;
using System.Data.Entity;
using System.Data.OleDb;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.Mvc;
namespace Monarch815MVC.Controllers
{
public class loginController : Controller
{
//
// GET: /login/
public ActionResult index()
{
return View();
}
public ActionResult loginProcess(string id = "000000", string pass = "example", string scode = "co")
{
Dictionary<string, object> sessionData = null;
String SqlCommand = "USP_LOGIN";
DataSet UserInfo = dataController.ExecuteDataset(dataController.CONN_STRING, CommandType.StoredProcedure, SqlCommand, arParms);
if (UserInfo.Tables[0].Rows.Count > 0)
{
sessionData = new Dictionary<string, object>();
for (int i = 0; UserInfo.Tables[0].Rows[0].Table.Columns.Count > i; i++)
{
sessionData.Add(UserInfo.Tables[0].Rows[0].Table.Columns[i].Caption, UserInfo.Tables[0].Rows[0].ItemArray[i]);
}
}
return View();
}
}
}
( let's forget about the loginProcess, I took off a few codes. )
Do I have to do something on returning phase in index() or on Web.config? or, RouteConfig.cs?
I have to use the suffix ".mon" to invoke controllers with it.

Answer 1

I could think of solving this issue by only using a hack. You might want to create a dummy action which will be the default action and upon being hit will redirect the request to your index.mon
i tried following, Please check if this helps you. Thanks.
In the route config
public static void RegisterRoutes(RouteCollection routes)
{
routes.IgnoreRoute("{resource}.axd/{*pathInfo}");
routes.MapRoute(
name: "DefaultY",
url: "{action}-mon/{id}",
defaults: new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional }
);
routes.MapRoute(
name: "DefaultX2",
url: "{action}/{id}",
defaults: new { controller = "Home", action = "Startup", id = UrlParameter.Optional }
);
}
In controller
public class HomeController : Controller
{
public ActionResult Index()
{
return View();
}
public ActionResult Startup()
{
return RedirectToRoute("DefaultY", new {controller = "Home", action = "Index" });
}
}
For me i used index-mon. index.mon was not working (something which i'l explore later, perhaps it relates to static files), but above code demonstrates the approach.
Hope that helps.