Custom route for wild card

Question

I'm trying to develop a custom route for this use case.
The following URL patterns:

https://example.com/new/Brand-1/product-1.htm

https://example.com/used/Brand-2/product-2.htm

should be redirected to https://example.com/products

The Brand & Product names in the URL may change, but the relative root will always be either /new or /used.

When I browse this URL - https://example.com/used/mybrand/myproduct.htm, it throws the error:

Here is the code:

RouteConfig.cs:

public class RouteConfig
    {
        public static void RegisterRoutes(RouteCollection routes)
        {
            routes.IgnoreRoute("{resource}.axd/{*pathInfo}");            

            routes.MapRoute("OldUsed", "used/{make}/{name}", new
            {
                controller = "RedirectToListing",
                action = "RedirectOldVdpToVlp",
                make = "",
                name=""
            });

        }
    }

InitializeRoutes.cs:

public class InitializeRoutes : Sitecore.Mvc.Pipelines.Loader.InitializeRoutes
    {
        public override void Process(PipelineArgs args)
        {
            RouteConfig.RegisterRoutes(RouteTable.Routes);
        }        
    }

z_Feature.Base.Pipelines.config:

<configuration xmlns:patch="http://www.sitecore.net/xmlconfig/">
  <sitecore>
    <pipelines>
      <initialize>
        <processor type="Feature.Base.Pipelines.InitializeRoutes, Feature.Base" patch:before="processor[@type='Sitecore.Mvc.Pipelines.Loader.InitializeRoutes, Sitecore.Mvc']" />
      </initialize>
    </pipelines>
  </sitecore>
</configuration>

Is this the right way.

Answer 1

You can use IIS Rewrite inbound rules to accomplish this, for example:

<rule name="Property URL Rewrite" stopProcessing="true">
   <match url="^new/Brand-([0-9]+)/Product-([0-9]+)$" />
   <action type="Rewrite" url="/products?brand={R:1}&amp;product={R:2}" appendQueryString="true" logRewrittenUrl="false" />
</rule>
                    
<rule name="Property URL Rewrite" stopProcessing="true">
    <match url="^used/Brand-([0-9]+)/Product-([0-9]+)$" />
    <action type="Rewrite" url="/products?brand={R:1}&amp;product={R:2}" appendQueryString="true" logRewrittenUrl="false" />
</rule>

If you have links on the pages aswell you might need to create an outbound rule aswell to handle them, for example https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/iis/extensions/url-rewrite-module/creating-outbound-rules-for-url-rewrite-module