How to mix CMS and non-CMS pages?

[horacioj]

Hi,

The https://piranhacms.org/docs/master/basics/startup-options page describes for example how to disable the CMS home page and use a custom non-CMS page: options.UseStartpageRouting = false;.

Similarly, all CMS pages routing can be disabled: options.UsePageRouting = false;
If I disable UsePageRouting, no page will be served by the CMS. I want the CMS to serve the pages (routes) defined on it but fallback to the site's page implementation in case of the route (page) isn't in the CMS.

I couldn't find how to keep the CMS pages enabled (options.UsePageRouting = true;) and in case a page doesn't exists in the CMS but a page with the same route exists in the site then render the site's page instead of the CMS page.
How can I do that?

Thanks

[tidyui]

Hi there! This is already the default behavior. When a request is intercepted by the Piranha middleware it tries to find a page or post that matches the requested url. If it's found the middleware will rewrite the request url internally to route of the controller action, or razor page that is responsible for rendering the content type.

The only exception to this is that the middleware is designed to pass on additional route parameters to pages and posts so that they can have business logic and/or other actions on them. For example, if you have a page with the permalink ~/mypage, making a request to ~/mypage/suffix will still rewrite the request to the route of the content type but with the additional parameter.

In MVC this would mean that if the route defined on the page type was /mypageaction, the request would've been rewritten to /mypageaction/suffix?id=.... This way you can have an action route of the following form:

[HttpGet]
[Route("mypageaction/{customParam?}")]
public async Task<IActionResult> MyPageAction(Guid id, string customParam, bool draft = false)
{
   ...
}

However, there's no problem putting standard MVC controllers/actions on routes that is not a child of a permalink of a page/post.

For more information, take a look at https://piranhacms.org/docs/master/application/advanced-routing.

Best regards.

[horacioj]

Thanks, @tidyui.
That's what I thought, but I'm getting 404s for any URL in the site not defined as a page in Piranha.
I'm using Razor pages, with specific @page "/some-thing/other-thing" definitions.
Do you know why I get 404 error pages instead of these pages?

[horacioj]

Ah... I think the problem is /some-thing exists in Piranha. Is there any way to workaround the 404 when requesting /some-thing/other-thing which doesn't exist in Piranha, but exists in the site? i.e. if /some-thing/[whatever] doesn't exist in the CMS then let the website solve it.