I've been searching and I've found "solutions" to this problem, yet I still can't get this to work right.
I'm building an Angular (version 1.2) website with the UI Router and running it on a Node server on localhost. I'm trying to make it have "pretty" url's with the $locationProvider and by turning html5(true) on. My website works fine when clicking through it, but when I try to navigate to a relative link path or refresh the link path the page breaks. I also intend to deploy this webapp to Heroku when completed:
RELATIVE LINK PATH:
http://localhost:8000/locksmith-services
PAGE OUTPUT RESULT
Cannot GET /locksmith-services
1.) In my "index.html" < head >, I've set my base url to:
<base href="/"></base>
2.) In my app.js file (for Angular), I have it written as follows:
// App Starts
angular
.module('app', [
'ui.router',
'ngAnimate',
'angular-carousel'
])
.config(['$urlRouterProvider', '$stateProvider', '$locationProvider', function($urlRouterProvider, $stateProvider, $locationProvider) {
$urlRouterProvider.otherwise("/");
$stateProvider
.state('home', {
url: '/',
templateUrl: 'pages/home.html',
controller: 'homeCtrl'
})
.state('services', {
url: '/locksmith-services',
templateUrl: 'pages/locksmith-services.html',
controller: 'servicesCtrl'
})
.state('locations', {
url: '/locksmith-locations',
templateUrl: 'pages/locksmith-locations.html'
})
.state('payment', {
url: '/locksmith-payment',
templateUrl: 'pages/locksmith-payment.html'
})
// use the HTML5 History API
$locationProvider.html5Mode(true);
}])
3.) In my navigation, I have my html written as:
<div class="wrapper">
<a ui-sref="home">
<img src="images/logo.png" class="logo" alt="Austin Texas Locksmith" />
</a>
</div>
<nav class="row navigation">
<a class="mobile33" ui-sref="services" ui-sref-active="active" class="active">Services</a>
<a class="mobile33" ui-sref="locations" ui-sref-active="active">Locations</a>
<a class="mobile33" ui-sref="payment" ui-sref-active="active">Payment</a>
</nav>
4.) My server.js file (node server)
var express = require('express');
var app = express();
app.use(express.static(__dirname + '/front'));
var port = process.env.PORT || 8000;
app.listen(port);
What would be the best solution? Thanks in advance for your help.
Thanks to @trehyu for helping me get to this answer.
Like he wrote, I needed something setup on my server.js file that redirects the user to my "index.html" file.
So depending on your file structure...
BEFORE (not working)
var express = require('express');
var app = express();
app.use(express.static(__dirname + '/front'));
var port = process.env.PORT || 8000;
app.listen(port);
AFTER (working)
var express = require('express');
var app = express();
app.use('/js', express.static(__dirname + '/front/js'));
app.use('/build', express.static(__dirname + '/../build'));
app.use('/css', express.static(__dirname + '/front/css'));
app.use('/images', express.static(__dirname + '/front/images'));
app.use('/pages', express.static(__dirname + '/front/pages'));
app.all('/*', function(req, res, next) {
// Just send the index.html for other files to support HTML5Mode
res.sendFile('/front/index.html', { root: __dirname });
});
var port = process.env.PORT || 8000;
app.listen(port);
I hope this helps someone else!