Configure history.pushState for Angular 2
My Angular 2 application uses the default HTML 5 history.pushState location strategy. How do I configure a server with history.pushState so browser refreshes and browser URLs do not generate 404s?
For example, the Tour of Heroes application has a few different application routes like:
http://localhost:8080/dashboard
http://localhost:8080/heroes
http://localhost:8080/detail/13
If you hit refresh on one of these routes, or type one of the URLs, you'll get 404 since /detail/13 is an application route, not a server resource. I've configured the location strategy at the top of the head in my index.html:
<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
<base href="/">
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>Tour of Heroes</title>
but how should a server be configured so it sends all URLs to my application instead of generating a 404?
Note: This question is the complement to the questions Angular 2 : 404 error occur when i refresh through Browser and Angular 2.0 router not working on reloading the browser asking how to address this problem. For Firebase, there's this: When I refresh my website I get a 404. This is with Angular2 and firebase and for Apache there's this: htaccess redirect for Angular routes.
Answer
nginx
To use nginx:
/etc/nginx/ngin.conf
location / {
root /home/jan/tour-of-heroes/;
index index.html index.htm;
}
error_page 404 =200 /index.html;
- supports
history.pushState - production HTTP server
pushstate-server
To use pushstate-server:
pushstate-server /home/jan/tour-of-heroes
- supports
history.pushState - production HTTP server
express
To use express:
node express.js
where express.js:
var express = require('express'),
path = require('path'),
port = process.env.PORT || 8083,
app = express();
app.use(express.static(__dirname ));
app.get('*', function(request, response){
response.sendFile(path.join(__dirname + '/index.html'));
});
app.listen(port);
- supports
history.pushState - production HTTP server
http-server
To use http-server:
node http-server/bin/http-server /home/jan/tour-of-heroes
- no
history.pushState - production HTTP server
live-server
To use live-server:
live-server --entry-file=index.html /home/jan/tour-of-heroes
- supports
history.pushState - development HTTP server
ng serve
To use ng serve:
ng serve -prod
or with ahead-of-time compilation:
ng serve -prod -aot
- supports
history.pushState - production application build
- development HTTP server