Using $window or $location to Redirect in AngularJS

Question

The app I am working on contains various states (using ui-router), where some states require you to be logged in, others are publicly available.

I have created a method that validly checks whether a user is logged in, what I am currently having issues with is actually redirecting to our login-page when necessary. It should be noted that the login page is not currently placed within the AngularJS app.

app.run(function ($rootScope, $location, $window) {


    $rootScope.$on('$stateChangeStart', function (event, toState, toParams, fromState, fromParams) {

        if (toState.data.loginReq && !$rootScope.me.loggedIn) {
            var landingUrl = $window.location.host + "/login";
            console.log(landingUrl);
            $window.open(landingUrl, "_self");
        }
    });
});

The console.log shows the intended url properly. The line after that, I have tried practically everything from $window.open to window.location.href and no matter what I've tried no redirect happens.

EDIT (RESOLVED):

Found the issue.

var landingUrl = $window.location.host + "/login";
$window.open(landingUrl, "_self");

The variable landingUrl was set to 'domain.com/login', which would not work with $window.location.href (which was one of the things I tried). However after changing the code to

var landingUrl = "http://" + $window.location.host + "/login";
$window.location.href = landingUrl;

it now works.

Answer 1

I believe the way to do this is $location.url('/RouteTo/Login');

Edit for Clarity

Say my route for my login view was /Login, I would say $location.url('/Login') to navigate to that route.

For locations outside of the Angular app (i.e. no route defined), plain old JavaScript will serve:

window.location = "http://www.my-domain.com/login"