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Asked: 2026-06-09T06:32:00+00:00

So I’ve set up an HTML5 single page application, and it’s working well. The

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So I’ve set up an HTML5 single page application, and it’s working well. The page is at /App/ and when some one goes to content it looks like /App/Content/1234.

One problem: If the user refreshes the page the server can’t find that URL because it doesn’t actually exist. If I send them to /App/#/Content/1234, they’re golden, but what is the best way to do this? I have a LOT of different styles of URL under /App.

What is the best way to globally catch any request under ~/App/(.*) and redirect it to ~/App/#/$1?

The only route registered in MVC is the standard OOTB route.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Sounds like your server is not re-writing the urls to the app’s base URL.

    The URL re-writing needed on the web server is server-dependent. For Apache, you’d use mod_rewrite.

    Instead, switch Angular to the “Hashbang mode” (the default) so the urls will all store the local state after the # in the url.

    I don’t want my apps to require server configuration changes, so I recommend hashbang mode.

    See AngularJS docs. See section “Hashbang and HTML5 Modes” The HTML5 mode section describes all the configuration issues needed to support HTML5 mode for the urls.

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