How to route EVERYTHING other than Web API to /index.html

Question

I\'ve been working on an AngularJS project, inside of ASP.NET MVC using Web API. It works great except when you try to go directly to an angular routed URL

Answer 1

in my case none of these approaches worked. i was stuck in 2 error message hell. either this type of page is not served or some sort of 404.

url rewrite worked:

    
      
        
          

          
            
            
            
          
          
        
      
    
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notice i matched on [a-zA-Z] because i don't want to rewrite any of the .js .map etc urls.

this worked in VS out of hte box, but in IIS you may need to install a url-rewrite module https://www.iis.net/downloads/microsoft/url-rewrite