How do I configure IIS for URL Rewriting an AngularJS application in HTML5 mode?

Question

I have the AngularJS seed project and I\'ve added

$locationProvider.html5Mode(true).hashPrefix(\'!\');

to the app.js file. I want to confi

Answer 1

The issue with only having these two conditions:

is that they work only as long as the {REQUEST_FILENAME} exists physically on disk. This means that there can be scenarios where a request for an incorrectly named partial view would return the root page instead of a 404 which would cause angular to be loaded twice (and in certain scenarios it can cause a nasty infinite loop).

Thus, some safe "fallback" rules would be recommended to avoid these hard to troubleshoot issues:

or a condition that matches any file ending: