Apache rewrite rules not being applied for angular

Question

I am trying to setup apache 2.2 with AngularJS with an almost exact structure as the one from the following closed question.

rewrite rules for apache 2 to use with angular js

I would like to redirect all requests to app/index.html except for requests to /api.

My directory structure is as followed

• /
• /app
• /app/index.html
• /app/css
• /app/js
• /api

I am trying to apply these redirect rules in the httpd-vhosts file as such which was posted as the correct answer https://stackoverflow.com/a/15284848/671095 to the question.

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName www.test.com
DocumentRoot "C:/websites/test"
Alias /CFIDE "C:/websites/CFIDE"

RewriteEngine On

# if a directory or a file exists, use it directly
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -s [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -l [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/api

# otherwise forward it to index.html 
RewriteRule ^.*$ - [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^app/. /app/index.html [NC,L]

</VirtualHost>

However when I try visit / in the browser I am presented with a blank screen. If I enter to /app/index.html in the browser however I am able to view the html page in my browser but none of the css.or js can be accessed and is returning a 404.

I have been going nuts over this which seems like a simple thing to accomplish as an apache rewrite.

Any help would be much appreciated

Answer 1

I had this same issue. But I'm ignorant in mod_rewrite so had to Google a lot. I found the solution in this email:

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/angular/GmNiNVyvonk/mmffPbIcnRoJ

So I think your .htaccess should look as follows:

Options +FollowSymLinks
IndexIgnore */*

RewriteEngine on

# if a directory or a file exists, use it directly
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -s [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -l [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/api
RewriteRule ^.*$ - [NC,L]

# otherwise forward it to index.html 
RewriteRule ^app/(.*) /app/#/$1 [NC,L]

Notice the (.*) and the #/$1

Note: you MUST use absolute paths in your includes CSS, JS, etc. if not you are going to get the error:

resource interpreted as script but transferred with mime type text/html

Answer 2

Don't know if you are still having this problem, but I was having the same symptoms with AngularJS and Apache 2.

My problem was actually that I was using IE and it was automatically coming up in compatability mode. I used the line below in my HTML and it worked.

<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge" />

Described further here: < What does <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge"> do? >.

Answer 3

This is now much easier in Apache 2.2.16+ using the FallbackResource directive.

FallbackResource /app/index.html

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_dir.html#fallbackresource

Depending on how you're forwarding access to your API you may need to also leverage the enclosure to disable the fallback resource on specifically on API requests (2.2.24+).

<Directory /api>
    FallbackResource disabled
</Directory> 

Answer 4

This works for me:

<ifModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !index
    RewriteRule (.*) index.html [L]
</ifModule>