AngularJS relative url routing issue - javascript

I have my backend web framework loading my AngularJS app with following URL
http://localhost/New/Alpha/App
I also have it set up so that anything after App will still load the same thing
http://localhost/New/Alpha/App/home
http://localhost/New/Alpha/App/settings
...
I'm trying to make my AngularJS app to work in the way that it would pick up the bit of URL after App and load a controller/template accordingly. I have a problem with routing in my AngularJS app though
var main = angular.module("main", ["ui.bootstrap", "ngRoute"]);
main.config(function($routeProvider, $locationProvider) {
$routeProvider
.when("home", {
templateUrl: "assets/tpl/home.html",
controller: "mainController"
})
.otherwise({
redirectTo: "fail"
});
$locationProvider.html5Mode(true);
});
main.controller("mainController", function($scope) {
console.log("home")
});
If I try this URL
http://localhost/New/Alpha/App/home
it changes the URL to
http://localhost/fail
instead of leaving the URL as it is and loading the template/controller. If however I change the config and give it a full relative URL it does work as supposed to
.when("/New/Alpha/App/home", {
templateUrl: "assets/tpl/home.html",
controller: "mainController"
})
My problem is, that the part of URL before App - /New/Alpha cannot be hardcoded in. It could be /New/Beta, /New/Gamma, etc.
Is what I want to do possible at all without hardcoding the full relative URL match?
UPDATE Sorry, forgot to mention that the number of URL segments before App can change, as in it could be /New/Beta/App and it also could be /New/Another/Beta/App. I don't suppose something like */App or /New/*/App is possible instead of /New/:placeholder/App?

Will this work for you?
var main = angular.module("main", ["ui.bootstrap", "ngRoute"]);
main.config(function($routeProvider, $locationProvider) {
$routeProvider
.when("/New/:greek/App/home", {
templateUrl: "assets/tpl/home.html",
controller: "mainController"
})
.otherwise({
redirectTo: "fail"
});
$locationProvider.html5Mode(true);
});
main.controller("mainController", function($scope) {
console.log("home")
});
You could then retrieve the greek with $routeParams.greek from within your controller.

The general solution to this problem is to have the server pass the app URL to your client-side code. In other words, use server-side code to dynamically write the equivalent of the following on the page:
var appUrl = '/New/Alpha/App';
Then setting up the route provider becomes:
main.config(function($routeProvider, $locationProvider) {
$routeProvider
.when(appUrl + "/home", {
templateUrl: "/assets/tpl/home.html",
controller: "mainController"
})
.otherwise({
redirectTo: appUrl + "/fail"
});
$locationProvider.html5Mode(true);
});
That way the knowledge of the application base URL lives in one place — server-side (which makes sense as only the server is in a position to truly know, if you think about it).
In your specific case, if the application base URL is implicit in the URL structure, you could calculate the following client-side:
var appUrl = window.location.pathname.match(/^\/New\/.*\/App/);
Needs work, but you get the idea. Then you can set up the route provider exactly as above.

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I'm currently working on a MEAN stack project and am trying to get a specific template to display on a specific url.
Currently if users goto www.myurl/catalog, it loads the catalog.html template, as it would with any /catalog?catagory=productType url.
I would like it so that when users go to /catalog?category=specificProductType that it loads the catalogSpecific.html template. Currently, the catalog.html template supersedes the catalogSpecific.html template. I can't find much about this specific issue so any help would be appreciated.
Currently my routes look like this:
app/front/app.js
angular.module('app', ['ngRoute',
'app.LandingModule.controller',
'app.CatalogModule.controller',
'app.ProductModule.controller',
'app.HeaderModule.directives',
'app.FooterModule.directives'
])
.config(['$routeProvider', function($routeProvider) {
$routeProvider
.when('/', {
templateUrl: 'html/landing.html',
controller: 'LandingController'
})
.when('/catalog', {
templateUrl: 'html/catalog.html',
controller: 'CatalogController'
})
.when('/catalog?category=specificProductType', {
templateUrl: 'html/catalogSpecific.html',
controller: 'CatalogController'
})
.otherwise({
redirectTo: '/'
});
}]);
EDIT: Seems I was wrong about this not being possible with the default router. As Hadi describes in their comment, you can replace "templateUrl" with a function that returns a template url given the current route.
To my knowledge you cannot route the way that you want to with the built-in angular router.
As far as I can see you have two options to go with from here:
1: Learn to use the ui-router library (found here: https://github.com/angular-ui/ui-router)
2: Send all routes from /catolog to a controller/page that manually looks at your route-params and re-routes you based off of that manually. (see https://docs.angularjs.org/api/ngRoute/service/$routeParams)
Try use templateUrl function like to this. I have not tested.
templateUrl: function($location){
if($location.category)
return 'html/catalogSpecific.html';
else
return 'html/catalog.html';
},
Demo
I was able to figure this out following Hadi's example:
.when('/catalog', {
templateUrl: function($location){
if($location.category == "specificProductType") {
return 'html/catalogSpecific.html';
} else {
return 'html/catalog.html';
}
},
controller: 'CatalogController'
})

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I have to setup a wordpress site which was developed by another team locally. They used angularjs. I am very new to angular. I placed the wordpress files in wamp server. The name of the folder is playbook.
When I tried to access the site by using url localhost/playbook, I got a javascript error saying localhost/home not found.
I checked the javascript file and I saw routing like this
.when('/', {
controller: 'HomeCtrl',
templateUrl: '/home'
})
When I added /playbook at the start like below of templateUrl, page displayed
.when('/', {
controller: 'HomeCtrl',
templateUrl: '/playbook/home'
})
Why is this happening. Shouldn't the route take the path up to localhost/playbook?
You need to specify the extension .html for the template.Assuming your file is called home.html, replace your current code with
.when('/', {
controller: 'HomeCtrl',
templateUrl: '/playbook/home.html'
})
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foodApp.config(['$routeProvider',function($routeProvider){
$routeProvider.when('/',
{
templateUrl:'js/apps/choiceScreen/choice.html',
controller:'choiceCtrl'
})
.when('/cafe',
{
templateUrl:'js/apps/cafe/cafeScreen.html',
controller:'cafeCtrl'
})
.when('/showCafe/',
{
templateUrl:'js/apps/eachScreen/itemView.html',
controller:'itemCtrl'
})
.otherwise({
redirectTo: '/'
});
}]);

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Im at the moment building an application where i want my urls to be like my-domain.com/ instead of my-domain.com/#/. Because I'm building an SPA with AngularJS, I enabled the html5Mode of the $locationProvider.
However, when i go to another page like my-domain.com/test (defined in my $routeProvider config), I get laravel's error page. This is not what i want because i want AngularJS to handle this route.
I looked around and found things like
App::missing(function($exception)
{
return view('client/index');
});
which sadly dont work in Laravel 5. After researching the new way to handle errors, I decided to test the new Exception Handler, so in my App\Exceptions\Handler.php I did this:
public function render($request, Exception $e)
{
return view('client/index');
}
Unfortunately, this also doesnt work because now it renders a blank page...
Does anyone have an idea how to fix this? Here is my code of my angular ngroute config:
client.config(['$routeProvider', '$locationProvider', function($routeProvider, $locationProvider){
$routeProvider
.when('/', {
templateUrl: '/client_partials/Homepage.html'
})
.when('/test', {
templateUrl: '/client_partials/Homepage.html'
})
.otherwise({
redirectTo : '/'
});
$locationProvider.html5Mode(true);
$locationProvider.hashPrefix('!');
}]);
Here is the route:
Route::any('{path?}', function()
{
return File::get(public_path() . '/angular.html');
})->where("path", ".+");

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I am developing an angular app. Whenever I modify the index.html, a request to localhost:8000 doesn't get the updated index.html. Why is that? I am using nodejs to host the server. I have tripped over this too many times assuming the request would get the updated index.html, such as including a new script but nothing happens because the index.html isn't the updated one. It is quite annoying every time I refresh I have to type index.html.
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$locationProvider.html5Mode(true);
$routeProvider.when('/', {
redirectTo : '/login'
}).when('/dashboard', {
templateUrl: 'app/dashboard/dashboard.html',
controller: 'dashboard'
}).when('/login', {
templateUrl: 'app/layout/login.html'
}).when('/register', {
templateUrl: 'app/layout/register.html'
}).otherwise({
redirectTo: '/'
});
}]);
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Try
location.reload(true)
to load it from the server.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Location.reload

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I'm very new to Angular and I'm currently building a few test/dummy apps to get my head around the way it works and become more-familiar with SPA's in Angular. However, I've stumbled into an issue when I start adding routes to my application and loading the content via ng-view
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routes.js
var cocktailApp = angular.module('cocktailApp', ['ngRoute', 'cocktailControllers']);
cocktailApp.config(['$routeProvider', '$locationProvider', function ($routeProvider, $locationProvider) {
$routeProvider
.when('/cocktails', {
templateUrl: '/partials/cocktail-list.html',
controller: 'cocktailsController'
})
.otherwise({
redirectTo: '/cocktails'
});
$locationProvider.html5mode(true);
}]);
Angular only recognizes anchor URL syntax for URLs pasted directly on the browser. So you have to you try http://localhost/#/sdfsdf instead to make your routing work. Please note that anchor syntax /# was added in previous URL.

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