angularjs view loads only on hard refresh and not on redirect

7
votes

I am working on my angular app and have setup the routes like so


    angular.module('app', ['ngRoute'])
        .config(function ($routeProvider, $locationProvider) {
            $routeProvider.when('/', {
                template : "",
                controller : function($window) {
                $window.location.href = '/';
                }
            }).when('/test', {
                    redirectTo : '/test/dashboard'
            }).when('/test/dashboard', {
                    templateUrl : '../partials/dashboard.html',
                    controller : 'DashboardController'
            }).when('/test/unit', {
                    templateUrl : '../partials/unit.html',
                    controller : 'unitController'
            });
            $locationProvider.html5Mode(true);
    });

HTML is

<body ng-app="app">
    ...
    <div id="sidebar-wrapper" class="fill-height sidebar-nav">
      <ul class="tabRow nav nav-stacked">

        <li ng-class="{active: isActive('dashboard') }"><a id="dashboardLink" ng-href="#test/dashboard">Dashboard</a>
        </li>

        <li ng-class="{active: isActive('unit') }"><a id="unitLink" ng-href="#test/unit">Unit</a>
        </li>
      </ul>
    </div>
    ...
</body>

Problem:

This code will redirect the URL to "/test/dashboard" when I enter "/test" but the html for that page does not show up. However when I refresh the page with that route, it displays the html in the content area of the page.

When I toggle between links, the dashboard shows up, just does not load the first time it is navigated to.

Also, when I change the redirect to /test/unit, it redirects correctly and displays the unit.html.

Not sure what is causing this behavior.

Any help would be appreciated.

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is the DashboardController correct name? for the other controller you are using small case like for the first word unitController. Are there any errors on the js console? – kachhalimbu
I dont think the issue is related to the name of controller, I made sure of that. There are no js console errors. – Programmer

2 Answers

0
votes

I think you need to specify requireBase: false while configuring html5Mode for your $locationProvider

$locationProvider.html5Mode({
  enabled: true,
  requireBase: false
});

Here is a working plnkr demo

For more context relative to your deployment you should be aware of this form angular docs

0
votes

It works if you remove -

$locationProvider.html5Mode(true);

Or, going by a similar question's answer you could add -

<base href="/" />

to your <head />.