Problems with Angular deploy-url switch

Question

I want to deploy my spring-boot webapp with angular-frontend to a tomact-server. I build the angular app with angular-cli and the following commando

ng build --deploy-url /mywebapp/

The app works but following problems still exist:

Each time I have to change manually the base href tag to <base href="/mywebapp/">. Why is this not done automatically in the build process?
All paths to static ressources of the 'assets' directory must also changed manually to '/mywebapp/assets' (i.e. <img src="/mywebapp/assets/logo.png">)
Browser refresh of router links URLs (subpaths) does not work anymore. (i.e. angular navigation to http://localhost:8080/mywebapp/feature1 works but if I want to refresh the same URL in the browser it does not work. I can only refresh the root URL http://localhost:8080/mywebapp/)

problem #1 & #2 seems to be solved with base href=".". For problem #3 this one worked for me: stackoverflow.com/questions/42599176/… — surfspider
– surfspider, Commented May 23, 2017 at 14:51
the problem is only solved with firefox browser. with internet explorer this one does not work, it always resolves to root instead of '/mywebapp/'. Do you have any suggestions? — surfspider
– surfspider, Commented May 30, 2017 at 17:34

Parth Ghiya · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 14:49:22Z

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Whenever u build

build it with

ng build --base-href .

This will solve ur Problems #1 & #2

For Problem 3

 <Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.rewrite.RewriteValve" /> 

add rewite.config file in specific project WEB-INF folder with below content for eg. on /opt/tomcat/webapps/projectName/WEB-INF/rewrite.config RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^.*\.(bmp|css|gif|htc|html?|ico|jpe?g|js|pdf|png|swf|txt|xml|svg|eot|woff|woff2|ttf|map)$ RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.html [L] What this does is for each of this route requests it redirects to index.html

answered May 23, 2017 at 14:49

Parth Ghiya

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@surfspider i wrote this answer on based of tomcat & This answer is based on spring boot configuration. u can upvote :p