ASP.NET 5 and Angular Routing not working on dnx rc1

Question

Hi I have a project built in ASP.NET 5 (dnxcore50 and dnx451). It is serving the requests for my AngularJS scripts. When I built the project I was using the Microsoft beta 5 dependencies and using a rewrite rule to send all the requests to index.html and so my angular routing would work just fine. But today I had to upgrade to the rc1 dependencies and now my rewrite is not working and I'm just getting a 404 on my route. This new libraries added this weird lines of code to my web.config

  <handlers>
  <add name="httpPlatformHandler" path="*" verb="*" modules="httpPlatformHandler" resourceType="Unspecified" />
</handlers>
<httpPlatform processPath="%DNX_PATH%" arguments="%DNX_ARGS%" forwardWindowsAuthToken="false" startupTimeLimit="3600" />

Is there a way how can I set my routing so that it works with angular for example if I go to localhost/shop it will redirect it to index.html and my angular routing will take over.

Answer 1

I am on similar setup and I have in Configure in Startup.cs,

    app.UseDefaultFiles();

    app.UseStaticFiles();

    app.UseIISPlatformHandler();

and a rewrite rule in system.webServer in web.config, needed that to be able to have both web api and index.html angular app served:

    <rewrite>
      <rules>
        <!--Redirect selected traffic to index -->
        <rule name="Index Rule" stopProcessing="true">
          <match url=".*" />
          <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll">
            <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsFile" negate="true" />
            <add input="{REQUEST_URI}" matchType="Pattern" pattern="^/api/" negate="true" />
          </conditions>
          <action type="Rewrite" url="/index.html" />
        </rule>
      </rules>
    </rewrite>

You may need something similar too with your own rules