Part 27 Remove # from URL AngularJS

There are 4 simple steps to remove # from URLs in Angular.

Step 1 : Enable html5mode routing. To do this inject $locationProvider into config() function in script.js and call html5Mode() method passing true as the argument value. With this change the config function will now look as shown below.

.config(function ($routeProvider, $locationProvider) {
$routeProvider
.when("/home", {
templateUrl: "Templates/home.html",
controller: "homeController"
})
.when("/courses", {
templateUrl: "Templates/courses.html",
controller: "coursesController"
})
.when("/students", {
templateUrl: "Templates/students.html",
controller: "studentsController"
})
$locationProvider.html5Mode(true);
})

Step 2 : In index.html, remove # symbols from all the links. The links in index.html should look as shown below.

<a href="home">Home</a>
<a href="courses">Courses</a>
<a href="students">Students</a>

Step 3 : Include the following URL rewrite rule in web.config. This rewrite rule, rewrites all urls to index.html, except if the request is for a file, or a directory or a Web API request.

<system.webServer>
<rewrite>
<rules>
<rule name="RewriteRules" stopProcessing="true">
<match url=".*" />
<conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll">
<add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsFile" negate="true" />
<add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsDirectory" negate="true" />
<add input="{REQUEST_URI}" pattern="^/(api)" negate="true" />
</conditions>
<action type="Rewrite" url="/index.html" />
</rule>
</rules>
</rewrite>
</system.webServer>

Step 4 : Set the base href to the location of your single page application. In the head section of index.html include the following line.

<base href="/" />