Reloading the page gives wrong GET request with AngularJS HTML5 mode

From the angular docs

Server side
Using this mode requires URL rewriting on server side, basically you have to rewrite all your links to entry point of your application (e.g. index.html)

The reason for this is that when you first visit the page (/about), e.g. after a refresh, the browser has no way of knowing that this isn't a real URL, so it goes ahead and loads it. However if you have loaded up the root page first, and all the javascript code, then when you navigate to /about Angular can get in there before the browser tries to hit the server and handle it accordingly

There are few things to set up so your link in the browser will look like http://yourdomain.com/path and these are your angular config + server side

1) AngularJS

$routeProvider
  .when('/path', {
    templateUrl: 'path.html',
  });
$locationProvider
  .html5Mode(true);

2) server side, just put .htaccess inside your root folder and paste this

RewriteEngine On 
Options FollowSymLinks

RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /#/$1 [L]

More interesting stuff to read about html5 mode in angularjs and the configuration required per different environment https://github.com/angular-ui/ui-router/wiki/Frequently-Asked-Questions#how-to-configure-your-server-to-work-with-html5mode Also this question might help you $location / switching between html5 and hashbang mode / link rewriting

I had a similar problem and I solved it by:

• Using <base href="/index.html"> in the index page

• Using a catch all route middleware in my node/Express server as follows (put it after the router):

app.use(function(req, res) {
    res.sendfile(__dirname + '/Public/index.html');
});

I think that should get you up and running.

If you use an apache server, you might want to mod_rewrite your links. It is not difficult to do. Just a few changes in the config files.

All that is assuming you have html5mode enabled on angularjs. Now. note that in angular 1.2, declaring a base url is not recommended anymore actually.