I need to be able to be able to use a URL without a hash in order to implement a redirect for SAML login. So I enabled HTML5 mode in my AngularJS app and set the base href in index.html. Now the app doesn’t show any hashes when I login.

For example, I get sent to https://myplatform.example.com/logbase/zonesAdmin instead of https://myplatform.example.com/logbase/#/zonesAdmin. At least, that’s what I see in the address bar.

However, if I try to go directly to https://myplatform.example.com/logbase/zonesAdmin, I get a 404 Not Found error.

And if I put the URL that contains the # in the address bar, I get sent to the zonesAdmin page like always.

How can I get my app to accept the non-# URL as a direct link?

So far, I put <base href="/logbase/"> in index.html and I added $locationProvider.html5Mode({ enabled: true }); to my javascript. That much works.

I also messed around with all combinations of rewriteLinks and requireBase in the html5Mode call. Didn’t seem to help.

A lot of the docs I looked at show Apache rewrite rules, but those didn’t work. Not sure if I’m putting them in the right place. We have some complicated proxying going on to sort between a couple of APIs and the logbase frontend.