How can I deploy an Angular 2 application on tomcat server (Windows Server 2012)

Question

I'm new in AngularJS 2 framework and I'm stuck!

I want to deploy an application (quickstart for example) on a Windows Server 2012. I have already installed Apache tomcat on it. What I did : I used the command npm build (with and without "-prod") in order to generate the dist folder (output : index.html & the bundle files) then I putted it into 'webapps' folder in tomcat, then I tried to reach the page using my browser, the index page is showing me "Loading..."! I think that angular is not working...

I tried to install NodeJs on the server then generate a simple project (npm install -g angular-cli) and run it on the server.. it works on the localhost (server) but on my machine using "IP_of_sv:Port" Chrome gives me an error "ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED"!

Can you help me please with simple explanations please?

Thank you in advance!

Answer 1

If your are using angular-cli command to create angular 2 project.Then cli has given some commands to deploy your application into production. Use command like ng build --prod on your project directory and it will generate dist folder in your directory.

Go to inside dist folder and change the base href like href="." in index.html. After that copy dist folder in your tomcat root directory and run the server.. you can see below screen shot our application running on tomcat server.

Answer 2

You can change one place in the index.html: <base href="/">
Make the base href to be your relative path form webapps folder in tomcat to the folder that includes the index.html of your angular app.

In your case, change it to: <base href="./dist">
No other changes are needed.