how to remove hash tag (#) from url address in ui-router

Question

My url looks like this http://127.0.0.1:50884/index.html#/home

This is index page. I am using angular ui-router to change to various views like but url comes with # tag like this: http://127.0.0.1:50884/index.html#/mobileOperator http://127.0.0.1:50884/index.html#/contentExpertise

Question : Is there a way to remove/clean # tag from url.. to show the url path like below:

http://127.0.0.1:50884/index.html/home

http://127.0.0.1:50884/index.html/contentExpertise

I tried html5mode but it give angular error in console.

Error: [$location:nobase] http://errors.angularjs.org/1.5.0-rc.2/$location/nobase
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Please help

Answer 1

By default, AngularJS will route URLs with a hashtag. It is very easy to get clean URLs and remove the hashtag from the URL using $locationProvider in AngularJS. You need to inject $locationProvider into your config section of module and use the HTML5 History API like this. e.g.

app.config(function ($stateProvider, $urlRouterProvider, $locationProvider) {
    $stateProvider
        .state('home', {
            url: '/home',
            templateUrl: 'partial-home.html'
        })
        .state('about', {
            url: '/aboutus',
            templateUrl: 'aboutus.html'   
        });
    $locationProvider.html5Mode(true);
});

Also don't forget to put a <base href="/"> tag inside index.html section.

Answer 2

In order for html5 mode to work you must define a baseurl like:

<base href="whatever/" />

See w3schools for more information: http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_base.asp