Deploy angular application in apache folder

Question

I have Apache server which is running Angular 6 application under /var/www/html/<angular_root>. I tried to add one folder /var/www/html/admin/<angular_root> but I get errors Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 (Not Found). Do you know what configuration I need to implement?

My current apache configuration is:

<Directory /var/www/html/admin>
 Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
 AllowOverride All
 Require all granted
</Directory>

• MikeOne: Are you setting the correct base Href in your angular index.html file?
• Kishan Parekh: @MikeOne and @sancelot have correctly diagnosed the issue. By default, DocumentRoot is set to /var/www/html, and since you are using admin directory, you should have used base ref as '/admin' instead of default '/' at the time of compilation. You can later change it within generated index.html if you wish. @DmitryK has used DocumentRoot same as path of directory to host Angular code, so default base ref is working fine.
• Joel Joseph: I have written a article about the same angular-6-deploy-on-apache-server-by-solving-404 , hope this helps you : joeljoseph.net/…

Answer 1

Your angular project(s base href is wrong. when you deploy your application, specify base-href on the cmdline :

ng build --prod --base-href ./

for reference https://angular.io/guide/deployment

• Miro J.: For people coming late to this answer, the property --prod is deprecated. Use ng build --configuration production

Answer 2

Here is my working example:

<VirtualHost fancy.local:80>
 DocumentRoot "/abs/path/to/fancy/dist/browser"
 ServerName fancy.local
 <Directory "/abs/path/to/fancy/dist/browser">
 Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI
 AllowOverride All
 Require all granted
 </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

Where dist/browser is a generated sources with index.html

• Kishan Parekh: As a side note, since you only host Angular code, Options should not be defined with "Indexes", "FollowSymLinks", "Includes" and "ExecCGI" for security reasons.

Answer 3

You need to add rewrite rules to .htaccess. Otherwise the requests to your routes won't be redirected back to index.html for rendering. Look at the following link for Apache deployment: https://angular.io/guide/deployment

RewriteEngine On
 # If an existing asset or directory is requested go to it as it is
 RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}%{REQUEST_URI} -f [OR]
 RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}%{REQUEST_URI} -d
 RewriteRule ^ - [L]
 # If the requested resource doesn't exist, use index.html
RewriteRule ^ /index.html

Answer 4

One of my project which was on tomcat server, I have done the following:

1. Create a new folder inside src/WEB-INF.
2. Inside WEB-INF folder create web.xml with below code.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app version="3.0" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_3_0.xsd">
 <error-page>
 <error-code>404</error-code>
 <location>/</location>
 </error-page>
</web-app>

1. Update your angular.json build> assets section, when you build your project it will get copied to final ./dist folder.

"assets": [
 {
 "input": "src/assets",
 "output": "/assets/"
 },
 "src/favicon.ico",
 "src/WEB-INF"
 ],

4. Update your index.html file <base href="./">

Hope this will helps someone.