Recently, I encountered an issue after restructuring the folder organization of my AngularJS application. Although I believe this might be a distraction from the root cause, I moved a section of functionality to its own directory for better organization. After updating all script tag references and templateUrl values in the $stateProvider section, everything seems to load without any 404 errors. However, I noticed that I am unable to directly link to a specific URL within my app anymore.
Specifically, when trying to access http://myapp.com/an/membership directly in the browser, I receive a GET http://myapp.com/an/membership/ 403 (Forbidden) error. Strangely, the route has 4 child states or URLs which can be deep linked successfully. Even links within the app using ui-sref work fine. Below is the routing code snippet along with my concerns:
/* This is the parent state of my membership state !! */
.state('sfm.in', {
abstract: true,
url: '/an/',
templateUrl: '/an/views/member-home/member-home-wrapper.html'
})
/* here the url is http://myapp.com/an/membership - I can link to it using ui-sref but can't deep link, I get a "403 forbidden", everything loads as expected (not sure if I need the abstract). */
.state('sfm.in.membership', {
url: 'membership',
templateUrl: '/an/membership/views/membership.html',
controller: 'MembershipCtrl',
abstract: true
})
/* this child state is a default and has the same URL as the parent - http://myapp.com/an/membership*/
.state('sfm.in.membership.advantages', {
url: '',
templateUrl: '/an/membership/views/membership-advantages.html'
})
/* No problem with deeplinking - http://myapp.com/an/membership/payment */
.state('sfm.in.membership.payment', {
url: '/payment',
controller: 'MembershipPaymentCtrl',
templateUrl: '/an/membership/views/membership-payment.html'
})
/* No problem with deeplinking http://myapp.com/an/membership/account */
.state('sfm.in.membership.account', {
url: '/account',
controller: 'MembershipAccountCtrl',
templateUrl: '/an/membership/views/membership-account.html'
})
/* No problem with deeplinking http://myapp.com/an/membership/data */
.state('sfm.in.membership.data', {
url: 'data',
controller: 'MembershipDataCtrl',
templateUrl: '/an/membership/views/membership-data.html'
});
I have configured $locationProvider.html5Mode correctly in my app since I can deep link and manually enter URLs for other pages. If there are any insights into what might be causing this issue, please share. * UPDATE * I included the parent state in the routing example, refer to my comment on the initial response!