$location / switching between html5 and hashbang mode / link rewriting

Question

I was under the impression that Angular would rewrite URLs that appear in href attributes of anchor tags within tempaltes, such that they would work whether in html5 mode or

Answer 1

Fur future readers, if you are using Angular 1.6, you also need to change the hashPrefix:

appModule.config(['$locationProvider', function($locationProvider) {
    $locationProvider.html5Mode(true);
    $locationProvider.hashPrefix('');
}]);

Don't forget to set the base in your HTML :

    
    ...

More info about the changelog here.