Angular 2: 404 error occur when I refresh through the browser [duplicate]

Answer 1

For people (like me) who really want PathLocationStrategy (i.e. html5Mode) instead of HashLocationStrategy, see How to: Configure your server to work with html5Mode from a third-party wiki:

When you have html5Mode enabled, the # character will no longer be used in your URLs. The # symbol is useful because it requires no server side configuration. Without #, the URL looks much nicer, but it also requires server side rewrites.

Here I only copy three examples from the wiki, in case the Wiki get lost. Other examples can be found by searching keyword "URL rewrite" (e.g. this answer for Firebase).

Apache

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName my-app

    DocumentRoot /path/to/app

    <Directory /path/to/app>
        RewriteEngine on

        # Don't rewrite files or directories
        RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
        RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
        RewriteRule ^ - [L]

        # Rewrite everything else to index.html to allow HTML5 state links
        RewriteRule ^ index.html [L]
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

Documentation for rewrite module

nginx

server {
    server_name my-app;

    root /path/to/app;

    location / {
        try_files $uri $uri/ /index.html;
    }
}

Documentation for try_files

IIS

<system.webServer>
  <rewrite>
    <rules> 
      <rule name="Main Rule" stopProcessing="true">
        <match url=".*" />
        <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll">
          <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsFile" negate="true" />
          <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsDirectory" negate="true" />
        </conditions>
        <action type="Rewrite" url="/" />
      </rule>
    </rules>
  </rewrite>
</system.webServer>