How to redirect user to default url

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I'm using angular-ui-router with HTML5 mode set to false - I use hashbang. When user hits mydomain.com I need to redirect him to mydomain.com/#/welcome, how can I do that?

I've looked through ui-router source code and when mydomain.com is hit the $location.path() is "" so this approach .when("", "/welcome") doesn't work since .when("" translates into this /^$/ regex and when "" is tested against this regex null is returned.

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 10 '15 at 10:54

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This seems to be a viable solution:

appModule.run(['$location', function ($location) {

    if ($location.path() === "") {
        $location.path("/");
    }

answered Jul 10 '15 at 10:54

Max Koretskyi

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score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:58

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Use $urlRouterProvider.otherwise to redirect to your welcome page if the current URL doesn't match any of your states.

$urlRouterProvider.otherwise('/welcome');

See this stack overflow question: Otherwise on StateProvider

edited May 23 '17 at 11:58

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answered Jul 09 '15 at 17:52

shieldstroy

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In my app I use `.otherwise` to redirect to `not found` page – Max Koretskyi Jul 09 '15 at 20:21
check [my](http://stackoverflow.com/a/31338999/2545680) answer to this question if interested – Max Koretskyi Jul 10 '15 at 10:54

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 09 '15 at 17:57

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If you just want to show welcome.html you can do something like below

.when('/', {
                templateUrl: 'welcome.html',
                controller: 'homeCtrl'
            })

Else if you want to redirect user to mydomain.com/#/welcome you can use window.locations or you can handle it as the part of homeCtrl where you can redirect it using $location.path('/welcome'); and below be route for it

.when('/welcome', {
                templateUrl: 'welcome.html',
                controller: 'welcomeCtrl'
            })

answered Jul 09 '15 at 17:57

Rishi Saraf

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`.when('/'` won't trigger redirect if you hit `mydomain.com` in hashbang mode. It will be triggered if you hit `mydomain.com/#/` – Max Koretskyi Jul 09 '15 at 20:22
check [my](http://stackoverflow.com/a/31338999/2545680) answer to this question if interested – Max Koretskyi Jul 10 '15 at 10:54

How to redirect user to default url

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