AngularJS, Spring MVC, Tuckey URL Rewrite

I wanted to use html5Mode with an existing Spring MVC backend. This assumes that the front-end code will be deployed as part of the WAR file.

I did the following steps:

1. In Angular, I added the following html5Mode config:

$locationProvider.html5Mode(true).hashPrefix('!');

2. In Spring MVC, I added the Tuckey URL Rewrite Module in the Maven pom.xml:

<dependency>
<groupId>org.tuckey</groupId>
<artifactId>urlrewritefilter</artifactId>
<version>3.0.4</version>
</dependency>

3. Do a Maven Update 4. Open the web.xml and enter the following within the web-app tag (I left the debug line there)

<filter>
<filter-name>UrlRewriteFilter</filter-name>
<filter-class>org.tuckey.web.filters.urlrewrite.UrlRewriteFilter</filter-class>
<init-param>
<param-name>logLevel</param-name>
<param-value>DEBUG</param-value>
</init-param>
</filter>

<filter-mapping>
<filter-name>UrlRewriteFilter</filter-name>
<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
<dispatcher>REQUEST</dispatcher>
<dispatcher>FORWARD</dispatcher>
</filter-mapping>

5. Create a urlrewrite.xml under the WEB-INF folder of the your Spring project and the contents should look like the following:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE urlrewrite PUBLIC "-//tuckey.org//DTD UrlRewrite 4.0//EN"
"http://www.tuckey.org/res/dtds/urlrewrite4.0.dtd">

<!--

Configuration file for UrlRewriteFilter
http://www.tuckey.org/urlrewrite/

-->
<urlrewrite>

<rule>
<from>^/mypage$</from>
<to>/index.html</to>
</rule>

</urlrewrite>


And that is it! I had trouble before cause I was using 'index.html' in the 'to' tag instead of '/index.html'