express-webapp-host

Simple express middleware to host a static directory under a deeper url by rewriting the webapps index.html base tag

index.html

The index.html base tag must be present.

<meta charset="utf-8">
<base href='http://localhost:8888/' />
<title>My App</title>

It will be rewritten to the actual base path. Using the express example below when access via localhost it would rewrite it to:

<meta charset="utf-8">
<base href='http://localhost:8080/url/to/app/' />
<title>My App</title>

All url in the app should be relative paths.

usage with express

var webAppHost = require('express-webapp-host');
var express = require('express');
var app = express();

app.use('/url/to/app/', webAppHost.webApp('./path/to/app/on/disk'));
app.listen(8080)

angular.js

In combination with angular.js it is now possible to deep link when using Html5 Mode

$locationProvider.html5Mode(true);

Make sure all paths are relative unless you explicitly want to leave the sub location ('/url/to/app/' in the example above)