I have a simple app running on IIS 8.0 (arvixe hosting) that uses AngularJS for the SPA framework. I turned on html5mode and linked the tag to index.html (the root file), I've also set this file as the in the web.config. I know you have to do server-side rewrites which I have.

What I want to achieve is the following.

User enters 'domain.com' and the site load up domain.com/home . Of course under the URL is actually http://ift.tt/1yh83Mh but html5mode handles that with the rewrites.

Here is the app.config and this is fine. .config(['$routeProvider', '$locationProvider', function ($routeProvider, $locationProvider ) { $routeProvider .when('/home', { templateUrl: 'templates/home.html', controller: 'HomeController' }) .when('/login', { templateUrl: 'templates/login.html', controller: 'LoginController' }) .when('/forum', { templateUrl: 'templates/forum.html', controller: 'ForumController' }) .when('/rebellinks', { templateUrl: 'templates/rebellinks.html', controller: 'RebelLinksController' }) .when('/events', { templateUrl: 'templates/events.html', controller: 'EventsController' }) .when('/oldnews', { templateUrl: 'templates/oldnews.html', controller: 'OldNewsController' }) .otherwise({ redirectTo: '/home' });

//use HTML5 History API
$locationProvider.html5Mode(true);
   }]);

Web.Config file for IIS

 <system.webServer>
    <rewrite>
      <rules>
        <clear />       
        <!--<rule name="jsRule" stopProcessing="true">
          <match url=".js" />
          <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll" trackAllCaptures="false">
            <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsFile" />
          </conditions>
          <action type="None" />
        </rule>-->

        <rule name="SRBShome" enabled="true" stopProcessing="true">
          <match url="^(.*)$" />
          <action type="Rewrite" url="/index.html" />
        </rule>
        <rule name="AngularJS" enabled="false" stopProcessing="true">
          <match url=".*" />
          <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll">
            <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsFile" negate="true" />
            <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsDirectory" negate="true" />
            <add input="{REQUEST_URI}" pattern="^/(api)" negate="true" />
          </conditions>
          <action type="Rewrite" url="/index.html" />
        </rule>        
      </rules>
    </rewrite>
    <defaultDocument enabled="true">
                   <files>
                <clear />
                <add value="index.html" />
                <add value="home.html" />
              </files>
            </defaultDocument>

What this does is loads domain.com/home when the user visits the site but the .js files are transferred as I added a special rule in the rewrite to prevent them from rewriting but I think my pattern on the SRBShome rule needs to be adjusted to work correctly.

Any help appreciated