Angular 5 deployment to IIS server , navigation routes from dist folder not working

Question

From what I understand, if I do an ng build and deploy the code generated in the "dist" folder, then all the typescript and routing is all ready to work?!

I deployed code in dist folder and the home page comes up just fine

as soon as I click on a link, I get a 404 ( IIS server)

example of a route

/criminal/?UserID...


{ path: 'criminal', component: CriminalComponent, pathMatch: 'full'},

Answer 1

You should follow this tutorial:

https://blog.angularindepth.com/deploy-an-angular-application-to-iis-60a0897742e7

At a high level:

1. Install URL Rewrite
2. Handle subfolder and base URL as needed
3. Add web.config file to be deployed when you do an ng build