angular ngRoute breaks when using base tag

[jimmywarting]

Demo:
http://plnkr.co/edit/TkADpfgchYVdvNTqRPFT?p=preview

Apparently it's because of the new changes to this: b019a48

It dose not complain when you are actually on that same url as the base href

[jimmywarting]

looks like a duplicate of #3511 unsure

[eddiemonge]

changing line https://github.com/angular/angular.js/blob/master/src/ng/location.js#L56 to:
if (whole && whole.indexOf(begin) == 0) {
produces what seems to be the real error:

Error: [$location:ipthprfx] Invalid url "undefined", missing path prefix "http://localhost:8000/0.0.2/".
http://errors.angularjs.org/1.2.0-dba566a/$location/ipthprfx?p0=undefined&p1=http%3A%2F%2Flocalhost%3A8000%2F0.0.2%2F
    at http://localhost:8000/js/angular.js:78:12
    at Object.LocationHtml5Url.$$parse (http://localhost:8000/js/angular.js:7629:13)
    at $LocationProvider.$get (http://localhost:8000/js/angular.js:8064:15)
    at Object.invoke (http://localhost:8000/js/angular.js:3374:28)
    at http://localhost:8000/js/angular.js:3213:37
    at getService (http://localhost:8000/js/angular.js:3331:39)
    at Object.invoke (http://localhost:8000/js/angular.js:3352:13)
    at http://localhost:8000/js/angular.js:3213:37
    at getService (http://localhost:8000/js/angular.js:3331:39)
    at Object.invoke (http://localhost:8000/js/angular.js:3352:13) 

[petebacondarwin]

The problem is that $$rewrite is returning undefined. This should not happen.

[siddii]

This issue doesn't seem to exist in the latest build from master. Here is a plunkr showing that - http://plnkr.co/edit/LqWdroJBtM3O5iUiOVL7?p=preview

[jimmywarting]

@siddii nope, the problem is still there, you just forgot the base tag updated the code to the latest version
http://plnkr.co/edit/TkADpfgchYVdvNTqRPFT?p=preview

[caitp]

There are two issues, one is probably very difficult to change at this point.

1. the base tag sets the application's base url (and is therefore responsible for more than just how relative links are processed), this affects how urls get rewritten

2. rewriting the base url which points to an external site means that you're going to be passing undefined to beginsWith() when $location is instantiated. This is the expected behaviour, as it's not expected that you'll set the base href to something external to the application.

We might need an alternative way to bootstrap the application, like a way to specify the "real" base url in a config block before $locationProvider.$get is ever called. I notice that PRs are welcome =)

[levarberry]

Using AJS 1.3.4 when HTML5mode is true ... AngularJS doesn't work at all.. Getting Error TypeError: Url is undefined.

[caitp]

@levarberry do you have a stack trace? please file a bug with more information, thanks!

[Narretz]

Basically this is a request for the ngAppRoot directive: #3102