--deploy-url will have no effect on assets paths

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Versions.

Please run ng --version. If there's nothing outputted, please run in a Terminal: node --version and paste the result here:
@angular/cli: 1.0.0-beta.30 node: 7.5.0 os: win32 x64 @angular/common: 2.4.6 @angular/compiler: 2.4.6 @angular/core: 2.4.6 @angular/forms: 2.4.6 @angular/http: 2.4.6 @angular/platform-browser: 2.4.6 @angular/platform-browser-dynamic: 2.4.6 @angular/router: 3.4.6 @angular/cli: 1.0.0-beta.30 @angular/compiler-cli: 2.4.6

Repro steps.

Was this an app that wasn't created using the CLI? What change did you do on your code? etc.

• create app with the cli
• use img src="assets/logo.png" in a template
• ng build -d mysubfolder -bh mysubfolder
  copy the content of the dist to "htdocs/mysubfolder" on any webserver or use
  app.use('/mysubfolder', express.static(path.join(__dirname, angularDist))); on a node server.

The log given by the failure.

Normally this include a stack trace and some more information.

404 on all assets because it will ignore base href or deploy url and just use GET /assets/logo.png

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[merwok]

Hello! I am running into the same issues.

I am deploying an app written by someone else. Components have hard-coded paths like /assets/img/etc (note the leading slash compared to the OP); the main application files (*.bundle.js and sourcemaps) end up in the root of the dist directory. This is okay for frontend development (using ng serve, /index.html can load /index.bundle.js and /assets/img/etc), but for the actual deployment I would ideally have everything under URLs looking like /static/app/ and /static/assets/ for example.

Ideally, we would have set up different paths and directories from the start if we had thought about the server considerations. Trying to minimize changes at this stage, I found the one-line documentation for base-href and deploy-url not very enlightening, but PR #2276 seemed like deploy-url was intended to solve my issue. I am still experimenting in CI to see if that works for the main js files, but this ticket tells me it won’t help with the assets URLs.

[es-lab]

I had this problem too. All my resources are served on a subdomain. Using the deployUrl option solved the issue for the scripts/styles being loaded from the subdomain inside the index.html. This guaranteed me to not worry about base href so that my routing will work properly, it remains as default /. Regarding other resources like images, try loading them from your styles using the background-image property. As the styles loads from the subdomain, it loads the necessary resources from the subdomain too, including fonts, etc.
Now I have an issue with the favicon as it is an asset, the compiler does not put the deployUrl in the href attribute and I have to put it manually.

[victormejia]

Facing the same issue here, I've got some CSS like this:

label.custom-radio-default-label {
  margin: 0;
  clear: none;
  cursor: pointer;
  background: url(/assets/images/custom-radio-normal.svg) left center no-repeat;
  background-size: 20px;
  font-size: 16px;
  font-weight: normal;
}

and building with ng build --deploy-url https://test.com doesn't seem to have any effect on the output.

[filipesilva]

Largely fixed by #4803.

The ng build --deploy-url https://test.com (with http) scenario isn't catered for currently though.

[es-lab]

@filipesilva #5254 Here is a related issue that I've posted 3 days ago. Hope you will fix this soon.

[merwok]

@filipesilva Does #4803 rewrite paths for assets that are images or javascript files, or only CSS files?

[filipesilva]

@es-lab thank you, I will track the http bug in your issue instead. I'm closing this one then.

@merwok it rewrite paths only for assets in url() inside CSS. Those are the only ones that need path rewriting afaik.

[merwok]

The example in the original message is an image. The source code contains img src="assets/logo.png" (in my case, src="/assets/logo.png") but the files will be served from /static/assets/.