Ember should use #! instead of html5 push feature

[emad-elsaid]

Scenario

1. open devtools
2. choose a tool and open it
3. copy the url and send it to a friend
4. user opens the url
5. github pages complain that the page doesn't exists

   Cause

ember use HTML5 history push by default so auto prefix tool for example has the url http://www.blazeboy.me/devtools/autoprefixer, github can't redirect user the index.html and can't be configured to do so.

Solution

We should use the #! notation instead so the autoprefixer tools should has http://www.blazeboy.me/devtools/index.html#!autoprefixer instead of http://www.blazeboy.me/devtools/autoprefixer also the whole app should has a switch in environment files to fix/ignore fix.

[AmrEldib]

I wonder if you can use 404 page to redirect to index.html/RouteName Read here

[emad-elsaid]

interesting, i didn't know that workaround, yes i think it could work. https://help.github.com/articles/custom-404-pages/ https://github.com/lionello/lionello.github.io/commit/c175f6524a53e29aea1890c8a758afd0e8944852

[emad-elsaid]

it didn't work, github can't find urls such as index.html/autoprefixer i think we'll need to fallback to the previously suggested workaround, using #! instead, any other ideas we can try?

[emad-elsaid]

it turns out that this is a simple configuration key in the environment :D