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diff --git a/docs/content/guide/dev_guide.services.$location.ngdoc b/docs/content/guide/dev_guide.services.$location.ngdoc index 1658ca18..35cde876 100644 --- a/docs/content/guide/dev_guide.services.$location.ngdoc +++ b/docs/content/guide/dev_guide.services.$location.ngdoc @@ -321,6 +321,14 @@ reload to the original link. Example: `<a href="http://angularjs.org/">link</a>` - Links starting with '/' that lead to a different base path when base is defined<br> Example: `<a href="/not-my-base/link">link</a>` + +When running Angular in the root of a domain, along side perhaps a normal application in the same +directory, the "otherwise" route handler will try to handle all the URLs, including ones that map +to static files. + +To prevent this, you can set your base href for the app to `<base href=".">` and then prefix links +to URLs that should be handled with `.`. Now, links to locations, which are not to be routed by Angular, +are not prefixed with `.` and will not be intercepted by the `otherwise` rule in your `$routeProvider`. ### Server side |