universal: Universal App fails on http://localhost:4200 but works on http://localhost:4200/index.html

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What modules are related to this Issue?

- [ ] aspnetcore-engine
- [ ] common
- [x] express-engine
- [ ] hapi-engine
- [ ] module-map-ngfactory-loader

What is the current behavior?

I followed the instructions on the angular-cli wiki to use universal, all compiled correctly with no errors.

The Universal App fails on http://localhost:4200 the first time it loads but works on http://localhost:4200/index.html

It works fine if I just run a http-server on client folder.

After loading http://localhost:4200/index.html the first time, then http://localhost:4200 is accessible.

The error I receive is 500 with a response of :

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>Error</title>
</head>
<body>
<pre>Error</pre>
</body>
</html>

Which seems to be a server error.

Please tell us about your environment:

  "dependencies": {
    "@amcharts/amcharts3-angular": "^2.0.3",
    "@angular/animations": "5.2.10",
    "@angular/cdk": "5.2.3",
    "@angular/common": "5.2.10",
    "@angular/compiler": "5.2.10",
    "@angular/core": "5.2.10",
    "@angular/forms": "5.2.10",
    "@angular/http": "5.2.10",
    "@angular/material": "5.2.3",
    "@angular/platform-browser": "5.2.10",
    "@angular/platform-browser-dynamic": "5.2.10",
    "@angular/platform-server": "5.2.10",
    "@angular/router": "5.2.10",
    "@angular/service-worker": "5.2.10",
    "@ngrx/effects": "5.1.0",
    "@ngrx/router-store": "5.0.1",
    "@ngrx/store": "5.1.0",
    "@ngrx/store-devtools": "5.1.0",
    "@nguniversal/express-engine": "^5.0.0",
    "@nguniversal/module-map-ngfactory-loader": "^5.0.0",
    "@ngx-share/buttons": "^5.0.0-beta.3",
    "@ngx-share/core": "^5.0.0-beta.3",
    "@nrwl/nx": "0.8.0",
    "@swimlane/ngx-datatable": "^11.1.5",
    "@toverux/ngx-sweetalert2": "^3.0.1",
    "amcharts3": "github:amcharts/amcharts3",
    "angular2-jwt": "^0.2.3",
    "classlist.js": "^1.1.20150312",
    "core-js": "^2.4.1",
    "google-libphonenumber": "^3.0.9",
    "lodash": "^4.17.4",
    "ng2-cookies": "^1.0.12",
    "ng2-pagination": "^2.0.1",
    "ngx-chips": "^1.6.1",
    "ngx-clipboard": "9.1.3",
    "ngx-order-pipe": "^2.0.1",
    "ngx-toastr": "^8.3.2",
    "ngx-uploader": "^4.2.4",
    "papaparse": "^4.3.6",
    "query-string": "^5.1.0",
    "raven-js": "^3.24.2",
    "rxjs": "^5.5.10",
    "socket.io-client": "^2.0.4",
    "sweetalert2": "^7.0.6",
    "tm-intro.js": "^2.9.0-alpha.1",
    "vis": "^4.21.0",
    "web-animations-js": "^2.3.1",
    "zone.js": "^0.8.26"
  },
  "devDependencies": {
    "@angular-devkit/core": "0.5.7",
    "@angular-devkit/schematics": "0.5.7",
    "@angular/cli": "1.7.4",
    "@angular/compiler-cli": "5.2.10",
    "@angular/language-service": "5.2.10",
    "@nrwl/schematics": "0.8.0",
    "@types/intro.js": "^2.4.3",
    "@types/jasmine": "~2.5.53",
    "@types/jasminewd2": "~2.0.2",
    "@types/node": "~6.0.60",
    "@types/vis": "^4.21.0",
    "codelyzer": "~3.1.1",
    "jasmine-core": "~2.6.2",
    "jasmine-spec-reporter": "~4.1.0",
    "karma": "~1.7.0",
    "karma-chrome-launcher": "~2.1.1",
    "karma-cli": "~1.0.1",
    "karma-coverage-istanbul-reporter": "^1.2.1",
    "karma-jasmine": "~1.1.0",
    "karma-jasmine-html-reporter": "^0.2.2",
    "ngrx-store-freeze": "^0.2.0",
    "npm-run-all": "^4.1.2",
    "prettier": "1.10.2",
    "protractor": "~5.1.2",
    "ts-loader": "^3.5.0",
    "ts-node": "~3.2.0",
    "tslint": "~5.3.2",
    "typescript": "2.6.2",
    "webpack-node-externals": "^1.6.0"
  }

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State: closed
Created 6 years ago
Reactions: 4
Comments: 21

Most upvoted comments

@RicardoVaranda , could you resolve this issue before? I noticed that the express server was not serving index.html simply. Please use res.sendFile() , instead of res.render()

totheskyer on Apr 9, 2019

Same here, it throws me Cannot read property 'originalUrl' of undefined presumably coming from https://github.com/angular/universal/blob/master/modules/express-engine/src/main.ts#L87 judging by stacktrace, index.html works fine for sure

VagrantAI-c on Apr 20, 2018