Authentication and Routing with Express/Passport, AngularJS and ensureLoggedIn not working on "/" url

This is the code I use for handling authentication. It is a hack but I didn't find a better way when I needed to code it. Also the routes defined in the system varied user to user so I couldn't define them in the normal config stage. This may help with your issue though.

 $routeProvider    .when("/login", { templateUrl: "/view/account/login.html", controller: Login })    .when("/forgottenpassword", { templateUrl: "/view/account/forgottenpassword.html", controller: ForgottenPassword })    .otherwise({ redirectTo: "login" });

This basically only allows access to 2 views. Once someone authenticates successfully I rebuild the routing table with the new valid views. Any invalid navigation goes to the login view.

I do this through a hack though so it might not be the best implementation angularjs wise. I do this by keeping a reference to $routeProvider on the window object then use $routeProvider as normal when you have a successful logon.

The original $routeProvider provided in angular also needs a public method to clear the existing routes before adding new ones.

After

  var routes = {};

Add

  this.ClearRoutes = function ()  {      routes = {};  }

Example usage after successful logon

$routeProvider.ClearRoutes();$routeProvider    .when("/home", { templateUrl: "/view/home.html", controller: Home })    .when("/logoff", { templateUrl: "/view/account/logoff.html", controller: Logoff })    .otherwise({ redirectTo: "home" });