Reloading the page gives wrong GET request with AngularJS HTML5 mode

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I want to enable HTML5 mode for my app. I have put the following code for the configuration, as shown here:

return app.config(['$routeProvider','$locationProvider', function($routeProvider,$locationProvider) {

    $locationProvider.html5Mode(true);
    $locationProvider.hashPrefix = '!';

    $routeProvider.when("https://stackoverflow.com/", {
        templateUrl: '/views/index.html',
        controller: 'indexCtrl'
    });
    $routeProvider.when('/about',{
        templateUrl: '/views/about.html',
        controller: 'AboutCtrl'
    });

As you can see, I used the $locationProvider.html5mode and I changed all my links at the ng-href to exclude the /#/.

The Problem

At the moment, I can go to localhost:9000/ and see the index page and navigate to the other pages like localhost:9000/about.

However, the problem occurs when I refresh the localhost:9000/about page. I get the following output: Cannot GET /about

If I look at the network calls:

Request URL:localhost:9000/about
Request Method:GET

While if I first go to localhost:9000/ and then click on a button that navigates to /about I get:

Request URL:http://localhost:9000/views/about.html

Which renders the page perfectly.

How can I enable angular to get the correct page when I refresh?

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