Configuring the Base URL

Note: Spartacus 4.x is no longer maintained. Please upgrade to the latest version.

Note: Spartacus 4.x was tested with SAP Commerce Cloud versions 1905 to 2205. Spartacus 4.x has not been verified to work with (and is not guaranteed to work with) SAP Commerce Cloud 2211 or later releases.

You can configure the base URL with a special HTML meta tag, instead of hard coding it with provideConfig() in the Spartacus configuration. This allows you to deploy to different environments with only one compiled JavaScript application, because you only need to modify the meta tag of the index.html file for each environment.

The following example shows how the meta tag can be configured in the index.html file:

<meta name="occ-backend-base-url" content="https://my-custom-backend-url:8080" />

Note: The value of the backend.occ.baseUrl from the provideConfig() in app.module.ts takes precedence over the value from the meta tag, so if you want the base URL to be driven dynamically by the meta tag, do not define the baseUrl in the provideConfig().

Note: The content attribute of the meta tag is ignored in the following cases:

• When it is an empty string, such as in the following example:

  <meta name="occ-backend-base-url" content="" />
  

• When it contains a special placeholder, such as in the following example:

  <meta name="occ-backend-base-url" content="OCC_BACKEND_BASE_URL_VALUE" />