# How to make Angular CLI built app work from a subfolder
Angular CLI, along with many boilerplate generating tools for other frameworks, insists on outputting the built code in a way that will work only on the top-level domain. I can't understand the reason for this, and definitively is not working well with quick&drity example apps you would like to show anywhere easily.
In this article, I'll show you how to make angular build code in a way that you can just drop on any level of subfolders & it will work.
# The problem
After generating your application with:
```sh
$ npx -p @angular/cli ng new my-app
```
when you build your app with:
```sh
$ npm run build
```
you will get the `dist/my-app/index.html` file with:
```
MyApp
```
Although `src="runtime...` looks OK, and it seems it should be working in the browser, when we visit `localhost/my-app/dist/my-app`, we see nothing else but a white screen. That's because there is:
```html
```
Which sets the context for all location references to the absolute location on our current domain. If you change it manually to ``, all should work fine - now the only thing is to set it in a way that will not require manual tweaks after every build.
# The solution
There are 2 possible solutions - use the CLI parameter, or set the value in the `angular.json` file.
## CLI parameter
`angular build` accepts `--base-href` param that allows us to override this value. Adding it manually every time would be a lot of a hassle, so the best to set it in the `package.json`:
```JSON
{
...
"scripts": {
...
"build": "ng build --base-href='./'",
...
}
...
```
Then, whenever we run `npm run build`, the value is set correctly.
## Angulars json configuration
If the CLI param feels a bit hacky to you, you can set the value in the `angular.json` config:
```JSON
{
...
"projects": {
"my-app": {
...
"architect": {
"build": {
...
"options": {
...
"baseHref": "./"
}
...
```
I cannot find it in the official documentation, but it's working & it's recognized by `angular.json` validation.
# Summary
In this article, we have seen how to set up Angular CLI generate app to work from a subfolder. With one or the other solution in place, your built app should look like:
