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I have a UI-Router document set up to show the "pages" sections of a demo.

(function() { 'use strict'; angular.module('pb.ds.pages').config(function($stateProvider) { $stateProvider.state('pages', { abstract: true, url: '/pages', templateUrl: 'modules/pages/templates/pages.html', controller: 'PagesController as pages', data: { pageTitle: 'Pages', access: 'public', bodyClass: 'pages' } }) .state('pages.signin', { url: '/signin', templateURL: 'modules/pages/templates/signin.html', controller: 'SignInController as signin' }) .state('pages.forgotpassword', { url: '/forgotpassword', templateURL: 'modules/pages/templates/forgotpassword.html', controller: 'ForgotPasswordController as forgot' }) .state('pages.404', { url: '/404', templateURL: 'modules/pages/templates/404.html', controller: '404Controller' }); }); })();

The parent state, "pages" has the ui-view on it, but otherwise I don't need to "show" it. I am only interested in showing its children, such as pages.signin or pages.forgotpassword.

Typing in the url "/forgotpassword" bounces me back to my homepage, which is the "otherwise" state in my app.module.js 

// UI ROUTER CONFIG angular.module('app').config(function($stateProvider) { $stateProvider.state('otherwise', { url: '*path', template: '', controller: function($state) { $state.go('dashboard'); } }); });

No errors in console, and all the pages in question are linked in my index.html.

I'm sure I must have missed something obvious. Any clues?

UPDATE

If I enter /pages/forgotpassword it does go to the correct path but the view is not being populated by the template...

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There is a working plunker

We have to adjust state definition like this:

 $stateProvider.state('pages', { abstract: true, //url: '/pages', templateUrl: 'modules/pages/templates/pages.html', controller: 'PagesController as pages', data: { pageTitle: 'Pages', access: 'public', bodyClass: 'pages' } }) .state('pages.signin', { url: '/signin', // templateURL: 'modules/pages/templates/signin.html', templateUrl: 'modules/pages/templates/signin.html', controller: 'SignInController as signin' }) .state('pages.forgotpassword', { url: '/forgotpassword', //templateURL: 'modules/pages/templates/forgotpassword.html', templateUrl: 'modules/pages/templates/forgotpassword.html', controller: 'ForgotPasswordController as forgot' })

The most important is replacement of the templateURL with templateUrl. Javascript (and UI-Router) is case sensitive.

We also do not need define url for parent... it could be just child state definition

Finally, we must be sure, that our parent contains some target ui-view="" where child states will be placed. E.g. this is the plunker pages.html:

<div> <h3>pages</h3> <hr /> <div ui-view=""></div> </div>

These links will then work as expected:

//href <a href="#/signin"> <a href="#/forgotpassword"> //ui-sref <a ui-sref="pages.signin"> <a ui-sref="pages.forgotpassword">

We can leave the parent url:

 $stateProvider.state('pages', { abstract: true, url: '/pages', ...

but the href links for child states must contain the parent url as well:

<a href="#/pages/signin"> <a href="#/pages/forgotpassword">

Check it here in action

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Not including the URL for the parent state was the key (plus my capitalization typos -- good catch). I need to remember to check this. Thanks.
Great to see that sir! Enjoy mighty UI-Router ;)
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You need to prefix the state url with the url of the parent state. So the correct url that you need open with the browser should be: #/pages/forgotpassword

Check the doc URL Routing for Nested States

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I tried that, which doesn't bounce me (looks like it works) but the view is empty.
Could you show the snippet of ui-view of the page.html? The templateUrl in your states are correct?

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