Direct link to a study without going through Study List (deployed on IIS without server config changes)

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Hello,

We are deploying OHIF Viewer on an IIS server. The viewer works fine when we enter through the Study List and then select a study.

However, what we would like to achieve is to launch the viewer directly with a StudyInstanceUID, using a URL like:

https://<server>:<port>/viewer?StudyInstanceUIDs=1.2.3.4.5

When we try this URL directly in the browser, we get:

404 - File or directory not found.
The resource you are looking for might have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable.

I understand this is because IIS tries to resolve /viewer as a real folder, while OHIF internally expects the client-side router to handle it after loading index.html. Unfortunately, we cannot change IIS configuration (so we cannot add rewrite rules or configure fallback to index.html).

:point_right: My questions:

  • Is there a way to configure OHIF to support direct study URLs without server rewrite rules?
  • Can we use an alternative syntax like index.html#/viewer?... or index.html?mode=viewer&StudyInstanceUIDs=... to make this work?
  • Is there a recommended workaround for deployments where we cannot touch the web server configuration?

Any guidance would be very appreciated :pray:

Thanks a lot!