diff --git a/app/templates/skeleton/Gruntfile.js b/app/templates/skeleton/Gruntfile.js
index 8276ebd..7f51df3 100755
--- a/app/templates/skeleton/Gruntfile.js
+++ b/app/templates/skeleton/Gruntfile.js
@@ -40,7 +40,14 @@ module.exports = function (grunt) {
     connect: {
       main: {
         options: {
-          port: 9001
+          port: 9001,
+          middleware: function (connect) {
+            var modRewrite = require('connect-modrewrite');
+            return [
+              modRewrite(['^[^\\.]*$ /index.html [L]']),
+              connect.static('.')
+            ];
+          }
         }
       }
     },
@@ -164,7 +171,7 @@ module.exports = function (grunt) {
         }
       }
     },
-    //Imagemin has issues on Windows.  
+    //Imagemin has issues on Windows.
     //To enable imagemin:
     // - "npm install grunt-contrib-imagemin"
     // - Comment in this section
diff --git a/app/templates/skeleton/package.json b/app/templates/skeleton/package.json
index 37b98d9..bfe4797 100755
--- a/app/templates/skeleton/package.json
+++ b/app/templates/skeleton/package.json
@@ -2,12 +2,13 @@
   "name": "<%= _.camelize(appname) %>",
   "version": "0.0.0",
   "devDependencies": {
+    "connect-modrewrite": "~0.7.9",
     "grunt": "~0.4",
     "grunt-angular-templates": "~0.5",
     "grunt-browser-output": "0.1.0",
     "grunt-contrib-clean": "~0.5",
     "grunt-contrib-concat": "~0.3",
-    "grunt-contrib-connect": "~0.6",
+    "grunt-contrib-connect": "~0.8",
     "grunt-contrib-copy": "~0.5",
     "grunt-contrib-cssmin": "~0.7",
     "grunt-contrib-htmlmin": "~0.1",