IIS Rewrite with angular app and application alas

here is the scenario. I have an angular app and a .net 8 web api hosting on IIS. the .net wep api is added to the site as a application with "dotnet" as the alias

I need domain.com/dotnet to pass through but everything else to get rewrite to ./index.html

when I go to domain.com/dotnet/someRequest the server just redirects to the angualr app instead of giving me the json data from the api.

this is my current IIS rewrite rule

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<configuration>
<system.webServer>
<rewrite>
<rules>
<rule name="Angular Routes" stopProcessing="true">
<match url=".*" />
<conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll" trackAllCaptures="false">
<add input="{QUERY_STRING}" pattern=".*/dotnet/*" negate="true" />
<add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsFile" negate="true" />
<add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsDirectory" negate="true" />
</conditions>
<action type="Rewrite" url="./index.html" />
</rule>
</rules>
</rewrite>
</system.webServer>
</configuration>


Ive also tried this

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<configuration>
<system.webServer>
<rewrite>
<rules>
<rule name="DOTNET" stopProcessing="true">
<match url=".*/dotnet/*" />
<conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll" trackAllCaptures="false">
<add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsFile" negate="true" />
<add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsDirectory" negate="true" />
</conditions>
<action type="Rewrite" url="UNENCODED_URL" appendQueryString="false" />
</rule>
<rule name="Angular Routes" stopProcessing="true">
<match url=".*" />
<conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll" trackAllCaptures="false">
<add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsFile" negate="true" />
<add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsDirectory" negate="true" />
</conditions>
<action type="Rewrite" url="./index.html" />
</rule>
</rules>
</rewrite>
</system.webServer>
</configuration>


if I remove all the rewrite rules then i can get to domain.com/dotnet/getRequest and it will return the json data and i can get to the angualar app by going to domain.com.

HOWEVER if I refresh the page and my url is like domain.com/homepage then IIS cant find the page.

my goal to pass all domain.com/dotnet/* request through and everything else to get rewrite to ./index.html to avoid the refresh issue.

Any help would be greatly apricated!!

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