diff --git a/packages/angular_devkit/build_angular/src/builders/dev-server/tests/options/serve-path_spec.ts b/packages/angular_devkit/build_angular/src/builders/dev-server/tests/options/serve-path_spec.ts
index c80aca3670c1..734637c5aead 100644
--- a/packages/angular_devkit/build_angular/src/builders/dev-server/tests/options/serve-path_spec.ts
+++ b/packages/angular_devkit/build_angular/src/builders/dev-server/tests/options/serve-path_spec.ts
@@ -18,7 +18,9 @@ describeServeBuilder(
   (harness, setupTarget, isViteRun) => {
     describe('option: "servePath"', () => {
       beforeEach(async () => {
-        setupTarget(harness);
+        setupTarget(harness, {
+          assets: ['src/assets'],
+        });
 
         // Application code is not needed for these tests
         await harness.writeFile('src/main.ts', 'console.log("foo");');
@@ -96,6 +98,23 @@ describeServeBuilder(
         expect(result?.success).toBeTrue();
         expect(await response?.text()).toContain('<title>');
       });
+
+      it('serves assets at specified path when option is used', async () => {
+        await harness.writeFile('src/assets/test.txt', 'hello world!');
+
+        harness.useTarget('serve', {
+          ...BASE_OPTIONS,
+          servePath: 'test',
+        });
+
+        const { result, response } = await executeOnceAndFetch(harness, '/test/assets/test.txt', {
+          // fallback processing requires an accept header
+          request: { headers: { accept: 'text/html' } },
+        });
+
+        expect(result?.success).toBeTrue();
+        expect(await response?.text()).toContain('hello world');
+      });
     });
   },
 );
diff --git a/packages/angular_devkit/build_angular/src/builders/dev-server/vite-server.ts b/packages/angular_devkit/build_angular/src/builders/dev-server/vite-server.ts
index 13f92d427110..055ccdfbcecb 100644
--- a/packages/angular_devkit/build_angular/src/builders/dev-server/vite-server.ts
+++ b/packages/angular_devkit/build_angular/src/builders/dev-server/vite-server.ts
@@ -448,6 +448,7 @@ export async function setupServer(
     css: {
       devSourcemap: true,
     },
+    // Vite will normalize the `base` option by adding a leading and trailing forward slash.
     base: serverOptions.servePath,
     resolve: {
       mainFields: ['es2020', 'browser', 'module', 'main'],
@@ -583,7 +584,7 @@ export async function setupServer(
 
             // Parse the incoming request.
             // The base of the URL is unused but required to parse the URL.
-            const pathname = pathnameWithoutServePath(req.url, serverOptions);
+            const pathname = pathnameWithoutBasePath(req.url, server.config.base);
             const extension = extname(pathname);
 
             // Rewrite all build assets to a vite raw fs URL
@@ -591,7 +592,7 @@ export async function setupServer(
             if (assetSourcePath !== undefined) {
               // The encoding needs to match what happens in the vite static middleware.
               // ref: https://github.com/vitejs/vite/blob/d4f13bd81468961c8c926438e815ab6b1c82735e/packages/vite/src/node/server/middlewares/static.ts#L163
-              req.url = `/@fs/${encodeURI(assetSourcePath)}`;
+              req.url = `${server.config.base}@fs/${encodeURI(assetSourcePath)}`;
               next();
 
               return;
@@ -689,7 +690,7 @@ export async function setupServer(
 
               // Parse the incoming request.
               // The base of the URL is unused but required to parse the URL.
-              const pathname = pathnameWithoutServePath(req.url, serverOptions);
+              const pathname = pathnameWithoutBasePath(req.url, server.config.base);
 
               if (pathname === '/' || pathname === `/index.html`) {
                 const rawHtml = outputFiles.get('/index.html')?.contents;
@@ -801,17 +802,12 @@ async function loadViteClientCode(file: string) {
   return contents;
 }
 
-function pathnameWithoutServePath(url: string, serverOptions: NormalizedDevServerOptions): string {
+function pathnameWithoutBasePath(url: string, basePath: string): string {
   const parsedUrl = new URL(url, 'http://localhost');
-  let pathname = decodeURIComponent(parsedUrl.pathname);
-  if (serverOptions.servePath && pathname.startsWith(serverOptions.servePath)) {
-    pathname = pathname.slice(serverOptions.servePath.length);
-    if (pathname[0] !== '/') {
-      pathname = '/' + pathname;
-    }
-  }
+  const pathname = decodeURIComponent(parsedUrl.pathname);
 
-  return pathname;
+  // slice(basePath.length - 1) to retain the trailing slash
+  return pathname.startsWith(basePath) ? pathname.slice(basePath.length - 1) : pathname;
 }
 
 type ViteEsBuildPlugin = NonNullable<