Apache web server doesn't allow me to refresh on /about but on localhost its working fine
Hey this is actually a pretty common thing.
What's happening is you need to get your apache server to ignore any nested paths and just send all requests /* to root instead. That way your front-end javascript can pick up the route on the client-side and display the correct view.
This is sometimes referred to as "HTML5 Mode" in different webservers.
In apache the way you do this is add a rule like the following:
RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}%{REQUEST_URI} -f [OR] RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}%{REQUEST_URI} -d RewriteRule ^ - [L] RewriteRule ^ /index.html [L]What this does is to tell Apache to serve any files that exist, but if they dont exist, just serve /index.html rather than a 404 not found.
In case of laravel, you need to render the same view where all the routes are written for react file. Laravel route is written as:
Route::get('{url}', function () { return view('welcome'); })->where(['url' => '.*']);
welcome blade file is:
<!doctype html> <html lang="{{ app()->getLocale() }}"> <head> <meta charset="utf-8"> <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge"> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"> <title>Laravel</title> <link href="{{asset('css/app.css')}}" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"> </head> <body> <div id="root"></div> <script src="{{asset('js/app.js')}}" ></script> </body> </html>app.js file for route
<Route> <Route name = "App" path="/" handler = {App}> <Route name="About" path="/about" handler = {About}/> <DefaultRoute name="Projects" handler = {Projects}/> </Route> so every time you refresh on your about route, it will show the welcome blade and its respective routes in app.js file