How to setup apache server for React route?
Change the VirtualHost configuration (typically found in /etc/httpd/conf.d\vhosts.conf) by adding the following Rewrite* lines:
<VirtualHost *:8080> ServerName example.com DocumentRoot /var/www/httpd/example.com <Directory "/var/www/httpd/example.com"> ... RewriteEngine on # Don't rewrite files or directories RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d RewriteRule ^ - [L] # Rewrite everything else to index.html to allow html5 state links RewriteRule ^ index.html [L] </Directory></VirtualHost>This tells Apache to serve any files that exist, but if they don't exist, just serve /index.html rather than a 404: not found.
Apache Reference: Configuring Apache Virtual Hosts
react-routerHistory Reference: Configuring Your Server
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The above solution works for Ubuntu as well but I have struggled a bit with it so here are the steps necessary to make it work.
Location of the file where you need to place the above mentioned configuration is under
/etc/apache2/sites-enabled
default is
/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default.conf
Then you need to make sure that RewriteEngine is running (otherwise you will get an error when restarting Apache server).
sudo a2enmod rewrite
Finally, restart Apache server
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
Now, it should work.
When you are using default configuration (root of the website is under /var/www/html), then all you need to do is to place
<Directory "/var/www/html"> RewriteEngine on # Don't rewrite files or directories RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d RewriteRule ^ - [L] # Rewrite everything else to index.html to allow html5 state links RewriteRule ^ index.html [L]</Directory>to the above mentioned file under <VirtualHost ...>