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Deploying to production server problem #830
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I am facing an issue when in production if the urls are entered directly in the browser address bar it returns a 404 error. This is working properly in development. I was using a simple express server for production.
var express = require('express'),
app = express(),
http = require('http'),
httpServer = http.Server(app);
app.use(express.static(__dirname + '/build'));
app.get('/', function(req, res) {
res.sendfile(__dirname + '/index.html');
});
app.listen(3001);
Then i found out that this is happening as the server is not configured to handle the push state.
Then i decided to use pushstate-server to serve the production build according to create-react-app guidelines. Can i use this server as the live server to handle approximately 40 000 unique visits per day.
Thanks and Br,
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gaearon commentedon Oct 3, 2016
Yes, because you only serve
index.htmlfor/. If you want to serve it for all routes, use/*instead. Also I recommend using a static server like Nginx instead of Express for static files. This will scale much better.We do not recommend using
pushstate-serverin production.The build output specifically says "serve it locally":
Please only use
pushstate-serverfor checking that builds work locally, not for production.jsk548 commentedon Jun 15, 2017
Hi ,
i am also having same problem. i just want to know where to write that expessjs code in our project folder and in which file.