react routing is able to handle different url path but tomcat returns 404 not available resources

Question

I am new in reactjs and I have a little project in reactjs to play with and learn it. I need to have to type of headers which will be shown based o

Answer 1

My solution is like a workaround for JSP engines (e.g. Tomcat), but it works great with minimal code.

I created an "index.jsp" parallel to "index.html" (in the content root folder) with following code:

index.jsp

<%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=UTF-8"
pageEncoding="UTF-8"%>
<%@include file="index.html"%>

I configured all urls to redirect to this JSP in web.xml

web.xml

    index
    index.jsp


    index
    /*

Now any URL requested to Tomcat will internally get redirected to index.jsp that is effectively index.html. Once react-router loads in browser, it takes care of rendering the right component and subsequent requests.