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

In my case I wanted a simple solution as with creating a customer error page. However that solution still sets a status code 404 which is not desired.

So I use a small jsp file which will set status code to 200 before outputting the SPA's index.html.

I hope this helps someone else looking for a simple solution without returning status 404.

web.xml

    404
    /spa.jsp

spa.jsp

<%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=UTF-8" pageEncoding="UTF-8"%><%
    response.setStatus(200);
%><%@include file="./dashboard/index.html"%>