How to setup apache server for React route?

Question

I have my react app running great on my local dev server but it did not work when I dump my production ready files straight into Apache\'s htdocs directory:

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Answer 1

Change the VirtualHost configuration (typically found in /etc/httpd/conf.d\vhosts.conf) by adding the following Rewrite* lines:

  ServerName example.com
  DocumentRoot /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]
  

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-router History Reference: Configuring Your Server

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