angular html5mode in tomcat apache 8.5.4 gives 404 on page refresh

Question

I m creating war file using gulp-war and deploy it into tomcat apache server 8.5.4 on my system

it first runs on localhost:8080/projectName/

but

Answer 1

I found the solution with help of this article

1. add in /opt/tomcat/conf/context.xml

2. add rewite.config file in specific project WEB-INF folder with below content such as on /opt/tomcat/webapps/projectName/WEB-INF/rewrite.config

   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^.*\.(bmp|css|gif|htc|html?|ico|jpe?g|js|pdf|png|swf|txt|xml|svg|eot|woff|woff2|ttf|map)$
   RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.html [L]
   

hope it helps someone