React-router urls don't work when refreshing or writing manually

Question

I\'m using React-router and it works fine while I\'m clicking on link buttons, but when I refresh my webpage it does not load what I want.

For instance, I am in

Answer 1

This can solve your problem

I also faced the same problem in the ReactJS application in Production mode. Here is the 2 solution to the problem.

1.Change the routing history to "hashHistory" instead of browserHistory in the place of

Now build the app using the command

sudo npm run build

Then place the build folder in your var/www/ folder, Now the application is working fine with the addition of # tag in each and every URL. like

localhost/#/home localhost/#/aboutus

Solution 2: Without # tag using browserHistory,

Set your history = {browserHistory} in your Router, Now build it using sudo npm run build.

You need to create the "conf" file to solve the 404 not found page, the conf file should be like this.

open your terminal type the below commands

cd /etc/apache2/sites-available ls nano sample.conf Add the below content in it.

    ServerAdmin admin@0.0.0.0
    ServerName 0.0.0.0
    ServerAlias 0.0.0.0
    DocumentRoot /var/www/html/

    ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
    CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
    
            Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
            AllowOverride all
            Require all granted
    

Now you need to enable the sample.conf file by using the following command

cd /etc/apache2/sites-available
sudo a2ensite sample.conf

then it will ask you to reload the apache server, using sudo service apache2 reload or restart

then open your localhost/build folder and add the .htaccess file with the content of below.

   RewriteEngine On
   RewriteBase /
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-l
   RewriteRule ^.*$ / [L,QSA]

Now the app is working normally.

Note: change 0.0.0.0 IP to your local IP address.

If any doubts regarding this feel free to raise a comment.

I hope it is helpful to others.