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.

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Answer 1

I had this same problem and this solution worked for us..

Background:

We are hosting multiple apps on the same server. When we would refresh the server would not understand where to look for our index in the dist folder for that particular app. The above link will take you to what worked for us... Hope this helps, as we have spent quite a hours on figuring out a solution for our needs.

We are using:

package.json

"dependencies": {
"babel-polyfill": "^6.23.0",
"ejs": "^2.5.6",
"express": "^4.15.2",
"prop-types": "^15.5.6",
"react": "^15.5.4",
"react-dom": "^15.5.4",
"react-redux": "^5.0.4",
"react-router": "^3.0.2",
"react-router-redux": "^4.0.8",
"redux": "^3.6.0",
"redux-persist": "^4.6.0",
"redux-thunk": "^2.2.0",
"webpack": "^2.4.1"
}

my webpack.config.js

webpack.config.js

/* eslint-disable */
const path = require('path');
const webpack = require('webpack');
const HtmlWebpackPlugin = require('html-webpack-plugin');
const babelPolyfill = require('babel-polyfill');
const HTMLWebpackPluginConfig = new HtmlWebpackPlugin({
  template: __dirname + '/app/views/index.html',
  filename: 'index.html',
  inject: 'body'
});

module.exports = {
  entry: [
    'babel-polyfill', './app/index.js'
  ],
  output: {
    path: __dirname + '/dist/your_app_name_here',
    filename: 'index_bundle.js'
  },
  module: {
    rules: [{
      test: /\.js$/,
      loader: 'babel-loader',
      query : {
          presets : ["env", "react", "stage-1"]
      },
      exclude: /node_modules/
    }]
  },
  plugins: [HTMLWebpackPluginConfig]
}

my index.js

index.js

import React from 'react'
import ReactDOM from 'react-dom'
import Routes from './Routes'
import { Provider } from 'react-redux'
import { createHistory } from 'history'
import { useRouterHistory } from 'react-router'
import configureStore from './store/configureStore'
import { syncHistoryWithStore } from 'react-router-redux'
import { persistStore } from 'redux-persist'

const store = configureStore();

const browserHistory = useRouterHistory(createHistory) ({
  basename: '/your_app_name_here'
})
const history = syncHistoryWithStore(browserHistory, store)

persistStore(store, {blacklist: ['routing']}, () => {
  console.log('rehydration complete')
})
// persistStore(store).purge()


ReactDOM.render(
    
      

        
      
    ,
  document.getElementById('mount')
)

my app.js

var express = require('express');
var app = express();

app.use(express.static(__dirname + '/dist'));
// app.use(express.static(__dirname + '/app/assets'));
app.set('views', __dirname + '/dist/your_app_name_here');
app.engine('html', require('ejs').renderFile);
app.set('view engine', 'html');

app.get('/*', function (req, res) {
    res.render('index');
});

app.listen(8081, function () {
  console.log('MD listening on port 8081!');
});