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This week I had to help a friend with his new small ReacJS website running on Apache.<\/p>\n

His problem was that URIs which does not exist the Apache was returning as 404 pages, he needed a common rule used by a lot of PHP frameworks, Rewrite all URIs which are not Files or Directories to \/index.html<\/strong><\/p>\n

Example URL www.example.com\/myprofile<\/code> to actually load www.example.com\/index.html<\/code> and let the ReactJS route do his work and show what it needs.<\/p>\n

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In that case, you might write something like this:<\/p>\n

RewriteEngine on\n\nRewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f\nRewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d\nRewriteRule ^ index.html [L]\n<\/code><\/pre>\n
What is this doing, it will check the URI either exists as a file or is a directory, if it is NOT, it will call index.html<\/strong>. The [L] means that this will be the LAST match and will stop there, will not continue if we have other rules below that.<\/p>\n
This is code is ok, not so simple and you can mess up the conditions, for example, I have seen a lot of [OR] next to RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f [OR]<\/code> which will not work in our case above.<\/p>\n
If you need this simple Rewrite rule, you might use Apache command available after 2.2.16 version<\/strong><\/p>\n
FallbackResource \/index.html\n<\/code><\/pre>\n
This will do the same as the above 4 lines if the URI is not found on the server, ie. not a File or a Dir, it will load to \/index.html<\/strong><\/p>\n
This command is not part of modrewrite<\/em><\/strong>, but of mod<\/strong><\/em>dir<\/strong>, if you don’t have it enabled, run sudo a2enmod dir<\/code> and restart the Apache.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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