I am currently trying to deploy the default react web app to Azure and I am encountering an issue where though I deploy the contents of my build folder to the azure hosted /site/wwwroot folder I end up on the following page when going to my hosted address: https://[project_name].azurewebsites.net/
Landing Page :
I intend to deploy the default create-react-app react application so that I may have the process down for when I deploy my real site.
The process I have followed is pretty much exactly what is mentioned in this article https://medium.com/#to_pe/deploying-create-react-app-on-microsoft-azure-c0f6686a4321
Create the default React App with create-react-app
Run "npm run build" to get the build folder
Go into the Azure React Portal and create a new Web App ***
FTP / Git deploy the contents of the local build folder into the Azure website's /site/wwwroot/ folder
For overkill I added the below web.config file to handle future routes, but have also tried without this step
In the end my Azure site's contents look like this
Folder contents :
At this point when I try to access the Azure site I get the "Hey, Node developers!" page which implies my code is not deployed. Any thoughts as to why this might be the case?
*** I have a hunch that during the configuring of the Azure Web Api something is not set up correctly perhaps because I select Node 10.14 as my Runtime stack simply because that is the version of Node that I have installed and am using with my local React app.
Thank you folks for your time.
Another approach is to configure Azure Linux Web App Service to run a startup command to serve your React app in "Settings > General settings > Startup Command":
pm2 serve /home/site/wwwroot/ --no-daemon
Remember to change the path to your build path (The path to your index.html file).
If you use react-router and wants to make any direct access on custom routes be handled by index.html you need to add --spa option on the same command.
pm2 serve /home/site/wwwroot/ --no-daemon --spa
Using --spa option pm2 will automatically redirect all queries to the index.html and then react router will do its magic.
You can find more information about it in pm2 documentation: https://pm2.keymetrics.io/docs/usage/pm2-doc-single-page/#serving-spa-redirect-all-to-indexhtml
I've coped with the same problem recently: React router direct links not working on Azure Web App Linux
You have created a Linux App Service - your web.config won't work because there is no IIS.
If you don't select node as the runtime stack, your app will work for the most part because it serves the files like a static web host. However I would suggest to keep the runtime stack as node and add the following file to your deployment in the wwwroot folder:
ecosystem.config.js
module.exports = {
apps: [
{
script: "npx serve -s"
}
]
};
https://burkeknowswords.com/this-is-how-to-easily-deploy-a-static-site-to-azure-96c77f0301ff
There's an extremely simple way to overcome this problem, and although it is not perfect, it works both on AWS, Microsoft Azure, and probably any other hosting:
Just point the error document to: index.html
I found it out here:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/52343542/3231884
Disclaimer: This solution is not perfect and impacts SEO. Google doesn't rank well sites that throw 404s.
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Today i've deployed my client react app to Azure App Service. The problem is, that instead of displaying site im interested in, it returns structure of wwwroot. Even if I change directory to /src/App.js it return code of the App. What is the problem?
When you run a node application on Windows Azure Web Apps, IIS is used as the webserver together with iisnode and most likely some configuration is wrong so IIS doesn't know what to start. I'd suggest to let Azure handle the creation of the web.config and you don't touch it unless you know what you're doing:
Create a file .deployment with the following content
[config]
SCM_DO_BUILD_DURING_DEPLOYMENT = true
Put the .deployment file as well as the content of your React app (don't include web.config, you also don't have to include the node_modules folder, Azure will handle this as SCM_DO_BUILD_DURING_DEPLOYMENT is set to true) into an upload.zip file.
Delete the content of /wwwroot in Azure
Run az webapp deployment source config-zip -g <ResourceGroupName> -n <AppServiceName> --src upload.zip
A new web.config should get created which should contain a handler for server.js which will be the file to be served by Node.js.
This is solved. Thanks to #azium
The only thing i needed to do is run
npm run build
in local before deployment
I have been trying to run my react application on a subdirectory .
I am using a load balancer (ALB) to and redirecting my application on "directory" from "https://mydomain/directory".
But static file of the build was not being found by my application
added direcctory on package.json. "homepage": "/directory"
added basename on react-router-dom
in my networks index.html is looking for ".#####/directory/static/js" and css in the same way
i am only able to run my react build by redirecting static request to my react build, but this is not the good solution because i want to run 3 applications on my ALB and this will cause me change my assets folder name manually in the build, obviously don't want to do that.
I have been applying multiple solutions but couldn't find a proper solution please someone help in this.😑
ALB doesn't do redirects, and it doesn't do any sort of request path rewriting, it simply forwards the request to the target. You need to setup your server so it is actually serving the website from that folder, in other words change your assets folder name in the build.
If you don't want to do that, you would need to look at other AWS solutions like CloudFront which can proxy the request to a different path on the origin server.
I had a scenario of publishing react app with nginx inside docker with ci/cd. It took me setup a separate express server to serve app files and resolved the issue. Here is the repository synopsis of server.js that might help:
https://github.com/mkhizerali/store-pwa/blob/master/express/index.js
I've developed an PoC about PWA (Progressive Web Apps) using ReactJs to show how to use camera, geolocation, microphone, light sensors and etc from Browser API.
I've created a route for each feature in this web app and everything works fine in localhost. But when I deploy the npm build version of my react app on Azure Wep App Linux service it don't work properly. I can access the main page (index.html) and from there I can navigate to any other page, but when I try access any route direct form its url I receive an 404 error. Except from index page all urls don't work when refreshing or writing manually.
Ex:
https://pwa.mypoc.dev/ -- Works fine
https://pwa.mypoc.dev/lights -- Do Not Work
I'v used this command on azure "Settings" > "General settings" > "Startup Command":
pm2 serve /home/site/wwwroot/build --no-daemon
I've found a question related to it but the answer did not help me, as I'm not using web.config because it is a Linux machine running Node 10 LTS: React App not starting in azure app service
After a little more research I found the problem. As Linux Azure Web Apps uses pm2 to serve a node app I found the answer looking into the official documentation.
PM2 is a daemon process manager that will help you manage and keep your application online. Getting started with PM2 is straightforward, it is offered as a simple and intuitive CLI, installable via NPM.
https://pm2.keymetrics.io/docs/usage/pm2-doc-single-page/#serving-spa-redirect-all-to-indexhtml
Just need to add the --spa option into the Startup Command on Azure Web Apps Linux General Settings:
pm2 serve /home/site/wwwroot/build --no-daemon --spa
Using --spa option pm2 will automatically redirect all queries to the index.html and then react router will do its magic.
I've managed to deploy a react app (create-react-app) to Bluemix using cloud foundry with a sataticfile, everything is working fine except form one thing: routing.
I'm using BrowserRouter to manage routing so when you write the url's path manually I get a 404 error. I know I have to configure the staticfile to use the index.html as default, the question is how to configure this file on bluemix.
My build configuration looks like this:
And my deploy:
For now I've solved it using HashRoute, but that hash is awful and really bad for SEO as I read somewhere here.
I solved it, just create a file called: Staticfile with pushstate: enabled and save it on the public folder. I was saving it on the src folder so, when the react-app was built the Staticfile wasn't on the root directory.
I am wondering if it is possible to deploy react.js web app that I've built to a share hosting site that does not have node.js installed?
I use webpack to build the application and it creates normal html, js, css file. I uploaded the static folder that includes all those html, js(bundle.js) and css files, but when I request the site, the server reply with 404 bundle.js not found response.
Use npm run build, you should get a folder with the index html file inside that will run your app. Try this with xampp first before you actually deploy to your server.
Here is everything step by step
npm run build
or
yarn run build
it will generate a build folder that looks like this:
Copy everything and move it to the htdocs in xampp or ftp upload the directory to the public_html file in your hosting
Yes you sure can put react on a shared hosting provider.
Seeing as you're getting a 404 error (not found), you are probably referencing your react file/bundle incorrectly. It might not even be named bundle.js if you're using a boilerplate to create your application.
Can you give more information? What does your index.html file look like? What does your directory structure look like? If you are able to post these files I can tell you what the issue is.
Update:
The answer below should be accepted. (Although this would assume that you have the ability to make a build which you have not verified or not.)
Make a build using the build command through whatever boilerplate you used. Deploy those files on your shared hosting server. Make sure that index.html is at the root of where your server is expecting the root to be and your app should be live.
For deploying a react app on a shared hosting you need to create a production build. Production build is a pack of all your react code and its dependencies.
in most shared hosting we put our site/app inside a public_html directory so if we hit www.yourdomain.com it serves the code from public_html directory.
so if your react app is ready to go, edit your package.json file add a new key value:
"homepage":"http://yourdomain.com"
then create a build using following command:
npm run build
after running the command you will see a new directory named build in your app root. It will contain js and css for the app and a index.html file. You need to upload all the content inside build directory to public_html directory, and that's all, go to your domain and your app will be working just fine.