I'm using github pages to deploy my personal website. My personal website and many of the other pages being hosted through github use React and React router.
As a result, I've employed Rafrex' SPA in order to prevent a 404 page getting served on refresh. Unfortunately, other projects hosted on github pages get "overwritten" by rafrex since they're not technically an existing route on my website. E.G refreshing on personalwebsite.com/validpage redirects appropriately to that existing page, but personalwebsite.com/othergithubproject gets snatched by rafrex and just displays whatever would normally get displayed on "/". This can be fixed by clearing out the cache on the page and then refreshing but obviously is not a good solution for visitors.
Have I missed something obvious when using Rafrex-SPA? Is this just a flaw in Rafrex-SPA? Is there a good workaround? Thank you!
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I have a build a React website and hosted in Hosting er. When i go to website and open another page and refresh, it's showing "Oops, looks like the page is lost." How i will resolve this bug? Is this problem with routing in React?
I need fully functional website like when i run in my system. But when hosted the pages are not working properly.
The reason the website shows 404 is because in react all routes go to the index.html to render the components. But in a standard hosting it will look for a HTML file in the route's directory which doesn't exist in a React Application. Hence we configure our hosting service to redirect all request to the root index.html.
In your case since you have hosted on Hostinger you may use the follwoing guidelines to make updates to your .htaccess.
Official Guidelines from Hostinger:
https://www.hostinger.in/tutorials/what-is-react#How_to_Deploy_a_React_Application_on_Hostinger
I made a react js website and published it on my github page. I named the project sleepypower.github.io so it didn't have any additional info and be easier to write.
However, when I go to a page let's say sleepypower.github.io/page, and reload it, it says page not found
Looks like the Github pages server intercepts the URL pathname first and responds with 404. So you might have to go extra steps to make react routing work with Github pages. I suggest following this guide: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/deploy-a-react-app-to-github-pages/
I just deployed my create-react-app via github pages. The site (jasonclerk.com) loads fine when clicking through to the root domain or entering the root domain in URL address bar of browser. However if deep-linking to a directory level page (jasonclerk.com/about) or entering that directory level page in URL address bar, I'm hitting 404 error. If I use the navigation within the site, I can go to the other pages without any issue.
I did use routes (react-router-dom) in my top level component, all have been working fine in local test environment. Also, previously deployed the site via heroku and didn't have any issue with deeplinks. Deployed on ghpages now so I could add custom domain.
Any advice to fix the issue on loading directory level pages directly?
react-router is a good example of client-side routing. You are facing this issue because the GitHub Page server has no idea you are building a client-side routing application. From the server's point of view, it does not recognize /about. There are 2 ways to solve your issue.
Use HashRouter instead of BrowserRouter, the URL will end up not as pretty but since it uses hashes, you don't have to do anything special on the server-side.
Follow this guide here to implement a "hacky" solution for Github Pages. Basically, you add a script in the 404.html (i.e. the page GitHub will display when it receives 404 error), which will redirect all request to your index.html.
When I try to see the cached version of my site on google cache
it always renders 404 page
I think this is because react router does not understand the route because it is running on a different domain because of google cache.
https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:5Q4gZU5NIwJ:https://www.sitename.com/+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=in
For posterity, this appears to be at least one of the common issues folks have encountered: https://github.com/ReactTraining/react-router/issues/5801
So I'm trying to deploy my first React application live. It is my portfolio webiste. Anyways, everything is working fine except for my routes. Locally, Everything works fine. However, now that I've deployed the website my routes do not work. When you click on any of the links it says the url cannot be found on the server, and it throws a 404 error.
The application is hosted by namecheap, and they said they cannot see anything wrong from their end. I just have no idea what could be wrong then as it all works find locally.
My website can be found at andrewschubert.website and the github repo for this can be found at https://github.com/theschubinator/my-portfolio If anyone has any ideas what I'm doing wrong I would greatly appreciate it!
By the way, it is a React Application. There is no database or API, just strictly front-end. The only links that are actually working are the ones that redirect you to an area outside of my application...like my blog on medium.
I can see that you've been using react-router lib for your routing. It is based on HTML5 history API, which is not supported by every host out there. If you are talking about your portfolio website and it's not so much of and issue where do you deploy it, try out some different hosts (e.g. surge is great for deploying static sites: https://surge.sh/).
React applications are single page. Routing in React means changing the components displayed when user requests a different url. You will need an api.
On every client request you return the same "index.html" which will display only one component. By creating a controller in your server you can map "/contact" to "index.html#contact" and your hashrouter can return the ContactUs component.