silvenon
commented
8 years ago SPAs (Single Page Applications) that use HTML5 History won't work with a simple HTTP server after a refresh. I'm no server expert, but here's a quick explanation:
When you are at /, the server knows that it should load /index.html. But when you navigate to, say, /foo and refresh, the server will look for /foo/index.html and it won't find it, because the only HTML file you do have is /index.html, the views are generated dynamically.
You need to redirect all requests to /index.html, like this example does here. Then when you go to /foo, the server will load /index.html and by reading the URL it will figure out which view to load.
If you really want to use the simple HTTP server, you can always switch to createHashHistory.
ochowie
sators
When running the basic example it is not possible to refresh the page when not on the top level route. I get the following error:
Error response
Error code 404.
Message: File not found.
Error code explanation: 404 = Nothing matches the given URI.
This doesn't happen when the route is at '/'.
I am executing the basic example using python's SimpleHTTPServer.