Deploying to production server problem

[ekaayakaa]

I am facing an issue when in production if the urls are entered directly in the browser address bar it returns a 404 error. This is working properly in development. I was using a simple express server for production.

var express = require('express'),
  app = express(),
  http = require('http'),
  httpServer = http.Server(app);

app.use(express.static(__dirname + '/build'));

app.get('/', function(req, res) {
  res.sendfile(__dirname + '/index.html');
});
app.listen(3001);

Then i found out that this is happening as the server is not configured to handle the push state.

Then i decided to use pushstate-server to serve the production build according to create-react-app guidelines. Can i use this server as the live server to handle approximately 40 000 unique visits per day.

Thanks and Br,

[gaearon]

Then i found out that this is happening as the server is not configured to handle the push state.

Yes, because you only serve index.html for /. If you want to serve it for all routes, use /* instead. Also I recommend using a static server like Nginx instead of Express for static files. This will scale much better.

Then i decided to use pushstate-server to serve the production build according to create-react-app guidelines.

We do not recommend using pushstate-server in production.
The build output specifically says "serve it locally":

You may also serve it locally with a static server:

Please only use pushstate-server for checking that builds work locally, not for production.

[jsk548]

Hi ,
i am also having same problem. i just want to know where to write that expessjs code in our project folder and in which file.