Question
enable paths without trailing slash for static sites on app platform
- Posted on March 14, 2023
- DigitalOcean App Platform
Asked by Martin
I’m trying to deploy a static site built with parcel.js that has a bunch of subpages with my dist folder looking like this:
📄 index.html
📁 about
📄 index.html
Now example.com/about/ works but example.com/about (without trailing slash) returns a 404.
Is there any way to make paths without trailing slashes work in static sites since I have to support an existing url structure?
Vercel for example has configuration options for these settings.
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Actually this is the default for a static website. So Digital Ocean seems in not static site compliant. Please solve this!
Hey @martin,
I don’t think that this is possible out of the box with static HTML sites unless you are using a library like React for example.
The best thing to do to get your voice heard regarding this would be to head over to our Product Ideas board and post a new idea, including as much information as possible for what you’d like to see implemented.
Hope that helps!
- Bobby.