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Why am I receiving a 404 upon page refresh for my static application? Did I miss something in the tutorial about setting up Express?

Posted on March 25, 2020

OS: Ubuntu 18.04 Web Server: Nginx Application Type: Static React Application with Node running.

Repro Steps

  1. Go to https://kevinleroy.me (Access any page from there just fine).
  2. Go to https://kevinleroy.me/about (You get a 404)


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Looks like it was a mistake on my part. I didn’t have a / in front of my index.html filename in my sites-available server block. You can consider this closed.

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