SPA routing with Nginx

nginx-spa-routing.md

SPA routing with Nginx

To allow Nginx to route non-existing path back to index.html, do:

server {
      listen 80;
      listen [::]:80;
      server_name localhost;

      location / {
            root /usr/share/nginx/html;
            index index.html;
            try_files $uri $uri/ /index.html =404;
      }
}

The try_files directive tries the $uri first, then $uri/, then /index.html which should exist. In case all fails, it will use =404 to serve the default 404 page.