Http-server: Is there a way to redirect all requests to index.html to support client side routing?

[dumptyd]

[dumptyd]

The -P flag, yes.

[dumptyd]

But the server crashes when if I try to access 127.0.0.1/something (when something is handled from client side)

stack trace:

http-server -P /
Starting up http-server, serving ./
Available on:
  http://127.0.0.1:8080
  http://192.168.1.115:8080
Unhandled requests will be served from: /
Hit CTRL-C to stop the server
[Sat May 13 2017] "GET /boo" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:54.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/54.0"
/usr/lib/node_modules/http-server/node_modules/requires-port/index.js:13
  protocol = protocol.split(':')[0];
                     ^

TypeError: Cannot read property 'split' of null
    at required (/usr/lib/node_modules/http-server/node_modules/requires-port/index.js:13:22)
    at Object.common.setupOutgoing (/usr/lib/node_modules/http-server/node_modules/http-proxy/lib/http-proxy/common.js:102:7)
    at Array.stream (/usr/lib/node_modules/http-server/node_modules/http-proxy/lib/http-proxy/passes/web-incoming.js:120:14)
    at ProxyServer.<anonymous> (/usr/lib/node_modules/http-server/node_modules/http-proxy/lib/http-proxy/index.js:80:21)
    at Array.<anonymous> (/usr/lib/node_modules/http-server/lib/http-server.js:109:13)
    at dispatch (/usr/lib/node_modules/http-server/node_modules/union/lib/routing-stream.js:119:21)
    at g (events.js:292:16)
    at emitNone (events.js:86:13)
    at emit (events.js:185:7)
    at /usr/lib/node_modules/http-server/node_modules/union/lib/routing-stream.js:114:23

[BigBlueHat]

@dumptyd as you've found, -P is not what you want. That's for proxying other endpoints and / isn't one.

Would you mind giving PR #369 a try for your use case and reporting thoughts over there?

Thanks!
🎩

[BigBlueHat]

We've added the recommendation to use 404.html as the fallback URL. It prevents over catching (at multiple URLs) of a single "fallback" response, still provides the option to later create static (or server-side rendered) resources at each URL (which is far better for production environments), and still plays nice with pushState() usage.