Cannot use url to navigate in react through nginx

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I am serving my static file using nginx(react frontend). I have used different urls like /login /user /home for each page.

My nginx doesn't redirect these to my index.html file.

I made some changes and now I cannot get my main page either. It returns cannot get /.

This is my nginx.conf file. I am running it on windows. My index.html is inside the build folder. How do I get my nginx to use Router and Link in reactjs, so that I can get the page by referring to the link or through navigation bar?

worker_processes  5;

events {
    worker_connections  1024;
}


http {
    include       mime.types;
    default_type  application/octet-stream;

    sendfile        on;
    keepalive_timeout  65;


    server {
        listen   80;
        server_name  ip;

        location / {
            root   /Users/username/projectfolder/build;    
            index  index.html index.htm;
            try_files $uri $uri/ index.html;
            proxy_pass http://ipaddress:portnumber;
            proxy_http_version 1.1;
            proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
            proxy_set_header Connection 'upgrade';
            proxy_set_header Host $host;
            proxy_cache_bypass $http_upgrade;
         }
     }
 }

UPDATE:

I have tried the following configuration

server {
        listen some_port;
        server_name some_ip;
        root C:\\nginx-1.17.1\\build\\;
        index  index.html index.htm;
        location /test/ {   
            alias C:\\nginx-1.17.1\\build\\;
            index  index.html index.htm;
            try_files $uri \\index.html;
            #internal;

            #return index;
        }
        location = /index.html {
        # no try_files here
        return 502;
    }
        location / {  
            #root   C:\\Users\\DEV-a0a02yc\\insurance_automation\\build;
            try_files $uri $uri\ \index.html?$args;
            #try_files $uri/ index.html;
            proxy_pass http://some_ip:some_port;
            proxy_http_version 1.1;
            proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
            proxy_set_header Connection 'upgrade';
            proxy_set_header Host $host;
            proxy_cache_bypass $http_upgrade;
        }
    }

In the /test/ url I am getting a blank page and a rewrite/internal redirection error saying :

2019/07/01 09:53:22 [error] 17820#18008: *1 rewrite or internal redirection cycle while internally redirecting to "/favicon.ico\ \index.html\ \index.html\ \index.html\ \index.html\ \index.html\ \index.html\ \index.html\ \index.html\ \index.html\ \index.html\ \index.html"

This is my network tab: enter image description here

How do I serve my index.html file here to handle redirection when entering this url?

nginx-location nginx-config reactjs nginx
1 Answers

What are the proxy lines for in your configuration?

Shouldn't you either serve from html files or proxy pass to a different address?

I would suggest trying to remove the proxy lines from the configuration.

Also on an unrelated note the proxy_pass line is invalid. The server address "ipaddress" is a far stretch (though not impossible with dns) and the port "portnumber" is definitely invalid.

So the minimum required configuration is the following:

location / {
    root /folder/subfolder/build;
    try_files $uri /index.html;
}

root defines your react build folder location and try_files defines that nginx should look if the requested file exists, if not it serves the index.html.

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