I have succesfully set up a static website on Azure Blob storage using the $web
container as advised within the Microsoft documentation. In addition, I have defined index.html
for both the 'Index Document Name' and the 'Error Document Name'. This is because I want my JavaScript application to handle the 404
responses.
However, when looking at the network tab in Chrome, I can see that a 404
is being thrown for the URL that I am requesting, despite the page actually working.
My theory is as follows:
404
and rewrites the url to the 'Error Document Name' i.e. index.html
in my case (hence my pages still work)The problem I have is that my URLs are clean urls, for example:
/activities/some-slug
is never going to exist as a file, this just tells my JavaScript application where to route the request i.e. what view to load.
Just to be clear, the page does work because it is still routing 404
errors to index.html
.
How can I tell Azure blob to just route absolutely everything to index.html
and let my app throw the 404
if necessary?
We do have a Premium Verizon CDN set up already because I was not originally aware of the static website option on Azure Blob. If the CDN is the best route, please can you provide instructions on how to configure the CDN to provide what I am looking for?
I have read numerous articles (specifically the comments in this one) and I believe that there may be various solutions i.e. Azure Functions, Proxy, CDN etc. That said, none provide clear instructions of what to actually do with those specific services.
I usually work on AWS so am not familiar with all of the Azure services and available configurations.
I think I found a solution
Condition: URL file extension
a. Operator: Less than
b. Extension: 1
c. Case transform: No transform
[This basically means that the URL requested has no file (extension) but is a route of the app which will be taken care of by the app routing]
Action: URL rewrite
a. Source pattern: /
b. Destination: /index.html
c. Preserve unmatched path: No
.