Using the index.html still as basic website even with something after the slash

[J_OTT]

Hi, I want to create different id´s for the website and put them behind the slash eg: example.glitch.me/this-is-the-id . If I put something behind the slash, it tells me the page cannot be found (which is obvious) but is there a way to still run the index.html with anything behind the slash?

Edit: use example.glitch.me/#/this-is-the-id to link it back to the original index.html

[aTylerRobertson]

There’s probably a few ways to do this, but the first thing that comes to mind for me (if you’re not opposed to a bit of JavaScript) is using a Node package like Express or Fastify that allows for routing. The Glitch “Hello Node” starter project has a good example of this — basically you can write functions that define a bunch of IDs like your “/this-is-the-id” example, or even wildcards (I like Fastify’s documentation about this), and tell the page to return various outputs using a templating engine like Handlebars or Pug. That way you can have one index file, but it achieves lots of different outcomes based on what the viewer’s entered in the URL.

This project is a little old now, but may help provide an example of all that, if it helps to poke around existing code: http://oregano-blog.glitch.me/

[wh0]

allegedly glitch will serve your site that way if it’s a generated static site. back when it was a requested feature:

Redirect non-existing routes to index.html for Generated Static Sites

Currently if a glitch project is a Generated Static Site it can not use a standard browser history based routeing scheme, it must use a hash based url scheme (e.g. example.com/#/about). If you want to just a standard scheme (like example.com/about) you’re out of luck. Once your project has gone to sleep and glitch serves the statically compiled site, if you try to load a route that doesn’t map to an actual file then it will just throw a 404. Which is frustrating since most modern static sites do…

there are even complaints about this behavior:

Disable Generated Site redirect

So I have noticed that glitch redirects the generated static site to root when the file for the path doesn’t exist, but I don’t want this behavior, I want to display a 404 page when the url doesn’t exist, and it is being an issue, since the path I have doesn’t correspond to an actual file, since I use react-router. Is there a way to disable the redirect?

edit: seems like Glitch redirects from the path to / rather than serving index.html at the path, which is the worst of both worlds. so disregard this

[_tr]

Yes, node.js with express and a wildcard would probabily be the best solution