Get and Post request 404 error

[coelmay]

@adamprinciotta

But if I copy and paste the exact URL back into the search bar it gives a 404 error saying the page doesn’t exist.

This is because you are running a React SPA. The solution to this issue is outlined in the following support guide as well as in this Netlify documentation and this Create React App documentation.

[Support Guide] Direct links to my single page app (SPA) don't work

Last reviewed by Netlify Support - August, 2023 If you’re building a Single Page Application (SPA), or an app that manages its own routes (url paths), you’ll want to add a _redirects file to your publish directory with the following line to take advantage of browser history pushstate: /* /index.html 200 You can read more information in our docs, which can be found here.

With the database

@adamprinciotta

The database is on an Ubuntu server I set up. The connection works from both my laptop and my desktop so there’s no problem with multiple connections that way.

I suspect you have a proxy set up (e.g. in the package.json) which allows this to work. You have two choices on Netlify:

• call the server URL directly from within the app; or
• create a proxy to the database server to use relative paths (e.g. /data.)

Documentation for the latter you will find Proxy to another service.