# Ionic deployment problem

**URL:** <https://answers.netlify.com/t/ionic-deployment-problem/48296>\
**Category:** Support\
**Tags:** deployment, netlify-newbie\
**Created:** [December 4, 2021, 7:09pm UTC](https://answers.netlify.com/t/ionic-deployment-problem/48296 "2021-12-04T19:09:39Z")\
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Hi, @jasper-bot. Your site uses client side routing in the javascript. In order for this to work for direct links, a special “single-page application” (SPA) redirect rule is required.

There is a support guide about this here:

> [@\[Support Guide\] Direct links to my single page app (SPA) don't work](https://answers.netlify.com/t/support-guide-direct-links-to-my-single-page-app-spa-dont-work/126):
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> 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](https://docs.netlify.com/configure-builds/overview/#definitions-1) 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](https://docs.netlify.com/routing/redirects/rewrites-proxies/#history-pushstate-and-single-page-apps).

If you create that redirect, the direct links will work as required. If this doesn’t resolve it or if there are other questions, please let us know.

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