React App not accessible with direct links

[glorifiedmonkey]

I used create-react-app to build a MERN app. The front-end uses create-react-app and is deployed here: https://friendly-leakey-05373b.netlify.com/

Once deployed to Netlify, when I navigate from / to /cities, all is fine. Once I go one level deeper to /cities/bern (example), I get a 404. When I go back to /cities, I get a 404 also.

When I go to /cities directly (without going to / before), I also get a 404.

Any ideas?

[perry]

hi there, did you give this a read through already?

[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.

[glorifiedmonkey]

Thank you @perry, that solved my issue.
I should have searched a little more before posting …