Show /404.html on 404 about http-server HOT 11 CLOSED

Perhaps unrelated but it would be nice to specify an explicit fallback page (i.e. ./index.html) to support almost-static single page applications that change the URL using pushState. I could see that this is outside the scope of your project though...

The issue with using a default 404 page is that the server will still return an error status code in the HTTP response. Since I'm just using http-server as a simple documentation viewer... it's not a big deal.

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This works unless you use the -P / --proxy flag.

Single page apps can just symlink index.html -> 404.html and everything works. The server will still respond with a 404 code, but that shouldn't matter in most use cases.

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👍 I want to load my single page application if the file does not exist on the filesystem

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We don't use node-static anymore. Is this possible with ecstatic now @jesusabdullah? I read the code but it wasn't totally obvious to me at a quick skim.

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yes, ecstatic does this, and has for some time.

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Ok, going to reopen this because we need to expose it through the http-server CLI. Is there an example of how to use this functionality in ecstatic? The option is really illuding me when reading the source.

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@jesusabdullah specifically I am talking about custom 404 pages. Maybe that wasn't what you meant when you opened this issue.

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It's automatic, unless handleError is turned off.

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@cmwelsh realize this is a 6 months later, but 👍! Actually was looking at the repo today to see if this was a planned feature. I love this little server, but I can't use it for my SPA's with "html5mode" on for this reason.

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any progress on this?

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The 404.html file thing has been handled by node-ecstatic for awhile now. I've added a note about it to the README 9571d0a to close this issue.

Thanks, all!

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