Routes not working when visiting a url directly

[KKaldis]

example
https://ator-dashboard.ar-io.dev/distribution

[KKaldis]

Investigate server rewrite paths.

if you are using Apatche add an .htaccess file

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    Options -MultiViews
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteRule ^ index.html [QSA,L]
</IfModule>

[jim-toth]

The dashboard is deployed as a permaweb app to Arweave itself. This means it's being served from whatever Arweave gateway you're currently getting it from (in the case of ator-dashboard.g8way.io you're getting it from the g8way.io gateway).

Arweave Gateways know to serve the dashboard as a website via a combination of a couple specifications:

• Content-Type tags as metadata on the data transactions themselves (the individual files uploaded to Arweave)
• Path Manifest Specification

The issue you're seeing is due to a current limitation of the Path Manifests Specification. The spec has been updated to include wildcards which would address this behavior - however it hasn't been fully implemented into production on Arweave Gateways.

Once Arweave Gateways have this updated Path Manifest functionality, this issue will essentially resolve itself. There is actually no workaround except to use hash-routing which is very ugly and temporary as the PR for this is almost complete pending final tests and PR approval 😄 👉 ar-io/ar-io-node#46

[jim-toth]

We'll keep this issue open as a tracker for this and close once Arweave Gateways have added wildcard support to resolve this.