How to serve React app AND Django blog from Nginx? - django

Question

I'm using nginx to serve a React app from my domain root / and a Django blog app from /blog. I'm also using nginx to redirect all http to https.
The problem is some weird behaviour... If I navigate to the blog with a clear cache, it shows the blog. If I then navigate to the index page it shows the react app. All good so far. But then, if I return to /blog it continues to show the react app, not the blog! I think the problem involves caching, but I'm not sure where.
I am not using react-router, so I'm not sure how the urls could get redirected on the client side.
Here is my nginx config:
server {
listen 80;
server_name mydomain.com;
return 301 https://$server_name$request_uri;
}
server {
listen 443 ssl;
server_name mydomain.com;
root /production_build;
location /static/ {
root /var/www/mysite;
}
location /blog {
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
proxy_redirect off;
proxy_pass http://upstream_django_server;
}
location /cms {
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
proxy_redirect off;
proxy_pass http://upstream_django_server;
}
location / {
try_files $uri /index.html;
}
}

Answer 1

You should disable the service worker in react, as it is interfering with your /blog url and returning its own response the next time.
Since you are mixing 2 apps here, you don't want to take a risk of having something which is difficult to get rid of.
Service workers can be sometimes very nasty because of caching responses