| # Server Configurations | |
| ## Apache | |
| This boilerplate includes an `app/.htaccess` file that does three things: | |
| 1. Redirect all traffic to HTTPS because ServiceWorker only works for encrypted | |
| traffic. | |
| 2. Rewrite all pages (e.g. `yourdomain.com/subpage`) to `yourdomain.com/index.html` | |
| to let `react-router` take care of presenting the correct page. | |
| 3. Ensure that sw.js is not cached. This is required for updates to be downloaded in offline-first mode. | |
| > Note: For performance reasons you should probably adapt this to run as a static | |
| > `.conf` file (typically under `/etc/apache2/sites-enabled` or similar) so that | |
| > your server doesn't have to apply these rules dynamically per request) | |
| ### security | |
| `.htaccess` can only provide security by redirecting HTTP to HTTPS | |
| > Note: For a detailed security configuration in apache httpd, a `.conf` file is necessary. You can use [Mozilla's TLS Configurator](https://mozilla.github.io/server-side-tls/ssl-config-generator/) to get some examples. | |
| ## Nginx | |
| An `app/.nginx.conf` file is included that does the same on an Nginx server. | |
| ### security | |
| Additionally, the `.nginx.conf` provides TLS security configuration settings based on [Mozilla's TLS Guidelines](https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Server_Side_TLS), including: | |
| - HSTS Header | |
| - TLS 1.2 only | |
| - Prefer server-side ciphersuites | |
| - Strong ciphersuites | |
| - Own DH Key (optional) | |
| - OCSP & SSL Stapling (optional) | |