Deploy single page application Angular: 404 Not Found nginx

for those not using a Staticfile might wanna try this.

I had the same problem with nginx serving angular. The following is the default config file, probably found somewhere in /etc/nginx/sites-available/yoursite

     location / {
            # First attempt to serve request as file, then
            # as directory, then fall back to displaying a 404.
            try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
    }

but what we acctually want is...

     location / {
            # First attempt to serve request as file, then
            # as directory, then redirect to index(angular) if no file found.
            try_files $uri $uri/ /index.html;
    }

In your nginx.conf file try using:

try_files $uri $uri/ /index.html;

instead of:

try_files $uri $uri/ =404;

That worked for me on Angular 5 project.