Firebase hosting showing welcome page after deploying angular 6 app?

Question

I want to develop the angular 6 apps, but after deploying firebase showing only welcome page.

Here are the steps I have taken to deploy.

installed firebase-tools
ng build --prod (in my app)
firebase init
Are you ready to proceed? (Y/n) y
(*) Hosting: Configure and deploy Firebase Hosting sites
What do you want to use as your public directory? (public) dist
Configure as a single-page app (rewrite all urls to /index.html)? (y/N) y
File dist/index.html already exists. Overwrite? (y/N) y
Firebase initialization complete!
In this step, I have deleted dist folder and run ng build --prod again
angular build app in a subfolder inside dist directory hence I copied all the content from the subdirectory which contains index.html to dist/.
firebase deploy
firebase open hosting:site

but after doing all that I am still getting welcome page in the link.

What am I doing wrong!?

score 20 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 05 '19 at 21:20

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Try: 8. File dist/index.html already exists. Overwrite? (y/N) N and open link to your app in incognito mode. Seriously, I stuck for hours because this firebase index got cached in my case, so this was the reason why I could't see my app after deploy.

answered Jun 05 '19 at 21:20

Lukasz Debiec

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Why does it work on incognito mode?? – XXIV Nov 06 '21 at 15:02

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 29 '21 at 07:10

The Problem is: firebase is looking for the index.html file, sometimes it is not present directly in the dist directory

Solution: update the public path in the firebase.json to "public":"dist/ProjectName" or path to the index.html file in the dist folder

Example

{
  "hosting": {
    "public": "dist/<YourProjectName>",
    "ignore": [
      "firebase.json",
      "**/.*",
      "**/node_modules/**"
    ],
    "rewrites": [
      {
        "source": "**",
        "destination": "/dist/index.html"
      }
    ]
  }
}

For me, I had to change the "public" value to "build/web", but that worked! Maybe because I am using Flutter to build my app? — Max, May 08 '22 at 05:55

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 24 '20 at 07:28

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Browser cache was my issue as well. As mentioned above, try in incognito or use proxysite.com (very useful website) to avoid browser cache

answered Oct 24 '20 at 07:28

Ivo Tsochev

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score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Jul 02 '21 at 19:47

In my case, I was initializing firebase inside the project directory (src). Just check the directory you are in. It should be on the top level.

After you build it and try to deploy it, it will be the same since the web page has been cached. So to make sure use in incognito.

score 1 · Answer 5 · answered Nov 23 '22 at 12:00

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In my case I had to change public to dist in firebase.json so it pointed to my dist folder (rather than the public folder which contains the holding page) after I added Firebase Functions to my project:

"hosting": {
   "public": "dist",
   ...
}

answered Nov 23 '22 at 12:00

Mike Poole

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score 0 · Answer 6 · answered May 03 '21 at 10:06

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Check the path on terminal .if the problem still exists then delete firebase auto created folders and deploy the project

answered May 03 '21 at 10:06

vaishnav alppara

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score 0 · Answer 7 · answered Jul 25 '21 at 04:40

Configure as a single-page app (rewrite all urls to /index.html)? No ? Set up automatic builds and deploys with GitHub? No

Wrote public/404.html ? File public/index.html already exists. Overwrite? No

This error is generated by index.html inside public folder of your website folder.

score 0 · Answer 8 · answered Dec 20 '22 at 09:31

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The welcome page is an automatically generated index.html file found in public folder. I replaced that file with my own index.html file, then use firebase deploy --only hosting commands to update the changes.

answered Dec 20 '22 at 09:31

Mizile

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score 0 · Answer 9 · edited Mar 15 '23 at 21:03

first you should login firebase login after that write command firesbe init

first steps

What do you want to use as your public directory? (public) dist/projectname
File dist/index.html already exists. Overwrite? (y/N) N

after completing the process you should run (npm run build) command and it generates the build file. after that you should got to firebase.json and put build folder in public directory

{
  "hosting": {
    "public": "build",
    "ignore": [
      "firebase.json",
      "**/.*",
      "**/node_modules/**"
    ],
    "rewrites": [
      {
        "source": "**",
        "destination": "/dist/index.html"
      }
    ]
  }
}

and the last not the least firebase deploy. works perfectly

score -1 · Answer 10 · answered Jan 15 '21 at 15:36

-1

This worked for me:

Delete .firebase folder
Delete .firebaserc
Delete firebase.json

Now run as follow:

$ firebase init hosting
? File build/web/index.html already exists. Overwrite? No
$ firebase deploy --only hosting

answered Jan 15 '21 at 15:36

Roozbeh

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score -1 · Answer 11 · answered Jul 01 '22 at 21:24

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firebase init hosting ? File build/index.html already exists. Overwrite? No npm run build firebase deploy --only hosting

answered Jul 01 '22 at 21:24

Jm Molina

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