S3 Static Website Hosting redirect with QueryString

Question

I'm currently using this solution to host my angular application on AWS S3 using Html5Mode: S3 Static Website Hosting Route All Paths to Index.html

My problem is that I want to keep the querystring during the redirection:

http://domain.org/posts?order=2 currently redirect to http://domain.org/#!/posts

I want it to go to http://domain.org/#!/posts?order=2.

Is this even possible?

This is the same solution as the one I've already put in place, it completely ignore querystring parameters, which is my issue :( — jbuiss0n, May 03 '16 at 12:16
Are you sure? http://spa-redirect-test.sqlbot.net/posts?this=works+for+me (actual test site, feel free to click). — Michael - sqlbot, May 03 '16 at 12:51
Now i'm upset, this works but i don't know why it wasn't before -_- Thx a lot for your help ! — jbuiss0n, May 03 '16 at 13:03
Possibly because you had been trying `!#` instead of `#!`. (That's how you showed it in the question, but I assumed you intended the opposite). — Michael - sqlbot, May 03 '16 at 14:35
Also, it is customary, here, when someone works you towards a solution through clarifying comments, to offer them the opportunity to post the answer. — Michael - sqlbot, May 03 '16 at 14:36

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 16 '17 at 13:07

0

Yes this is possible.

This probably happens because you don't forward the query strings from CloudFront to the S3 static website.

answered Aug 16 '17 at 13:07

tepez

546
10
16

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Nov 22 '17 at 20:28

The proper way to do this is to set the querystring first, then your hash fragment.

/?order=2#!/posts

Anything after # is not sent to the server. I know it seems the opposite of what you are trying to achieve, but this is how things work. QueryString parameters are sent to the server. Hash fragments are not and a QueryString in the hash fragment is still part of the hash fragment, so it is not transferred to the server.

S3 Static Website Hosting redirect with QueryString

2 Answers2