I have a manifest.json
and it has a start_url
property that I want to point to the first file of my single page application.
This is index.html
, and it's the root of the site. I want this to be the start_url
, but that file is never asked for as a URL.
How do I point start_url
at the relative root of the site?
For instance, suppose the site is at https://example.com
, what should the value of start_url
be in https://example.com/manifest.json
? I want the PWA to start at https://example.com
and not https://example.com/index.html
. The PWA might be put on a different domain, so start_url
needs to be relative, not absolute.
If you are running in the root of a site, for instance https://example.com/manifest.json
or https://test.example.com/manifest.json
you can use "start_url": "/"
.
However, this will also map https://example.com/test/manifest.json
to https://example.com/
, which fails because it's in a folder outside the scope of the manifest.
Instead, if you are using a sub-directory you need to set both a scope
and the start_url
:
"start_url": "./"
"scope": "."
This will cause https://example.com/test/manifest.json
to map to https://example.com/test/
as expected.