What's the current state of support for URL rewriting?

[ghost]

We're trying to serve some Gatsby pages by using Nginx to rewrite the page URLs, but it seems that Gatsby depends on the page URL to reference a direct path on disk--I get the following console errors when I then try to access these sites (we're rewriting URLs such as /hotels-ng?district=1234 to page directory paths such as public/district_1234):

A page wasn't found for "/hotels-ng"
loader.js:259:8
A page wasn't found for "/404.html"

I saw that a similar question about path rewriting was raised in #383 but that issue is over a year old and the advice there seems to be outdated, so I figured that I'd raise it again. Like, is this the new example that I should be following? Looking for any guidance really. Thanks!

[KyleAMathews]

When you're working with a static site generator — you need to create paths which correspond to file directories.

Why not just make urls like /hotels-ng/district/1234/?

[ghost]

We could. I can see how this could call for pushing back on the URL structure. Thanks for the quick reply.