For react SPA

nginx.conf

user nginx;
worker_processes auto;
error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log;
pid /var/run/nginx.pid;

events {
    worker_connections 1024;
}

http {
    log_format  main  '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] "$request" '
                      '$status $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" '
                      '"$http_user_agent" "$http_x_forwarded_for"';

    access_log  /var/log/nginx/access.log  main;

    sendfile            on;
    tcp_nopush          on;
    tcp_nodelay         on;
    keepalive_timeout   65;
    types_hash_max_size 2048;

    include             /etc/nginx/mime.types;
    default_type        application/octet-stream;

    # Load modular configuration files from the /etc/nginx/conf.d directory.
    # See http://nginx.org/en/docs/ngx_core_module.html#include
    # for more information.
    include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf;


    server {
        listen       80;
        server_name  52.71.50.213;

        root    html;
        index   index.html index.htm;

        location / {
            try_files $uri /index.html;
        }

        # Attempt to load static files, if not found route to @rootfiles
        location ~ (.+)\.(html|json|txt|js|css|jpg|jpeg|gif|png|svg|ico|eot|otf|woff|woff2|ttf)$ {
            #try_files $uri @rootfiles;
            rewrite ^/(.*)/(.*) /$2 redirect;
        }

        # Check for app route "directories" in the request uri and strip "directories"
        # from request, loading paths relative to root.
        location @rootfiles {
            rewrite ^/(.*)/(.*) /$2 redirect;
        }
    }
}