prerender.io .htaccess variable - Reactjs CRA

Question

I set up prerender.io for CRA and it works well, but when bot hits URL without parameters it puts in the end of URL - string ".var"

I tried variations of (.*) but it seems not working. Any ideas?

Here is .htaccess file

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.*)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%1/$1 [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !on
RewriteRule (.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]

<IfModule mod_headers.c>
    RequestHeader set X-Prerender-Token "TOKEN"
    RequestHeader set X-Prerender-Version "[email protected]"
</IfModule>

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On
    <IfModule mod_proxy_http.c>
        RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} googlebot|bingbot|yandex|baiduspider|facebookexternalhit|twitterbot|rogerbot|linkedinbot|embedly|quora\ link\ preview|showyoubot|outbrain|pinterest\/0\.|pinterestbot|slackbot|vkShare|W3C_Validator|whatsapp [NC,OR]
        RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} _escaped_fragment_
        RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^(?!.*?(\.js|\.css|\.xml|\.less|\.png|\.jpg|\.jpeg|\.gif|\.pdf|\.doc|\.txt|\.ico|\.rss|\.zip|\.mp3|\.rar|\.exe|\.wmv|\.doc|\.avi|\.ppt|\.mpg|\.mpeg|\.tif|\.wav|\.mov|\.psd|\.ai|\.xls|\.mp4|\.m4a|\.swf|\.dat|\.dmg|\.iso|\.flv|\.m4v|\.torrent|\.ttf|\.woff|\.svg))

        RewriteRule ^(index\.html|index\.php)?(.*) https://service.prerender.io/%{REQUEST_SCHEME}://%{HTTP_HOST}/$2 [P,END]
    </IfModule>
</IfModule>

Answer 1

Lately @MrWhite gave us another, better and simple solution - just add DirectoryIndex index.html to .htaccess file will do the same.

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From the beginning I wrote that DirectoryIndex is working but NO! It seems it's working when you try prerender.io, but in reality it was showing website like this:

and I had to remove it. So it was not issue with .htaccess file, it was coming from the server.

What I did was I went into WHM->Apache Configurations->DirectoryIndex Priority and I saw this list

and yes that was it!

To fix I just moved index.html to the very top second comes index.html.var and after rest of them.

I don't know what index.html.var is for, but I did not risk just to remove it. Hope it helps someone who struggled as me.