Volto: The backend server of your website is not answering

According to your first post you have a running Plone instance and you have Volto installed. Now you need to plug them together.

This is one way (replace Apache with NGINX if you want) : Cors Error even after changing buildout file : Volto - #10 by ksuess

For mimicing a deployment you build and then start in production mode:

Run a production build:

PORT=3000 RAZZLE_API_PATH=http://voltodeployment.example.com/api/ yarn build

Start Volto in production mode:

yarn start:prod

For development you do not build, you just start Volto:

PORT=3000 RAZZLE_API_PATH=http://voltodeployment.example.com/api/ yarn start

remark:

*http://voltodeployment.example.com/api/ * is your Plone backend with REST API and CORS configured.