Document how to use reverse proxies without Prefix URL

[pjox]

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Description I'm using filebrowser behind an Apache2 reverse proxy. Before I used filebrowser --port 8675 --scope files/ --prefixurl=/files to run filebrowser and it worked perfectly, but after updating to the latest version, and trying to run filebrowser -p 8675 -r files/ -b /files/ it stopped working.

Expected behaviour Filebrowser serving my files behind the Apache2 reverse proxy.

What is happening instead? I get a 503 error "Service Unavailable. The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to maintenance downtime or capacity problems. Please try again later." for the Apache2 server.

[nambrosch]

do you mean --baseurl?

[pjox]

Aren't -b and --baseurl the same thing?

[nambrosch]

you're right, i don't think it exists anymore. i'm using the default root (unspecified, or ".") and a --baseurl of "/filebrowser" so my apache config looks like this:

  <Location "/filebrowser/">
    ProxyPass http://127.0.0.1:8080/filebrowser/
    ProxyPassReverse http://127.0.0.1:8080/filebrowser/
  </Location>

  ProxyPreserveHost On
  RewriteEngine On

  RewriteCond %{HTTP:Connection} Upgrade [NC]
  RewriteCond %{HTTP:Upgrade} websocket [NC]
  RewriteRule (.*) ws://127.0.0.1:8080/$1 [P,L]

[pjox]

This works! Thanks! However, shouldn't it be documented somewhere for the people moving?

[marcenuc]

It is important to notice that the trailing "/" is needed.

[hacdias]

Hello! Yes, there's a bug with the trailing slash being needed and I haven't had time to fix it yet, although all PRs are much more than welcome.

@pjox sorry for not documenting it. I removed it because I noticed it wasn't required since it could be achieved in other ways (such as @nambrosch mentioned).

We also accept documentation PRs 😃 if you're available to do so @pjox, it'd be more than welcome