[Galene] Re: Behind reverse proxy, not at the root

[Dirk-Willem van Gulik <dirkx@webweaving.org>]

On 3 Mar 2024, at 16:30, Dianne Skoll via Galene <galene@lists.galene.org> wrote:
> On Sun, 03 Mar 2024 16:20:36 +0100 Juliusz Chroboczek <jch@irif.fr> wrote:
> 
>> The obvious solution would be to make these pages dynamically
>> generated, but that in turn would make it difficult for people to
>> customise them as they wish.  Since I think that allowing easy
>> customisation is more important than making Galene easy to use with
>> reverse proxies, I haven't done that.
...
>  href="%WEBROOT%/whatever/the/link/is”

Alternatively - given that, if one drops the leading ‘/‘ on src/href all these links end up being, I think, of the style

	https://galene.domain.com/PREFIX/group/<foo>/….

Such as for the group “Ww":

	https://galene.domain.com/PREFIX/group/Ww/galene.js
	https://galene.domain.com/PREFIX/group/Ww/external/fontawesome/css/regular.min.css

Mapped in general from

	https://galene.domain.com/PREFIX(.*)
to

	http://127.0.0.1:8888/$1;

Where 127.0.0.1:8888 is what is the ' -http 127.0.0.1:8888 ‘ arg of Galene says. So we just strip ‘PREFIX’ here. With only a few exemptions from that rule for:

	https://galene.domain.com/PREFIX/ws (websocket only)
	https://galene.domain.com/PREFIX/group/Ww/ (as is)
	https://galene.domain.com/PREFIX/group/Ww/.status.json

That need to be mapped routed to their original places. This works well enough for me against Freebsd-ports and an apache/nginx (TLS stripping, reverse proxy) to Jail (galena, http) setting. And with below ‘just strip out the /‘ approach. I think it only breaks in one place — at the 404 not found that wants to send you to the root.

That may be an easy thing to add to galene perhaps.

With kind regards,

Dw.


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