Put NoteDiscovery under reverse proxy using path not root

[juangre]

I want to proxy NoteDiscovery with a path like https:///notediscovery, but I saw the index.html has absolute links like /static, and notes have also absolute paths not relative and the same for /api

Is there any way to use relative path? or having absolute path defined as environment variable?

Thank you

[gamosoft]

Hey there, thanks for using the app. I currently have it hosted in my own homelab with a url like:

https://notediscovery.homelab.local

Behind Traefik with Authelia, and works like a charm, no need to change any specific address. This is the relevant piece of my docker compose:

  notediscovery:
    image: homelab-notediscovery:1.0.0
    build:
      context: ./images/notediscovery
      dockerfile: ./Dockerfile
    container_name: homelab-notediscovery
    hostname: notediscovery.${HOMELAB_DOMAIN}
    environment:
      - TZ=$TIMEZONE
    volumes:
      - ${HOMELAB_PERSISTENT}/notediscovery/data:/app/data
      - ${HOMELAB_PERSISTENT}/notediscovery/plugins:/app/plugins
      - ${HOMELAB_PERSISTENT}/notediscovery/themes:/app/themes
      - ${HOMELAB_PERSISTENT}/notediscovery/config.yaml:/app/config.yaml
    networks:
      - homelab-network
    restart: unless-stopped
    labels:
      - traefik.enable=true
      - traefik.http.routers.notediscovery.rule=Host(`notediscovery.${HOMELAB_DOMAIN}`)
      - traefik.http.services.notediscovery.loadbalancer.server.port=8000
      - traefik.http.routers.notediscovery.entrypoints=web,websecure
      - traefik.http.routers.notediscovery.tls=true
      - traefik.http.routers.notediscovery.middlewares=authelia

and the Dockerfile only has:

FROM ghcr.io/gamosoft/notediscovery:latest

Does this help?

[awhwong]

I think the ask here is for a subpath if I'm reading it right.
To make ND available via a URL like https://secret.domain.com/notediscovery - so that /api, /static become .com/notediscovery/api, .com/notediscovery/static instead of .com/api, .com/static.

[juangre]

I think the ask here is for a subpath if I'm reading it right. To make ND available via a URL like https://secret.domain.com/notediscovery - so that /api, /static become .com/notediscovery/api, .com/notediscovery/static instead of .com/api, .com/static.

Exactly, I,m looking for using a subpath. For example Paperless_ngx has two environment variables to indicate the subpath (https://docs.paperless-ngx.com/configuration/#PAPERLESS_STATIC_URL). It defaults to /static but you canchange to /paperless/static.

Maybe we can use the same method to change /api o /static to /notediscovery/api or /notediscovery/static

Thank you

[gamosoft]

IMHO I think this would be better handled at the reverse proxy configuration, there's ways you can do that for most of them (Traefik, nginx, Caddy...).

This BASE_PATH change is not trivial (haven't looked much into it), but if you have https://whatever/notediscovery, the app will think /notediscovery is a note to load... and there are quite a few places this needs to change.

How about going the subdomain configuration (like I do)?
I have my root which is https://homelab.local, and then subdomains for each service:

• https://notediscovery.homelab.local/
• https://grafana.homelab.local/
• https://guacamole.homelab.local/

Is this much of a deal breaker for you?

[juangre]

I will do the change of the path in the proxy https://external/notediscovery to http://internal:8000/, and then you have no to change the BASE_PATH.

The problem is in the HTML generated that will include links like /static, /api or similar that will not work because is an absolute link.

My proposal is changing the generation of HTML or JS and JSON files () to be relative or if it has to be absolute with a variable like PROXY_BASE_PATH to be defined in the configuration (could be / by default).

I can use subdomains for each service if we use it only at home, but I want to publish to Internet for other family users and then is more difficult to have several public subdomains and it's better to use path instead.