Can't make reverse_proxy to play nicely with redirects (minio, netdata, urbit)

[francislavoie]

You’re running into the issue described in this article:

The "subfolder problem", OR, "why can't I reverse proxy my app into a subfolder?"

Have you ever tried to reverse proxy an app into its own little subfolder of your domain name? Makes things neat, doesn’t it? Using example.com/foo/ for one app, example.com/bar/ for another. If you’re coming here from one of the selfhosted communities, you might be thinking along the lines of example.com/sonarr/, example.com/radarr/ etc. Chances are, you’ve tried some configuration along these lines: example.com { redir /sonarr /sonarr/ handle_path /sonarr/* { reverse_proxy localhost…

I strongly recommend that you use subdomains for each service instead of serving them all under different subpaths.

Many services are not designed to be run under a different subpath. It’s not something you can really solve directly with Caddy. It’s easiest to just give those services a whole subdomain instead, if they don’t have configuration options to allow changing the “base path”.