1. The problem I’m having: Fronting two local web servers and using handle_path to direct traffic based on incoming /subfolder value. Not passing subfolder value. One handle path works and the other doesn’t. The failing revers_proxy works OK without handle_path. NOTABLE: I needed to add “protoc…

See this article: [image] The "subfolder problem", OR, "why can't I reverse proxy my app into a subfolder?" Wiki 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 a…

[image] mooncaptain108: handle_path /* { This doesn’t make sense – if you don’t have a path to strip, use handle instead (with no matcher).

OK - changed as noted - the …3.101 web server still still works and the …3.102 web server still fails. Thanks for responding. { debug servers { protocols h1 } } 192.168.3.40 { handle_path /files* { reverse_proxy http://192.168.3.102:80 } handle { reverse_proxy 192.168.3.101:80 } }

I misunderstood the handle_path directive - I thought that it would strip off the /files/ sub-folder from the URI and just execute the reverse_proxy command unadorned. I read the link you provided - and having seen first hand how badly the handle_path behaves I know it isn’t working properly. It mu…

[image] mooncaptain108: I thought that it would strip off the /files/ sub-folder from the URI and just execute the reverse_proxy command unadorned. That is what it does. It strips the matched path prefix from the URL, then continues handling. (They’re called “directives”, btw). [image] mo…

My customer is using a 3rd party web application - and it does have the ability to change it’s base url so I have been experimenting with that and it seems to work. Thanks again for your help. caddy is helping me solve some longtime problems with this installation.

Plain reverse_proxy works - fails when using handle_path

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francislavoie (Francis Lavoie) October 20, 2023, 2:24am 4

See this article:

If your upstream app isn’t configured to understand that it should make requests with /files as prefix, it won’t work properly.