Single uri redirection vs subdomain for separate base directory

[xgpt (Paul)]

1. The problem I’m having:

I’m struggling to understand the documentation surrounding URI redirection.

I’d like for:

https://artisanadaptations.com/staging/

to serve

/home/username/artisanadaptations.com/src/public/

and I would like

https://artisanadaptations.com/

to serve

/home/username/artisanadaptations.com/srv/

The reason I’d like for this so I can quickly preview changes in a very simple Hugo website without having to commit each change to what people will find on logging into the base URL.

I suppose I could do this with https://staging.artisanadaptations.com/ but I’d like to learn if this is at all possible this way with URL/rewrites.

2. Error messages and/or full log output:

n/a

3. Caddy version:

version:
alpinehostname# apk info caddy
caddy-2.6.4-r6 description:
Fast, multi-platform web server with automatic HTTPS

caddy-2.6.4-r6 webpage:
https://caddyserver.com/

caddy-2.6.4-r6 installed size:
41 MiB

4. How I installed and ran Caddy:

apk install caddy

a. System environment:

Alpine on a VPS

b. Command:

n/a

c. Service/unit/compose file:

n/a

d. My complete Caddy config:

n/a, looking for recommendations on how to configure this

5. Links to relevant resources:

[francislavoie]

See 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…

It is possible to do that, but your site in the subpath needs to be aware of being in a subpath, and all the links in the HTML need to have /staging as a prefix.

Since you’re using Hugo, there’s likely a way to configure it to generate URLs with a prefix everywhere. I think there’s a baseURL option you can configure.

That said, a subdomain is certainly the easiest solution.

@xgpt

alpinehostname# apk info caddy
caddy-2.6.4-r6 description:

That’s a pretty old version at this point. Please upgrade to the latest version, 2.7.5.

[matt (Matt Holt)]

root /staging/* /home/username/artisanadaptations.com/src/public
root * /home/username/artisanadaptations.com/srv

should do what you want, but as Francis said, beware the subfolder problem.

[francislavoie]

No not quite @matt because that would require the files to be in /home/username/artisanadaptations.com/src/public/staging.

You need handle_path to strip /staging from the URL before handling, if your files, if no /staging directory exists inside /public.

[matt (Matt Holt)]

Oh, I see what he meant now. Ok, yeah. handle_path would work for that, and/or the manual use of uri strip_prefix.