Use URI for reverse proxy

[Whitestrake (Matthew Fay)]

Howdy @waldauf!

@waldauf

When I type in the browser https://blabla.com/gitea I get the page with Gitea, but the page is broken. I see texts and fields but without any page design/formatting. When I click on the login I get a blank page with this address https://blabla.com/user/login?redirect_to=%2f.

This is the splitting image of something I’ve described as the subfolder problem. We see this issue so frequently that I’ve written a crash course on it here - what it is, why it happens, and what you can do about it:

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…