Hi! On Fri, Oct 06, 2023 at 01:04:20PM +0200, Daniel Bünzli wrote:
a) Is there an easy way to convince koha to root its URLs w.r.t. to the prefix we’d like them to be on ? Maybe an environment variable or a launch parameter or an http header to set in the nginx configuration ? (I’m a bit unfamiliar with the whole plack/starman eco-system)
AFAIK there isn't, and I had the same problem some time ago. The problem is mainly that a LOT of templates have hardcoded URLs starting with "/" in them (instead of using a resolver like uri_for, which could then consider some HTTP Headers to fiddle with the paths) We ended up with some rather ugly rewrites (of the content, not the URLs!!!) using mod_substitute and mod_filter, plus a bunch of mod_rewrites (which are comparably easy) <Location "/some-other-path/"> AddOutputFilterByType SUBSTITUTE text/html text/plain application/json application/javascript Substitute "s|/cgi-bin/|/some-other-path/cgi-bin/|i" Substitute "s|/intranet-tmpl/|/some-other-path/intranet-tmpl/|i" Substitute "s|/api/v1/|/some-other-path/api/v1/|i" </Location> This will take the output generated upstream (i.e. plack) and do actual regex replaces on the HTML. So ... ugh...
b) Is there any strong problem I’m not seeing in trying to setup koha the way I outlined above and use nginx rather than apache to serve the app ?
There might be some long-running scripts left that can only be run as CGI (because they fork). You can find those in apache-shared-intranet-plack.conf after "# FIXME: These scripts should be fixed so they..." (at least in 22.11). But maybe they all have been ported to RabbitMQ, in which case I think there should be no problems using nginx as a frontend (or maybe they can also be made to work with nginx?) But maybe I also remeber this wrong, but I think we decided to keep Apache (even though I'd rather use nginx) because of these issues... Hope that helps, Greetings, domm -- Thomas Klausner domm https://domm.plix.at Just another ( Perl | Postgres | Bicycle | Food | Photo | Vinyl ) Hacker A not-so-short list of things I learned at PerlKohaCon #Perl #Koha [ 2023-08-19 10:00 > https://domm.plix.at/perl/2023_08_things_i_learned_at_perlkohacon.html ] Long and good read: http://bit-player.org/2023/ai-and-the-end-of-programming [ 2023-09-14 12:01 > https://domm.plix.at/microblog.html ]