reverse proxy - serve bb from a specific path

[dncpax]

Hi there (again).

I don't mean to carpet question the bb team... but as I progress I do find difficulties and have no other option than to pester you good folks...

Sooo... I'm trying to do what the reverse proxy doc page says:
https://docs.budibase.com/self-hosting/hosting-settings/advanced-options/reverse-proxy

Where location / has been set you can change the slash to a path name if you desire to have your Budibase app server running on a specific path rather than the whole domain or a sub-domain.

But I'm not seeing how this can work, since bb uses absolute paths to load assets like "/builder/assets/index.32c8bc7d.js".

Even if I setup my reverse proxy to use a path (eg server/budibase/builder), bb will return absolute url's that don't include this path.

At first I thought the Platform URL was for this purpose, but it seems it's not...

May be there's a config for envoy that I'm not aware of?

What to do???

Thanks.

[dncpax]

I used oubound rules to add a subpath on the reverse proxy. I have done this before. It's a pain but works.

The problem is budibase complains of unknown route:

Uncaught Error: Route could not be found for "/subpath/builder".
    at Oe (vendor.60887453.js:1)
    at Object.r [as updatePage] (vendor.60887453.js:1)
    at vendor.60887453.js:1

I'm starting to think this is not possible... which is a deal breaker for my use case. I just cannot afford creating a sub-domain for every web app...

Any help would be really appreciated.

I also played around with envoy.yaml which would allow to use a simpler reverse proxy config, but the same error occurs.

Thanks.

[shogunpurple]

Hi @dncpax - thank you for the detailed write up on this. I believe you are correct - before, we used to serve static assets on a specific path, that the node server served directly. We then moved to envoy and minIO, which changed things.

The error that you are seeing there appears to be a front end issue with our routing library - the front end is trying to serve the route at /subpath/builder. You would need to have your reverse proxy strip the /subpath before the request gets through.

What are your exact requirements? Are you trying to serve each individual app on a separate path, so that users can go directly to them and bypass the portal?

[dbudano]

I have EXACTLY the same problem as @faizalheesyam except that I'm using Traefik as a reverse proxy.

Any update one year later ?

[jheaff1]

I'm having the same issues. I'd like to simply host budibase at http://xxxxx/budibase using nginx as a reverse proxy, yet budibase redirects to http://xxxxx/builder rather than say http://xxxx/budibase/builder

[JayP718]

@jheaff1 Have you had any luck with this?

[jheaff1]

@JayP718 Sadly not

[zzdpavo]

same problem here...sadly. any update @shogunpurple @dncpax ?

[dncpax]

Hi @shogunpurple. Thanks for looking into this.
I'll have a go as soon as I can and report back!