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
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