[Kiwix-developer] Configuring the root URL for kiwix-serve?

[Daniel K. <da...@da...>]

Hello,

I was playing around with configuring Kiwix for Apache via a reverse-proxy,
and setting it at a base path other than root. For instance, I would have
every URL prefixed with /kiwix/. This is simple enough to pull off such
that the pages load at the URLs I expect them. However, the hrefs within
Kiwix assume that all URLs start at /. So, for instance I can get the
library to show up, but the link to Wiktionary doesn't work, and none of
the CSS or JS resources load.

I was thinking of trying to go in there and make it possible to set an
alternate URL root with a kiwix-serve command line option. I've never
worked with developing Kiwix before. I figure I have to mess with the URL
router, as well as all of the html templates. I was wondering if I should
expect this to be particularly difficult or arduous? I was also wondering
about the likelihood that such a patch would be accepted in the project?

Thanks,

Dan