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

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

Thank you Emmanuel. I'm not very familiar with Apache mod_rewrite, but I
don't think that's what I'm looking for. To be more specific, the way I've
got it working so far, if I point the browser to:

/kiwix/

I expect to see the library, and I do. However if I click on Wiktionary, it
takes me to:

/wiktionary_en_all_2015-07/

rather than:

/kiwix/wiktionary_en_all_2015-07/

This is already a problem. I could create a rewrite rule to make Wiktionary
display at /wiktionary_en_all_2015-07/, but that defeats the purpose of
what I'm trying to do. I want to keep all of Kiwix under /kiwix/, and other
things under other sub-paths. Does this make sense? I believe that I need
to actually edit Kiwix to make it render the URLs differently. If anything,
I would want mod_substitute, though that's a rather blunt approach which I
probably don't want to take. I'd rather modify Kiwix.

So, my question is, how hard would the necessary changes in Kiwix be?

Thanks a lot,

Dan

On Sun, Aug 2, 2015 at 12:51 AM, Emmanuel Engelhart <ke...@ki...>
wrote:

> Hoi Daniel
>
> On 02.08.2015 06:42, Daniel Krol wrote:
> > 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?
>
> It is not really hard to get it working like you want, but you need
> indeed to configure the reverse-proxy correctly.
>
> Here is the configuration with use on our kiwix-plug:
> https://sourceforge.net/p/kiwix/other/ci/master/tree/plug/conf/nginx.conf
>
> It's not exactly what you need, but this show you which kind of URL to
> rewrite to get the CSS/JS working.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Regards
> Emmanuel
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