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Self hosting lemmy: does it support subpath URLs? (self.selfhosted)

submitted 1 year ago by gabriele97 to c/selfhosted

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Hi! I want to self host lemmy on my homelab. I have a lot of services installed but only a couple of them are exposed on the internet using subpaths like host.com/plex or host.com/nextcloud.

I want to do the same with lemmy, so host.com/lemmy. Does lemmy support this particular URL configuration? Thank you!

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You might be able to setup a mod_rewrite rule to load a specific file path or other url based on the URL path, but a subdomain would probably be easier/cleaner.

From Apache mod_rewrite docs:

The mod_rewrite module uses a rule-based rewriting engine, based on a PCRE regular-expression parser, to rewrite requested URLs on the fly. By default, mod_rewrite maps a URL to a filesystem path. However, it can also be used to redirect one URL to another URL, or to invoke an internal proxy fetch.

Just remember the old adage about regular expressions: when you use a regular expression to try to solve one problem, you create two problems.

A subdomain would likely be cleaner and easier.