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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)

It won’t work well. Other instances make assumptions about paths as it’s standardized. For example they don’t store the full pictrs path, just the ID. It’s assumed the path is /pictrs/image. You would have to set 301 redirects. Other instances may link directly to your root uri when making links back to you. The api requests are also likely going to your root uri.

The front end can do whatever you want. Just change the paths typescript files before you compile as those also use root urls.

I have my instance setup to use a CDN and separate URL for all static content including pictrs. I have a script that modifies the front end while compiling to accomplish this. I use 301 redirects to fix all the assumed paths and requests from other instances.