I see this is essentially a duplicate of this bug: http://www.mail-archive.com/fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org/msg11051.html which was reported about 18 months ago, with a patch.
On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 3:18 PM, Colin McCormack <mcc...@gmail.com> wrote: > (sorry for the funky formatting, Mailman) > > I wrote: > > > I would expect, having started a server with basename (say) > > http://localhost/fossil to be able to proxy URLs of the form 'GET > > /fossil/logo ...' and have fossil strip the /fossil prefix (ie: basename) > > from the URL, and respond with the logo. > > To which Richard Hipp <d...@sqlite.org> replied: > > > Why would you expect this? > > Well, it's more that I would expect the following to work: > > 1) fossil server --port 8080 --localhost --baseurl > http://localhost:8080/fossil . > > 2) fossil server --port 8080 --localhost --baseurl > http://localhost:8080/fossil H.fossil > > (given a cwd with an H.fossil in it) > > And I would expect them to work exactly as "fossil server --port 8080 > --localhost ." does. > > What I find, instead, is that (2) produces a page with internal links > which the fossil server itself can't follow, and that (1) produces only 404 > pages. There is, as far as I can ascertain, no construction of --baseurl > which will produce a workable website in conjunction with the "fossil > server" verb. > > > And what do you mean by the verb "to proxy"? > > By 'to proxy' I mean the act of 'going between', 'mediating between' or > 'standing between' the subject and the object of another verb, in this case > the verb 'to access' as in: 'I would like to access an HTML representation > of an interaction with fossil by means of the HTTP protocol, without having > to dedicate a port and ip address to the task'. > > I note that this common usage may not be consistent with the specialised > usage of 'to proxy' as is found in the HTTP specs. > > Colin. > >
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