Add --base-path flag for use with absolute proxy

[code-asher]

This is not for code-server itself (since it works relatively), it would just be prepended to absproxy requests for applications that need the full path.

[rafaelnferreira]

Hi @code-asher I've submitted a PR to resolve this case, could you have a look when you have a chance? Thanks

[yuzhuoheng]

abs-proxy-base-path It didn't work. This is my startup command:

I tried to open it with a browser, and the page prompt was as follows:

[code-asher]

I answered in the other issue, but as mentioned above

This is not for code-server itself (since it works relatively), it would just be prepended to absproxy requests for applications that need the full path.

[code-asher]

In other words, if you have an application on port 3000 and it requires absolute paths, and you have a reverse proxy serving code-server at /some/path, you can set --abs-proxy-base-path=/some/path, and then you can access your app with http://code-server.com/some/path/absproxy/3000.

Hope that helps!

[kimboslice99]

I think the long list of people that keep asking various questions on getting code-server to work under a base path should be a strong enough indicator that the docs are not thorough enough.

[code-asher]

Fair. I believe it is confusing because there are potentially two proxies: the one that hosts code-server, and code-server's built-in proxy, for viewing webapps you are working on.

The base path flag is for code-server's built-in proxy. Nothing needs to be done to make code-server itself work behind another proxy, like Caddy or NGINX or so on.

We are open to PRs that clarify the docs. I think I may be too close to the source code to understand how to word them in a way that makes sense to other folks.