Closed pmhausen closed 6 months ago
I would like to know why this is needed and why the current reverse proxy options can't just reverse proxy to that app. Is that Apache Guacamole?
Yes. If you don't redirect you end up with the tomcat home page.
What happens if you use the handle_path directive to directly go into /guacamole/* while stripping the path from the domain? Its supported in the GUI.
https://caddyserver.com/docs/caddyfile/directives/handle_path
I thought the handle path is used to strip paths from the request? I.e.
https://external.do.main/foo is handled by http://some.internal.domain?
Guacamole cannot run at / - it must run in /guacamole/. I learned how to redirect in tomcat but don't entirely trust it. IMHO this is generally best done in the frontend just like HTTP to HTTPS redirects.
If you want it I'm not holding you back on trying to implement it. It has to work for both domains and subdomains. Maybe a new "Redirect" tab would be good. It can work the same way as the access lists with a model relation field in subdomains and domains.
Its a pretty big change, tell me if you want to do it.
Also, nobody who uses it has requested this yet, it seems like a very specific requirement.
Maybe leveraging the import statement in caddy.d is less of a hazzle for you? You could drop a "guacamole.conf" in there that has the configuration for it.
https://github.com/Monviech/os-caddy-plugin?tab=readme-ov-file#custom-configuration-files
I'll fix it with another reverse proxy instance right in the Guacamole jail. This is their recommended way, anyway. Tomcat is kinda weird :)
Case closed.
Okay, yeah it does sound weird. Thanks for the suggestion though.
If this is requested more often we can always open it up again.
For now its a good choice to keep caddy focused on its core functionality, a reverse plugin thats easy to configure and you dont pull your hair out. ^^
BTW: currently Caddy cannot e.g. reverse_proxy http://some.host:some_port/some_path
- only scheme, host and path are supported. Well ... using Nginx for that instance. See:
https://guacamole.apache.org/doc/0.9.8/gug/proxying-guacamole.html
Hi!
I need something like this:
inside a reverse proxy domain context.
I am not quite sure about the best place to put this in the UI. As a first idea I suggest creating a third section in the "Access" tab labelled "Redirects", then activating predefined redirect statements in the domain configuration similar to basic authentication.
What do you think?
Kind regards, Patrick