Running mender server on a path

General Discussions
1

Hi all, I’m trying to setup mender server (GUI) to run on an existing host on a subpath. I’m using K8S on Azure and I’m using the helm chart mender-helm/mender at master · mendersoftware/mender-helm · GitHub

I’ve set global.url in values to the full URL with subpath i.e. https://app.example.com/mender and the serving of the html page works but all of the assets in the html are without the path i.e. https://app.example.com/env.js

Are there any settings I can use to control this?

2

Hey!
Unfortunately the global.url does not allow configuring custom sub-paths and can only point to the host URL. It should be pretty straight forward to modify the chart to make the gateway (Traefik) aware of it. I created a tentative PR to the Helm repository.

3

Alternatively, it’s probably easier to configure the ingress to rewrite the target URL. For example, if you’re using nginx ingress controller you can do:

apiVersion: networking.k8s.io/v1
kind: Ingress
metadata:
  name: mender-ingress
  annotations:
    nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/rewrite-target: /$0
spec:
  rules:
  - host: "app.example.com"
    http:
      paths:
      - path: /mender($|/)(.*)
        pathType: Prefix
        backend:
          service:
            name: mender-api-gateway
            port:
              number: 80
4

Hi @alfrunes, I went with a dedicated hostname and cert. Originally I wanted all publicly accessible stuff to be behind 1 hostname but I think it may be more trouble than it’s worth. I may reattempt and will report back.