Hosting hister behind a reverse proxy on a sub-path?

[maples3]

Hello! I ended up here from the Hacker News thread the other day, this looks like an awesome piece of software!

I'm trying to set up Hister on my home server. I'd like to host it on a sub-path of my primary domain, rather than a subdomain. Is this possible?

I tried the following config:

      - HISTER__SERVER__ADDRESS=0.0.0.0:4433
      - HISTER__SERVER__BASE_URL=https://example.com/hister

and in Apache:

<VirtualHost *:443>
        ServerName example.com

        <!-- server config: other sub-paths, LetsEncrypt, etc -->

        # Hister
        <Location /hister>
                ProxyPass "http://127.0.0.1:5201/"
        </Location>

</VirtualHost>

I also tried appending /hister to the end of the SERVER_ADDRESS config, but I got "invalid port" errors so that config option seems only valid for IP address and port.

I can see in the Docker output that Hister is receiving the HTTP requests, but is responding with 404 errors:

hister  | 2026-08-24T13:52:59Z | INFO   | server/server.go:408 > WEB LoadTimeMS=0.003757 Method=GET Status=404 URL=/
hister  | 2026-08-24T13:53:29Z | INFO   | server/server.go:408 > WEB LoadTimeMS=0.012403 Method=GET Status=404 URL=/
hister  | 2026-08-24T13:53:59Z | INFO   | server/server.go:408 > WEB LoadTimeMS=0.004669 Method=GET Status=404 URL=/
hister  | 2026-08-24T13:54:29Z | INFO   | server/server.go:408 > WEB LoadTimeMS=0.005601 Method=GET Status=404 URL=/
hister  | 2026-08-24T13:54:59Z | INFO   | server/server.go:408 > WEB LoadTimeMS=0.003526 Method=GET Status=404 URL=/
hister  | 2026-08-24T13:55:29Z | INFO   | server/server.go:408 > WEB LoadTimeMS=0.004869 Method=GET Status=404 URL=/

Is this a configuration that Hister supports? Or does Hister need to be hosted on the root of a subdomain?

[asciimoo]

If I understand correctly, Apache translates /hister/... to http://127.0.0.1:5201/ in your config

Apache should preserve the /hister/ prefix. Something like this should work:

RedirectMatch 301 ^/hister$ /hister/

ProxyPass        "/hister/" "http://127.0.0.1:5201/hister/"
ProxyPassReverse "/hister/" "http://127.0.0.1:5201/hister/"

Also don't forget to properly setup the websocket forwarding. I'm not sure what is the proper way to do it using Apache, but with nginx it is the following: https://hister.org/docs/server-setup#nginx

[maples3]

That did the trick, thank you!