404 after installation

[ransome1]

I'm trying to get started with Miniflux on Uberspace. I set up PostgreSQL according to this manual: https://lab.uberspace.de/guide_postgresql.html

I followed with this instruction to set up Miniflux on Uberspace: https://lab.uberspace.de/guide_miniflux.html

The configuration went painless and after the service was set up and Miniflux was running I tried to open it in my browser. I'm receiving a 404 that looks like this:

It actually doesn't look like a 404 page that belongs to the server, so this page might come out of the Miniflux application.

Can anybody tell me how I can figure out what the problem seems to be?

Your help is much appreciated!

[fguillot]

I don't know anything about Uberspace, but you might need to check the BASE_URL parameter.

[katomaso]

Hi, I've got the same problem. And yes, it is related to BASE_URL. Could you share more details about why this could be happening? My BASE_URL parses fine - miniflux starts without any problems. But when curl http://127.0.0.1:8081 I get 404 page not found. What can be in BASE_URL so it works?

[katomaso]

If I remove /path part from the BASE_URL then it works. I am trying to find out where in code it might be failing but it might take a long time for me. Could you look into it @fguillot please?

[katomaso]

Adding prefix of config.Opts.BasePath() to static routes definition starting at https://github.com/miniflux/miniflux/blob/master/ui/ui.go#L29 and going five lines further would fix it? Please

[wzzrd]

Suffering the same problem. Have miniflux on a server on localhost:8080, want to point to it from a Apache reverseproxy on my.hostname.com/flux. Get the same 404. Looking forward to a fix :)

[katomaso]

Hmm, don't understand - the part of code that I suggested is already there. Can't figure out where the 404 is coming from

[katomaso]

I got to a point where it works! It was a play of hide'n'seek with "/" in proxy config. But to take things in order

1. Your BASE_URL config in miniflux can be both example.com/reader and example.com/reader/. It does not matter.
2. It is necessary to pass full path via proxy (see following nginx configuration)

# force trailing slash
location = /reader {
    return 302 /reader/;
}

location /reader/ {
    # notice missing "/" at the end of proxy pass - that means even /reader/ will be passed to miniflux
    proxy_pass http://localhost:8080;

You can see the full config in yunohost package of miniflux

[ArunYogesh]

I faced a similar issue, for some reason the above config kept redirecting me. But the below worked, in case some one else wanders here, like me!

location /rss {
   proxy_pass http://docker_service_name:8080;
   proxy_redirect off;
   proxy_set_header Host $host;
   proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
   proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
   proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;