Using a different genesis url when deployed

[Kampe]

I've found a bug and checked that ...

• ...there are no open or closed issues that are related to my problem
• ...it's definitely a bug and not a feature request

Description

OCULAR_GENESIS_HOST does not like being set to "/" "" or null

Environment

OCULAR_GENESIS_HOST="/"

Expected behaviour

OCULAR_GENESIS_HOST uses the root and not /api

Steps to reproduce

No response

Additional info

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[simonwep]

Could you please elaborate what you're trying to achieve with

OCULAR_GENESIS_HOST="/"

Or it being set to null?

[Kampe]

The problem is with the default configuration running in anything except docker compose with nginx.

simonwep/genesis#4 is related

Currently api responds only on / while the frontend is sending all requests to /api/ - allowing this base url to be set would fix this issue

[Kampe]

The problem is actually a little different then I originally thought late last night, some api routes work just fine when using a rewrite, however the frontend still attempts to go to invalid URLs strangely enough:

Any idea why this happens? I'm able to hit /api/data without issue and receive a 200 with an empty object.

I can also log in and out without issue. However both calls to /api/data and /api/settings fail (it attempts /api/data/settings)

[simonwep]

Yeah this will require a change in both projects. Not sure about the frontend though as OCULAR_GENESIS_HOST is baked into the build, you'd have to build the docker-image yourself or we'd have to add an nginx config for the frontend container to make this a runtime option.

[Kampe]

Yeah, not sure that's the right environment variable for setting that, am completely open to any and all options would love to just get it working as it seems like a fantastic tool for my family, great work!

[simonwep]

Alright, I added the change to genesis. The frontend however is built and fix - it will require that, for a deployment outside of docker-compose, GENESIS_BASE_URL is set to /api/. If you want to change the URL the frontend makes requests to you will have to build the docker-image yourself, which should be pretty straight forward. Basically just changing OCULAR_GENESIS_HOST and running docker build . -t --env-file .env ocular or something like that.