From: "Omar Polo" <op@omarpolo.com>
Subject: Re: fix gotwebd login when URL location != "/"
To: Stefan Sperling <stsp@stsp.name>
Cc: gameoftrees@openbsd.org
Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2025 01:28:09 +0100

Stefan Sperling <stsp@stsp.name> wrote:
> Add the gotwebd root URL to login links. Otherwise gotwebd will not receive
> login requests if the webserver is not running gotwebd at URL location "/".
> 
> E.g. a config like this just won't work otherwise:
> 
> httpd.conf:
> 
> server "example.com" {
> 	location "/gotweb" {
> 		fastcgi socket "/run/gotweb.sock"
> 	}
> 	location "/gotweb/*" {
> 		fastcgi socket "/run/gotweb.sock"
> 	}
> }
> 
> gotwebd.conf:
> 
> server "example.com" {
> 	repos_path "/git"
> 	gotweb_url_root "/gotweb"
> 	repos_url_path "/"  # example.com/gotweb/
> 	enable authentication
> 	permit anonymous
> }
> 
> gotsh would still return login URLs such as https://example.com/?login=token
> which result in "404 not found" from httpd.
> 
> 
> ok?

makes sense to me; ok op@

> Double-slashes are not a concern this time around since srv->gotweb_url_root
> is normalized to "/some/path" while parsing the configuration file (leading
> slash will be present, trailing slash won't be).
> 
> 
> M  gotwebd/login.c  |  15+  7-
> 
> 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> 
> commit - 222a9d10ecceca6ca66c57d1a0dc84d13f5a2047
> commit + 290598312f95a3869921f733a9b67cbe9a0bebf0
> blob - 05a894bc5a6b1fdebdf747acaf7d215b24352cbd
> blob + b951cb0492a42bb97681b5a7909f7ffb83f76726
> [...]