An option to set the base-href

[zshlomyz]

Hi,
I want to configure the http-server to listen to a URL that contain a virtual, like:
http://localhost:<port>/<virtual-path>.
I can't find a way to doing that using the available options.
Is anyone know a way to do that?
Thanks

[thornjad]

I don't think I'm understanding what you'd like to do. Are you wanting to serve files in a way where you would go to http://localhost:/. in the browser? Or are you wanting to serve a file called .?

[zshlomyz]

Hi @thornjad , There was a problem with my question.
I fix that. I'll be happy if you can have another look to try help me.
Thanks

[thornjad]

What do you mean by virtual path? Are you wanting to be able to request something like /foo/bar even when the foo/bar file doesn't exist?

[zshlomyz]

What I want is to configure the http-server to respond to http://localhost:5000/foo the same as if the request was http://localhost:5000.
For example:

• GET http://localhost:5000/foo - the response will be the index.html file from the static files folder.
• GET http://localhost:5000/foo/bar.css - the respond will be the bar.css file from the static files folder.

[thornjad]

Would you be able to achieve the same by simply putting all your files into a directory called "foo"? ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐

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[zshlomyz]

No. There is any rewrite option that can help me?

[peterjhart]

@zshlomyz See #542, #318

[culmat]

this seems to be a duplicate of #294

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[thornjad]

I'm considering this a duplicate of #139, please reopen if I've misunderstood the request

[sneakers-the-rat]

I think this is a different thing than #139, as I just came across it -- for example jekyll lets you set a baseurl configuration option for pages that are built and served from subdirectories of a website.

For example if one had their blog at https://mainurl.com/subpage/blog then all the local links within the page will be, eg <script src='/subpage/blog/asset.js'/> even though you may be building into a temporary _site directory.

So currently, one could go into the _site directory and do http-server and get the html index.html file served correctly, but since all the local links to eg. js and css are /subpage/blog/... then you get 404's for all of them.

Jekyll's server rewrites the url so that going to localhost:port/subpage/blog serves all the content from the _site root (so you don't need to build into artificial subdirectories)

webpack does something similar, so this would be very helpful for independent testing of bundled sites like that <3

[AnderssonPeter]

I'm guessing what they need is the ability to add a virtual folder that doesn't exist on disk.

So lets say I start http-server normally then requests to http://localhost/text.txt would go to ./text.txt but if I add this parameter with the value /content/ then I must request http://localhost/content/text.txt to get the same file, if i make any request without /content/ I should get a 404.

In both cases the file is in the same path on disk but the path of the http request changes accordingly to the parameter, this is useful for angular applications where the base-href is set.

ng serve has the parameter --serve-path for this functionality.

[it180171]

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