Hi! I want to self host lemmy on my homelab. I have a lot of services installed but only a couple of them are exposed on the internet using subpaths like host.com/plex or host.com/nextcloud.

I want to do the same with lemmy, so host.com/lemmy. Does lemmy support this particular URL configuration? Thank you!

  • SlashzeroEnglish
    6•2 years ago

    You might be able to setup a mod_rewrite rule to load a specific file path or other url based on the URL path, but a subdomain would probably be easier/cleaner.

    From Apache mod_rewrite docs:

    The mod_rewrite module uses a rule-based rewriting engine, based on a PCRE regular-expression parser, to rewrite requested URLs on the fly. By default, mod_rewrite maps a URL to a filesystem path. However, it can also be used to redirect one URL to another URL, or to invoke an internal proxy fetch.

    Just remember the old adage about regular expressions: when you use a regular expression to try to solve one problem, you create two problems.

    A subdomain would likely be cleaner and easier.