Mini dashboard does not work on meilisearch running on sub routes about mini-dashboard

[urbantrout]

I have adopted @firstred’s answer for nginx:

location /search {
  rewrite /search/(.*) /$1 break;
  proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:7700;
}

location / {
  if ($http_referer ~* ^.*/search/.*$ ) {
    proxy_pass  http://127.0.0.1:7700;
  }
}

[firstred]

Not sure yet what the nginx equivalent is, but I managed to solve the problem with Caddy by matching the Referer header.
If the request's Referer header contains /search/, it will strip /search from the path and effectively serve css js etc. from root.

route {
  ##### Ensure trailing slash
  redir /search /search/

  ##### Serve Meilisearch from a subfolder, by matching the path
  @meilisearch path /search/*
  ##### Serve assets from the subfolder, by matching the HTTP Referer header
  @meilisearch_assets header Referer */search/*

  handle @meilisearch {
    uri strip_prefix /search
    header X-Forwarded-Proto {scheme}
    header X-Forwarded-Host {host}
    reverse_proxy meilisearch:7700
  }

  handle @meilisearch_assets {
    uri strip_prefix /search
    header X-Forwarded-Proto {scheme}
    header X-Forwarded-Host {host}
    reverse_proxy meilisearch:7700
  }
}

[bidoubiwa]

I'm not sure this is something we want as a curl on /search I think would return the HTML page. Though I'm sure there is a solution I don't have the required knowledge to play with path and redirections.

[firstred]

Great! @urbantrout thanks a lot for sharing the nginx version!

[mskyttner]

Related meilisearch/product#295

[gmourier]

Do we have any news on this? It looks like a bug fix more than a new feature to me.

The problem with changing to href is that now the mini dashboard is accessible on every sub-route on not only the root of the meilisearch instance.

@bidoubiwa This is the most direct solution but do we have another one at hand?

[mdubus]

Thanks a lot for your answers and suggestions 🙏

I'll now close this issue as this can be fixed with the nginx configuration.

Have a nice day ☀️