[fix] reverse proxy non-root url fix

1 files changed, 37 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/searx/webapp.py b/searx/webapp.py
index dbcbb4c0d..15f769a3b 100644
--- a/searx/webapp.py
+++ b/searx/webapp.py
@@ -781,10 +781,45 @@ def run():
     )
 
 
-application = app
+class ReverseProxyPathFix(object):
+    '''Wrap the application in this middleware and configure the
+    front-end server to add these headers, to let you quietly bind
+    this to a URL other than / and to an HTTP scheme that is
+    different than what is used locally.
+
+    http://flask.pocoo.org/snippets/35/
+
+    In nginx:
+    location /myprefix {
+        proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8000;
+        proxy_set_header Host $host;
+        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
+        proxy_set_header X-Scheme $scheme;
+        proxy_set_header X-Script-Name /myprefix;
+        }
+
+    :param app: the WSGI application
+    '''
+    def __init__(self, app):
+        self.app = app
+
+    def __call__(self, environ, start_response):
+        script_name = environ.get('HTTP_X_SCRIPT_NAME', '')
+        if script_name:
+            environ['SCRIPT_NAME'] = script_name
+            path_info = environ['PATH_INFO']
+            if path_info.startswith(script_name):
+                environ['PATH_INFO'] = path_info[len(script_name):]
+
+        scheme = environ.get('HTTP_X_SCHEME', '')
+        if scheme:
+            environ['wsgi.url_scheme'] = scheme
+        return self.app(environ, start_response)
 
-app.wsgi_app = ProxyFix(application.wsgi_app)
 
+application = app
+# patch app to handle non root url-s behind proxy & wsgi
+app.wsgi_app = ReverseProxyPathFix(ProxyFix(application.wsgi_app))
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     run()