Reverse Proxy

For production use, you should use a reverse proxy like nginx, traefik or Apache to serve the directory browser. This has many advantages, like SSL support, caching and more.

Here are some basic configurations for different reverse proxies. You may need to adjust them to your needs.

nginx

server {
  listen 80;
  listen 443 ssl;
  server_name domain.tld;

  location / {
    proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8080/;
  }

  ssl_certificate /path/to/cert.pem;
  ssl_certificate_key /path/to/cert.key;
}

Apache

<VirtualHost *:80>
  ServerName domain.tld

  ProxyPass / http://127.0.0.1:8080/
  ProxyPassReverse / http://127.0.0.1:8080/
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:443>
  ServerName domain.tld

  ProxyPass / http://127.0.0.1:8080/
  ProxyPassReverse / http://127.0.0.1:8080/

  SSLEngine on
  SSLCertificateFile cert.pem
  SSLCertificateKeyFile cert.key
</VirtualHost>

Subfolder/Different basepath

Since version 1.3.3 you can deploy the application to a different basepath/subfolder e.g. /foobar/ and all links, files and folders will be relative to this path.

Set the BASE_PATH environment variable to the subfolder you want to deploy the application to. For example:

docker run -d -p 8080:80 -e BASE_PATH="/foobar" -v /my/local/folder:/var/www/html/public:ro -v rdb:/var/lib/redis/ -it adrianschubek/dir-browser

And you may need to modify your reverse proxy configuration. In NGINX adapt the location block to the following:

  location /foobar/ {
    proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8080/;
  }

warning

Make sure to add the / at the end of the location line and after the proxy_pass URL. Otherwise the application will not work correctly.