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[GH-ISSUE #158] [QUESTION] Nginx Configuration To Proxy Whoogle as A Subdirectory Cannot Find /config. How to handle this? #115

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opened 2026-02-25 20:34:56 +03:00 by kerem · 7 comments

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Originally created by @Saroufim on GitHub (Dec 11, 2020).
Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search/issues/158

Hello,
I'm running Whoogle as a subfolder on my site under /search/. At first, Whoogle wouldn't find its static files but then I explicitly used sub_filter to redirect it to the right path. Now Whoogle won't read its own configs from the same path and reverts back to looking for them on the main site, ignoring the sub_filter rule. What is the proper way to handle this with nginx?

Here's my conf:


location /search/   {
    include /config/nginx/proxy.conf
    sub_filter_once off;
    sub_filter '/static/' '/search/static/';
    sub_filter_types *;
    sub_filter "/config" "/search/config";
    proxy_pass http://0.0.0.0:5000/;
}

Originally created by @Saroufim on GitHub (Dec 11, 2020). Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search/issues/158 Hello, I'm running Whoogle as a subfolder on my site under /search/. At first, Whoogle wouldn't find its static files but then I explicitly used sub_filter to redirect it to the right path. Now Whoogle won't read its own configs from the same path and reverts back to looking for them on the main site, ignoring the sub_filter rule. What is the proper way to handle this with nginx? Here's my conf: ``` location /search/ { include /config/nginx/proxy.conf sub_filter_once off; sub_filter '/static/' '/search/static/'; sub_filter_types *; sub_filter "/config" "/search/config"; proxy_pass http://0.0.0.0:5000/; } ```

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@somebody-somewhere-over-the-rainbow commented on GitHub (Jan 23, 2021):

Not running whoogle on a subfolder myself but have you tried to add a rewrite like this to the location block:

rewrite ^/search/(.*)$ /$1 break;

@somebody-somewhere-over-the-rainbow commented on GitHub (Jan 23, 2021): Not running whoogle on a subfolder myself but have you tried to add a rewrite like this to the location block: ` rewrite ^/search/(.*)$ /$1 break;`

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@maaAnandsheela commented on GitHub (Jan 30, 2021):

    location /search {
           rewrite /search/(.*) /$1 break;
           proxy_pass http://0.0.0.0:5000/;
           proxy_redirect     off;
            proxy_set_header Host $host;
           proxy_http_version 1.1;
         proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;

}

This should work.

@maaAnandsheela commented on GitHub (Jan 30, 2021): location /search { rewrite /search/(.*) /$1 break; proxy_pass http://0.0.0.0:5000/; proxy_redirect off; proxy_set_header Host $host; proxy_http_version 1.1; proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for; } This should work.

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@somebody-somewhere-over-the-rainbow commented on GitHub (Jan 30, 2021):

it tried this just for fun and it given (at least) me a white, empty page

@somebody-somewhere-over-the-rainbow commented on GitHub (Jan 30, 2021): it tried this just for fun and it given (at least) me a white, empty page

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@maaAnandsheela commented on GitHub (Feb 4, 2021):

maybe there should be some error.

@maaAnandsheela commented on GitHub (Feb 4, 2021): maybe there should be some error.

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@looi-wh commented on GitHub (Jun 22, 2021):

hi. tho its abit late, but I have solved this issue somehow as i was setting up whoogle for myself

location /google {
    return 302 $scheme://$host/google/;
}
location /google/ {
    sub_filter_once off;
    sub_filter 'https://domain.com' 'https://domain.com/google/';
    proxy_pass http://0.0.0.0:5000/;
}

@looi-wh commented on GitHub (Jun 22, 2021): hi. tho its abit late, but I have solved this issue somehow as i was setting up whoogle for myself ``` location /google { return 302 $scheme://$host/google/; } location /google/ { sub_filter_once off; sub_filter 'https://domain.com' 'https://domain.com/google/'; proxy_pass http://0.0.0.0:5000/; } ```

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@cs01 commented on GitHub (Sep 1, 2021):

hi. tho its abit late, but I have solved this issue somehow as i was setting up whoogle for myself
location /google {
    return 302 $scheme://$host/google/;
}
location /google/ {
    sub_filter_once off;
    sub_filter 'https://domain.com' 'https://domain.com/google/';
    proxy_pass http://0.0.0.0:5000/;
}

I spent more time than I want to admit trying to solve this. I thought WHOOGLE_CONFIG_URL might work but it didn't, but the above worked perfectly.

It might be helpful to others to add the above config to the README since it's probably a fairly common setup.

@cs01 commented on GitHub (Sep 1, 2021): > hi. tho its abit late, but I have solved this issue somehow as i was setting up whoogle for myself > > ``` > location /google { > return 302 $scheme://$host/google/; > } > location /google/ { > sub_filter_once off; > sub_filter 'https://domain.com' 'https://domain.com/google/'; > proxy_pass http://0.0.0.0:5000/; > } > ``` I spent more time than I want to admit trying to solve this. I thought `WHOOGLE_CONFIG_URL` might work but it didn't, but the above worked perfectly. It might be helpful to others to add the above config to the README since it's probably a fairly common setup.

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@caio1007 commented on GitHub (Mar 5, 2023):

hi. tho its abit late, but I have solved this issue somehow as i was setting up whoogle for myself
location /google {
    return 302 $scheme://$host/google/;
}
location /google/ {
    sub_filter_once off;
    sub_filter 'https://domain.com' 'https://domain.com/google/';
    proxy_pass http://0.0.0.0:5000/;
}

this code is giving me an error in nginx

@caio1007 commented on GitHub (Mar 5, 2023): > hi. tho its abit late, but I have solved this issue somehow as i was setting up whoogle for myself > > ``` > location /google { > return 302 $scheme://$host/google/; > } > location /google/ { > sub_filter_once off; > sub_filter 'https://domain.com' 'https://domain.com/google/'; > proxy_pass http://0.0.0.0:5000/; > } > ``` this code is giving me an error in nginx

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[PR #116] [MERGED] v0.2.1 #791