feat: add runtime base path support - #3405
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Included review availability: Your plan includes up to 10 reviews per rolling hour; 6 remain after this review. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughAdds configurable runtime base-path support across server routing, client navigation, page data loading, settings, static assets, service-worker resources, notification actions, and reverse-proxy deployment. ChangesConfigurable base-path support
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to Saving Network settings may leave the displayed update status stale when update checks are enabled because the relevant status is not refreshed by the save flow. This is a bounded UI correctness issue and the PR is mergeable with explicit owner awareness or follow-up. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Administrator
participant SettingsBasePath
participant Express
participant NextJS
participant Browser
Administrator->>SettingsBasePath: Save configured base path
SettingsBasePath->>Express: Submit network settings
Express->>Express: Validate and normalize base path
Express-->>SettingsBasePath: Return updated settings
Browser->>NextJS: Request prefixed application URL
NextJS->>Express: Route request through scoped application router
Express-->>Browser: Return page or API response
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In `@server/utils/basePath.ts`:
- Around line 6-37: Update getRuntimeBasePath to validate the normalized base
path and reject any value containing "." or ".." path segments before returning
it, including values supplied through SEERR_BASE_PATH; preserve the existing
empty-path fallback and stored-settings behavior.
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In `@src/components/Settings/SettingsNetwork/index.tsx`:
- Line 178: Update the mutate call in the VersionStatus-related flow to
invalidate the status cache key matching the active versionCheck value, so true
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Invalidate the active status cache key.
When versionCheck is true, VersionStatus reads /api/v1/status?checkUpdateAvailable=true, but this line always mutates the false key. Use the active versionCheck value or centralize status-key construction.
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In `@src/components/Settings/SettingsNetwork/index.tsx` at line 178, Update the
mutate call in the VersionStatus-related flow to invalidate the status cache key
matching the active versionCheck value, so true uses the true query parameter
and false uses the false query parameter. Reuse the existing status-key
construction or derive the key from versionCheck instead of hardcoding the false
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Closing this. Per our AI Assistance Notice, this is AI-driven development, not AI-assisted, and disclosing that plainly does not change which bucket it falls into. And you said it yourself, you don't know TypeScript or JavaScript, you didn't write this, and you can't write the 600 lines you're asking us to review. Running the build and clicking around your own homelab instance is not the same as reviewing the code. It means you verified behavior, not that you understood or can stand behind the implementation, which is what the policy actually requires. The implementation itself reinforces that as well. This entire implementation isn't clean at all, and it's a stack of hacky workarounds that were just band-aided on because you couldn't get it to work. For example:
The entire implementation is a monkey-patched, hacky bandaid. It's making global changes to work around limitations, and that's the kind of thing that can destabilize the codebase, introduce hard-to-debug breaking bugs, and become a maintenance nightmare down the line. None of this is something a maintainer can reasonably sign off on, and by your own admission, it's not something you can defend if asked about it. This gets closed under the policy regardless of how much testing was done. If someone is implementing a feature or fix for the project, they need to understand and be able to own the code they're putting in front of us. We can't reasonably review and maintain code that the author can't explain or defend themselves, regardless of how thoroughly they tested the resulting behavior. Relaying hundreds of debugging iterations from ChatGPT and calling the result “tested” doesn't change that. It's disrespectful to the maintainers who are expected to spend their time reviewing, debugging, and maintaining code they didn't write and the author can't explain. |
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AI disclosure
Full disclosure: I do not know TypeScript, or really JavaScript in general. I have tried learning it before, but there appears to be some fundamental compatibility issue between JavaScript and my brain, so we have mostly agreed to keep our distance.
I can usually follow the broader intent of code while reading it, but actually writing and debugging JS/TS myself turns into frustration pretty quickly.
Because of that, I am not going to pretend this was a normal contribution where I personally sat down and authored the implementation.
This feature was developed with substantial assistance from ChatGPT (GPT-5.6 Sol, High reasoning effort) over a long, iterative debugging and testing session.
ChatGPT inspected the Seerr codebase, proposed and modified the implementation, helped diagnose build/runtime failures, and later audited the result for additional places that were still assuming Seerr lived at
/.My part was mainly to:
The implementation itself was therefore primarily produced with AI assistance rather than manually written by me.
This was not a one-shot generated patch. It went through a fairly ridiculous number of typecheck, lint, test, build, Docker, browser, reverse-proxy, routing, hydration, dynamic-route, and hard-coded-path debugging cycles before reaching the current version.
I also want to be clear that I understand the overall architecture and the problems we ran into, but I am not going to claim I could have written all 600+ lines of TypeScript from scratch myself.
This PR description has also been AI-assisted. I wrote the original version and then used ChatGPT to help trim it, correct factual mistakes, and make it less of a wall of text.
I am aware that the extent of AI involvement here may put this contribution outside the project's AI-assisted contribution policy. I would rather say that plainly than try to wordsmith around it.
I am submitting it because base-path support has been requested for years, the implementation is working on my actual homelab, and it has been tested far beyond just "it compiled on my machine."
If the maintainers decide it is better treated as a reference implementation rather than something mergeable as-is, that is fair.
Description
Adds runtime base path support so Seerr can be hosted under a URL path such as
/seerrwithout requiring the reverse proxy to strip the prefix, rewrite responses, or use a separately built image for each path.The runtime base path can be configured using:
SEERR_BASE_PATHSEERR_BASE_PATHtakes precedence over the persisted setting when both are configured.The same Docker image can therefore run at
/,/seerr, or another supported path without being rebuilt.The implementation makes the parts of Seerr that previously assumed
/aware of the configured runtime path, including:next/routernavigationNext.js' native
basePathsetting is not used because it is compiled into the frontend at build time.Instead, Seerr sets its asset prefix at runtime and keeps Next.js' internal routes root-relative while exposing the configured prefix in browser-visible URLs.
The production Next.js build currently uses webpack instead of Turbopack for this because webpack allows the chunk public path to be changed at runtime. During testing, Turbopack could successfully serve JavaScript from the prefixed URL while still failing hydration because its chunk identity retained the build-time path.
The reverse proxy must preserve the prefix when forwarding requests to Seerr.
How Has This Been Tested?
Testing was performed locally against the feature branch and the resulting image is also currently running as my actual Seerr instance.
I plan to keep using it there unless I run into something that requires switching back.
Static validation
The following all passed:
pnpm typecheckpnpm format:checkpnpm lintpnpm testpnpm buildgit diff --checkLint completed with:
Tests completed with:
The branch was rebased onto the latest
developimmediately before submitting this PR and the full validation chain above was run again afterward.Translation validation
pnpm i18n:extractwas run during development and the generated frontend locale changes were checked.The translation keys for the URL Base setting are included in this PR.
Docker / runtime testing
A generic production Docker image was built without compiling a base path into it.
The same image was tested at:
//seerr/foobar/poop_aids_final_finalYes, the last test path was deliberately stupid. The point was to make sure this actually worked with an arbitrary path and not just
/seerr.No rebuild was required when changing between them.
Runtime testing included:
SEERR_BASE_PATHoverride behaviorClient-side navigation was specifically checked using both normal links and imperative router navigation.
Dynamic movie/TV routes were also checked to make sure browser URLs contained the actual IDs rather than escaped route placeholders such as
[movieId]or[tvId].Server-side validation
The Network settings API was tested directly with an invalid base path:
{ "basePath": "/this is invalid" }The API returned HTTP 400:
{ "message": "Invalid URL base path." }The stored base path remained unchanged after the rejected request.
Reverse proxy deployment
The feature image is currently running as my actual Seerr instance behind Caddy under:
The proxy preserves the prefix when forwarding requests to Seerr.
There is no response rewriting and the prefix is not stripped.
Screenshots / Logs (if applicable)
The visible UI addition is the URL Base setting under Settings → Network. Most of the rest of this change affects routing and deployment behavior rather than the UI.
Checklist:
pnpm buildpnpm i18n:extractSummary by CodeRabbit
New Features
Bug Fixes