[Buildbot-devel] [feature request] Support for baseurl on Waterfall

[Brian Warner]

>  What I want is to allow all links inside of the status page to use
>  the baseurl to request builds/project/... and then solve my problem.

Ah. The c['buildbotURL'] configuration key is intended to provide this
functionality. The sample.cfg file says:
  
  # the 'buildbotURL' string should point to the location where the buildbot's
  # internal web server (usually the html.Waterfall page) is visible. This
  # typically uses the port number set in the Waterfall 'status' entry, but
  # with an externally-visible host name which the buildbot cannot figure out
  # without some help.
  
  c['buildbotURL'] = "http://localhost:8010/"


However, the Waterfall display doesn't currently use it for anything. If I
remember right, we're using relative URLs everywhere to avoid these sorts of
behind-a-proxy problems (in particular the Twisted buildbot lives on a
web.distrib unix socket, the outside-world URL is
http://twistedmatrix.com/buildbot/ but the distrib_port string is like
~buildbot/.twistd-web-pb)

I think I wrote the code to use relative URLs, then added c['buildbotURL'] so
that in case we needed an absolute one, it would be available. (also so that
email or IRC status messages could point to a web page correctly). However
it's quite possible that I miseed something, that there's a link which starts
with a slash or something.

Which link on which page is breaking in your setup?

cheers,
 -Brian