How to set Foxx App at server root?

Question

I was wondering how to set a Foxx app at the root of the sever/ip/domain name?

For example if my IP was 100.12.32.12 if I go to http://100.12.32.12 it'll open the single-page foxx app without URL redirection.

Things I've Tried

Currently I got Arangodb to use tcp://0.0.0.0:80 endpoint, so I got the port to work.
I also set up a index.html file in my app's manifest.json and mounted that app to /

However currently going to http://100.12.32.12 redirects me to http://107.170.131.61/_db/_system/index.html which works, but URL is changed.

Also http://100.12.32.12/index.html works, but I was wondering if it's possible to get http://100.12.32.12 to show the app without the redirect.
I've tried sudo arangod --javascript.app-path /path/to/app but that doesn't seem to work.

Thanks. I am new to Arangodb and Foxx.

Are you exposing ArangoDB directly to the NET or are using it behind a web-server like Apache? — fceller, May 13 '14 at 13:54
exposing it on port 80 ... I was hoping to only have to use Foxx/Arangodb for my spa — Quang Van, May 13 '14 at 17:36
@fceller thanks :) If this isn't intended use, I can keep arango on default port 8529, and fire up an express sever on port 80... — Quang Van, May 13 '14 at 21:14

fceller · Answer 1 · 2014-05-14T18:08:38.783

Can you try the following? Open an arangosh in a terminal window or go to the JS shell in the GUI.

arangosh [_system]> db._routing.save({ url: "/", priority: 1, action: {do: "org/arangodb/actions/redirectRequest", options: {permanently: true, destination: "/index.html" } } })
{ 
  "error" : false, 
  "_id" : "_routing/87048615", 
  "_rev" : "87048615", 
  "_key" : "87048615" 
}

Restart the server (it needs to reload the now routing). Clear/Restart the browser (for chrome you might need to forget the visited sites). Check using telnet

> telnet localhost 8529
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
GET / HTTP/1.1

HTTP/1.1 301 Moved
location: http://localhost:8529/index.html
server: ArangoDB
content-type: text/html
connection: Keep-Alive
content-length: 183

<html><head><title>Moved</title></head><body><h1>Moved</h1><p>This page has moved to <a href="http://localhost:8529/index.html">http://localhost:8529/index.html</a>.</p></body></html>

If you do not see the correct address, check if the document was created in _routing correctly.

Now check with the browser. If this still shows the wrong redirect, flush the browser cache.

thanks, the redirect works, but the URL still changes to index.html Is there anyway to not have the URL change? — Quang Van, May 14 '14 at 12:59
With ArangoDB 2.1 RC2 you will be able to do db._routing.save({ url: "/", priority: 1, action: {do: "org/arangodb/actions/rewriteRequest", options: {destination: "/index.html" } } }) Either use GITHUB or https://www.arangodb.org/download2 — fceller, May 14 '14 at 18:12

How to set Foxx App at server root?

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