electerious/Ackee

Make ackee loadable from subfolder/same host

Prophet-Phoenix opened this issue · 2 comments

Prophet-Phoenix commented

Hi there, i really like ackee for its clear visuals and simplicity. Also i can easily set it up with docker and reverse proxy.

🐣 Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

If i understand correctly, ackee can only be loaded from a different (sub)domain. For this to work, you need to setup headers etc. Also you need to open another https connection with handshake etc. which can be slowish. This is not a real problem because ackee.js loads asynchronous.

💡 Describe the solution you'd like

Configure ackee to be loadable from a subfolder. This is already doable e.g.

  • Main site hosted on example.com
  • ackee-docker reverse proxied on ackee.example.com
  • configure webserver to internally proxy example.com/ackee.js and example.com/api to same ackee-docker host as ackee.example.com.
  • embed script but change source from ackee.example.com/ackee.js to example.com/ackee.js
  • script is loaded and ackee counts visits on different hosts, but no second https connection is opened so site loads faster. Also i did not explicitly set up (cors-)headers for this and it still worked (with caddy http server)
  • ackee dashboard still reachable under ackee.example.com

I'm unsure if this breaks anything, because i couldn't find this setup in the docs. For me it is working.

📋 Additional context

This is surely more "nice to have" than a serious issue. Also maybe all of this already is implemented but i did not find it in the docs? Then please dismiss this request.

Greetings!

dodedodo commented

This issue was already raised in #227. Pull requests #288 and #317 both address this same issue, but have not been accepted yet.

Although this issue is a duplicate, I suggest keeping this one open because #227 is closed.

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sebastian-raubach commented

Are there any news on this front? Plausible currently has the same issue and I'm looking for an alternative that supports a base url. Unfortunately, ackee is in the same position as Plausible.
The reverse proxy along isn't enough as mentioned in #227 so something has to happen in the ackee codebase.