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1.6.0: Health and Redirects

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@Cellivar Cellivar released this 18 Mar 05:19

Two major features:

  1. A proper healthcheck endpoint at /_/health for some proper healthchecks.
  2. When running behind a proxy the API and UI will automatically redirect requests to the hostname of your choice.

When you're running NetGoLynx behind a cluster of some sort it's very likely you'll be using both http://go/ and https://go.yourcompany.com as valid URLs for the server. It's also pretty likely that your GitHub or Okta login configuration will only work for https://go.yourcompany.com, even though users might attempt to log into the site at http://go/. In my experience this was a pretty good source of confusion.

The documentation now has information for configuring a known correct hostname so that users trying to hit the UI or API will be redirected to the URL of your choosing. This won't affect regular redirects, so http://go/wiki will still just immediately resolve to the wiki link, while http://go/ will redirect to https://go.yourcompany.com. You get performance and a better user experience at the same time!

Has your Security team grumbled about users using non-HTTPS links? Good news, you can avoid sending the raw http request at all by using the NetGoLynx Chrome Extension!