Sunday 9 November 2014

haste-server Base URL Hack/Patch

Recently I came across haste-server, a server behind hastebin, which is a pastebin clone written in node.js. The application is minimalistic, fairly simple and works really well, except for one rather major glitch - it takes over the root directory of the whole website.

I've noticed that several people raised an issue on GitHub asking the author for help, but so far nobody shared fully working solution. Some people tried to work reverse proxy magi, others tried to patch the code - with moderate success. Instead of adding to the problem area I thought I'll try to offer a solution - keep in mind I don't know JavaScript ;-)