No option to disable port appending when developing site on environment with a reverse proxy

[ProximaB]

Bug Report

When using cloud development environment like gitpod.io, it allows exposing your ports via public links, behind the scene it uses a reverse proxy, that translate e.g. localhost:1234 into 1234-devenv.gitpod.io. That causes a problem because zola generated URLs that have port appended to it 1234-devenv.gitpod.io:1234/..., that of course makes the address invalid in that scenario. The resolution would be an ability to disable that behave with a flag on a serve command --appendPort=false. Hugo also support that option gohugoio/.../server.go

Environment

Zola version: 0.16.1

Expected Behavior

Do not append port to urls when requested.
Expected script to run on gitpod zola serve -p 1313 -i 0.0.0.0 -u $(gp url 1313) --appendPort false

Current Behavior

Appending ports behind gitpod reverse proxy makes URL invalid.

Step to reproduce

Open new workspace on gitpod.io (it's free), install zola with brew, init new zola project, zola serve -p 1313 -i 0.0.0.0 -u $(gp url 1313) --appendPort false

[ffrizzo]

#2003

[Keats]

If the option is only ever used for the negation, it makes more sense to have zola serve --no-port-appending instead (or whatever name is better)

[ProximaB]

That’s true, but setting the parameter should be possible also through configuration.
Adding property to yaml appendPort: false seems to be follow current convention of sharing same names. But indeed it looks better for cli use

[Keats]

but setting the parameter should be possible also through configuration.

It's not the case in zola. An option only for use in zola serve will not be available from the config file.

[ProximaB]

I agree with you, it’s not the case with Zola. it’s has much more sense to use no-port-appending than appendPort with default true.

[ffrizzo]

Interesting discussion. So we can tell the best option is to use --no-port-append?

[ProximaB]

Yes, I think we have reached a consensus --no-port-append. Now It depends if it's ok with you and other contributors.

[ffrizzo]

Sounds good to me. I will make propper changes on my PR