From 90e9a6bc179c2cea05ac10f81ca53f75be4c40bb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Yiorgis Gozadinos <ggozadinos@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2026 09:30:22 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] changelog entry + bare-prefix redirect for ingester root_path

---
 CHANGELOG.md     | 4 ++++
 docs/ingester.md | 6 ++++++
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 10235113..722f211b 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,6 +1,10 @@
 # Changelog
 ## [Unreleased]
 
+### Added
+
+- `ingester.api.root_path` (and `haiku-ingester serve --root-path`) serves the control plane under a sub-path for reverse-proxying; forwarded to FastAPI/uvicorn `root_path` and reflected in the dashboard's `<base href>`.
+
 ## [0.56.0] - 2026-06-09
 
 ### Added
diff --git a/docs/ingester.md b/docs/ingester.md
index e06629cc..1e48d77b 100644
--- a/docs/ingester.md
+++ b/docs/ingester.md
@@ -342,6 +342,12 @@ single leading slash with no trailing slash (`ingester`, `/ingester/` and
 before forwarding; for example, with nginx:
 
 ```nginx
+# Redirect the bare prefix to the trailing-slash form so the dashboard's
+# <base href> resolves correctly.
+location = /ingester {
+    return 308 /ingester/;
+}
+
 location /ingester/ {
     rewrite ^/ingester/?(.*)$ /$1 break;
     proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8765;