Fix group and project Vue apps when using relative_url_root

Peter Hegmanrequested to merge
556582-link-to-project-not-working-when-gitlab-hosted-in-subpath-after-upgrade-to-18-2 into master

What does this MR do and why?

Related to #556264 (closed) and #556582 (closed)

In !196877 (merged) we were trying to fix some issues that customers were having around absoulte URLs by switching to relative URLs. This unfortunately caused a new issue when using the relative_url_root setting.

This MR fixes the issue in the following places:

Bug in released %18.2

  • Your work -> Projects

Unreleased or still behind feature flags

  • Your work -> Groups
  • Admin -> Groups
  • Admin -> Projects

References

Screenshots or screen recordings

Your work -> Projects

Before After
Screenshot_2025-08-06_at_4.12.37_PM Screenshot_2025-08-06_at_4.06.57_PM

Your work -> Groups

Before After
Screenshot_2025-08-06_at_4.12.56_PM Screenshot_2025-08-06_at_4.07.13_PM

Admin -> Groups

Before After
Screenshot_2025-08-06_at_4.14.01_PM Screenshot_2025-08-06_at_4.07.48_PM

Admin -> Projects

Before After
Screenshot_2025-08-06_at_4.13.27_PM Screenshot_2025-08-06_at_4.08.21_PM

How to set up and validate locally

  1. Add relative_url_root: '/gitlab' to your gdk.yml file in the gitlab-development-kit directory
  2. Run gdk reconfigure
  3. Run gdk restart
  4. Go to /gitlab/dashboard/projects. URLs should work
  5. Go to /gitlab/dashboard/groups. URLs should work
  6. Go to /admin/groups. URLs should work
  7. Go to /admin/projects. URLs should work

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