From 8a139ac939aa44ba4971809c550749f8139cfea5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Simon Michael <simon@joyful.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2023 14:06:51 -1000
Subject: [PATCH] ;doc: web: improve --base-url description (#1562)

---
 hledger-web/hledger-web.m4.md | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/hledger-web/hledger-web.m4.md b/hledger-web/hledger-web.m4.md
index 7ed90c099..5eed2114d 100644
--- a/hledger-web/hledger-web.m4.md
+++ b/hledger-web/hledger-web.m4.md
@@ -90,7 +90,8 @@ as shown in the synopsis above.
 
 `--base-url=URL`
 : set the base url (default: http://IPADDR:PORT).
-You would change this when sharing over the network, or integrating within a larger website.
+Note: affects url generation but not route parsing.
+Can be useful if running behind a reverse web proxy that does path rewriting.
 
 `--file-url=URL`
 : set the static files url (default: BASEURL/static).