Setting a base url for urls generated by Spring

We've got a restful api running using spring which generates HATEOAS links. When I run the service locally, they are generated fine, but on our server, which hosts tomcat behind apache which proxies the app to /api/ (locally it's just run on /), the urls are still generated like the app is run on /.

Is there any way to tell spring to use a base url when generating these?

What is base URL in URL?

The URL found in the address bar of the front page of a website is its base URL. In other words, the common prefix found while navigating inside a given website is known as the base URL. One can select a base URL from the list of those available with help of the URL general properties page.

I've figured out my problem. Spring wasn't at fault. When building links, spring uses the X-Forwarded-Host, X-Forwarded-Ssl, etc. and, since 4.1.3, X-Forwarded-Prefix to correctly build urls that will be forwarded by a proxy. This last one however, is not automatically set by apache when proxying, so installing mod_headers and adding RequestHeader set X-Forwarded-Prefix "api"to my LocationMatch directive solved everything.