This doesn’t work with latest swagger UI. Also, people should be encouraged to update and build the swagger UI from source instead of relying on swagger-express to modify the default discovery URL.

Author: calmdev

lib/swagger-express/index.js

@@ -176,23 +176,6 @@ exports.init = function (app, opt) {
   // Serve up swagger ui at /swagger via static route
   var swHandler = express['static'](opt.swaggerUI);
 
-  // Overwrite swagger-ui discoveryUrl base on basePath
-  fs.readFile(opt.swaggerUI + '/index.html', function (err, data) {
-    if (err) {
-      return err;
-    }
-
-    var html = data.toString();
-    var regex = /discoveryUrl:(.*?),/;
-
-    html = html.replace(regex, 'discoveryUrl: "' + opt.basePath + '/api-docs.json",');
-
-    fs.writeFile(opt.swaggerUI + '/index.html', html, function (err) {
-      if (err) {
-        throw err;
-      }
-    });
-  });
   // Serve up swagger ui interface.
   var swaggerURL = new RegExp('^'+ opt.swaggerURL +'(\/.*)?$');