Is there a way to bypass the verification on baseUrl or get it to use a different path for verification?

[jpierson-at-riis]

I'm running into a problem with an application which does not serve any response on the baseUrl (ex. http://localhost:8080). Instead the application is served from http://localhost:8080/my-app/somepage.html. Due to the normally helpful checks that Cypress does however to see if the server specified by baseUrl is reachable may tests fail to start and I get the following type of error message.

Cypress could not verify that this server is running:

  > http://localhost:8080

We are verifying this server because it has been configured as your baseUrl.

Cypress automatically waits until your server is accessible before running tests.

We will try connecting to it 3 more times...
We will try connecting to it 2 more times...
We will try connecting to it 1 more time...

Cypress failed to verify that your server is running.

Please start this server and then run Cypress again.

It is expected behavior for my application that a request to http://localhost:8080 would return a 404 status. How do I proceed to use Cypress without modifying how my application works?