Change docroot in .env

[johnwbaxter]

I am trying to change the docroot of an existing devilbox in the .env file.

The docs say to change the value and restart devilbox which i have done. (docker-compose down and then up)

I had: HTTPD_DOCROOT_DIR=public
I want: HTTPD_DOCROOT_DIR=deploy/public

I seem to get this error in the output which i don't normally:

httpd_1 | vhostgen: [2018-03-09 14:36:32] Adding: localhost
httpd_1 | sed: -e expression #1, char 31: unknown option to `s'
devilbox_httpd_1 exited with code 1

[cytopia]

@johnwbaxter good catch, this is indeed an error with sed. I will fix this in the container.

Looking at your special case, I think it can be done more easily.
Keep HTTPD_DOCROOT_DIR at the default (htodcs). and simply simlink htdocs to deploy/public.

Have a look at the CakePHP setup at step 4: https://github.com/cytopia/devilbox/blob/master/docs/Examples.md#21-setup-cakephp

Let me know if this resolves your problem for now.

[johnwbaxter]

Ha! I didn't think about a symlink! Nice, i'll do just that :) Thanks!!

[johnwbaxter]

Hmm, not sure why, but my symlink isn't working here. Everything looks right, but, no luck. I'll just wait until you have a fix for this one and then go back to it.

[cytopia]

Hmm this should actually work as it is a standard feature and I do it all the time.

What OS are you on and can you also show me the symlink via ls -la and the error it throws when opening the project in the browser

[johnwbaxter]

I'm on OSX.
ls -la gives me:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 devilbox devilbox 33 Mar 11 12:43 public -> site2018/webroot/deploy/public/

And the error it gives is:

403 Forbidden
nginx/1.12.1

[cytopia]

And site2018/webroot/deploy/public/ site is in the same directory as the public dir?

Also by default the docroot name must be htdocs, did you change that to public?

[johnwbaxter]

I changed it to "public" in my .env originally so all projects use that folder name as the webroot.

See screenshot for the folder setup as that will explain better!

[cytopia]

Public needs to point to webroot/deploy/public/ and not to site2018/webroot/deploy/public/

[johnwbaxter]

I have changed it to that and still get the same error.

I ran ls-ls and get:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 devilbox devilbox 22 Mar 11 14:47 public -> webroot/deploy/public/

It's ok, i'll change my setup for now. Thanks!

[cytopia]

OK, one other thing that I see just now. Looks like your symlink is inside a directory called public, remove that directory and create the symlink on the same level as the rest:

ls -la
lrwxrwxrwx 1 devilbox devilbox 22 Mar 11 14:47 public -> webroot/deploy/public/
drwxrwxrwx 1 devilbox devilbox 22 Mar 11 14:47 webroot                                                                          

[cytopia]

You should use symlinks for this kind of stuff, because changing HTTPD_DOCROOT_DIR will change it globally for ALL projects

[johnwbaxter]

Yep, just caught that one myself!
All good now :D

Yep happy to use symlinks, but all my projects do follow the same directory structure, so it wouldn't have been an issue.

Thanks!!!!

[cytopia]

Fix is coming

• REL-0.13 Fix path replacement devilbox/docker-nginx-stable#7
• REL-0.13 Fix path replacement devilbox/docker-nginx-mainline#8
• REL-0.13 Fix path replacement devilbox/docker-apache-2.2#7
• REL-0.13 Fix path replacement devilbox/docker-apache-2.4#7

[johnwbaxter]

Cool, thanks again!