My Webapp: Pointing domain to /public subfolder

[Nadine]

My YunoHost server

Hardware: VPS bought online
YunoHost version: 11.1.18
I have access to my server : Through SSH | through the webadmin
Are you in a special context or did you perform some particular tweaking on your YunoHost instance ? : no
If your request is related to an app, specify its name and version: my_webapp v1.0~ynh13

Description of my issue

I want to install LeanTime with My Webapp. LeanTime is a PHP based app using a MySQL database. I have set it up to run on https://business-suite.domain.tld/project-mgmt . However, after uploading all files via SFTP the domain needs to point to the /public directory which was created inside the www folder on the server. How do I achieve that? Any help much appreciated.

[tituspijean]

Hello, and welcome!

You will need to log into your server on SSH and to tweak the NGINX configuration file up to the liking of LeanTime. This file is located in /etc/nginx/conf.d/business-suite.domain.tld/my_webapp.conf.

You can use the nano editor for example: nano /etc/nginx/conf.d/business-suite.domain.tld/my_webapp.conf Edit the file then save with CTRL+O and quit with CTRL+X.

If the app is simple enough, I guess it is only a matter of tweaking the alias statement to add public/ at its end, before the semicolon.

Then test that NGINX is happy with it with nginx -t, and if no error arises, reload it with systemctl reload nginx.

[Nadine]

Hello,

Thank you for the warm welcome and the hints. I did as you said. Nginx test was fine I could successfully reload it. As there were some implications with hosting the app in a subfolder I changed my setup to hosting it via a subdomain. So, my new setup looks as follows:

Hosting domain (subdomain): project-mgmt.domain.tld
Folder structure: /www/leantime/public

According to Leantime’s docs the domain needs to point to the /public directory. I have another LeanTime instance, still running on a shared host (without Yunohost) and it works flawlessly there when pointing the domain to the /public directory.

However, I couldn’t get the app to run unfortunately. Here are the results:

1. Point alias to /public

alias /var/www/my_webapp/www/leantime/public/

This results first in a 303 redirect to /install which is correct as LeanTime wants to run the first-time installation. However, /install returns a 404 Not Found (nginx) error.

2. Point alias to /leantime

alias /var/www/my_webapp/www/leantime/

This results in a 403 Forbidden (nginx). However, I can see the Yunohost overlay in the bottom right corner here which was not the case with the other configurations.

Does anybody have any advice for me what I can do?

[Nadine]

For anybody else wanting to install LeanTime with My Webapp. I could solve the issue by adding 4 custom rewrite rules from the LeanTime nginx.excample.conf.

location / {

    rewrite ^/?$ /index.php?act=dashboard.show;
    rewrite ^/([^/\.]+)/?$ /index.php?act=$1;
    rewrite ^/([^/\.]+)/([^/\.]+)/?$ /index.php?act=$1.$2;
    rewrite ^/([^/\.]+)/([^/\.]+)/([^/\.]+)/?$ /index.php?act=$1.$2&id=$3;
  }

The alias needs to point to the /public directory as such

alias /var/www/my_webapp/www/leantime/public/;

With this configuration everything works fine. Thank you for pointing me in the right direction @tituspijean