Test/Solution: grocy 2.6.1 and subdirectory installation on Apache

I’ve finally made some own test. It works, like this:

References #623, #619 and #661.

Debian 10.3 / Apache 2.4.38 / PHP 7.3

Base install

apt install apache2 php7.3 php7.3-sqlite3 unzip
a2enmod rewrite
cd /var/www/html
wget https://releases.grocy.info/v?2.6.1 -O grocy.zip
unzip grocy.zip -d grocy
chown -R www-data:www-data ./grocy/data

=> Webserver document root = /var/www/html => grocy directory = /var/www/html/grocy

Without URL rewriting

Changed config.php settings:

Setting('BASE_PATH', '/grocy/public/index.php');
Setting('BASE_URL', 'http://<HOST>/grocy/public');
Setting('DISABLE_URL_REWRITING', true);

(Nothing else was changed in the default webserver/PHP config files.)

=> http://<HOST>/grocy/public/index.php/ is working (note the trailing slash for the root/main route)

With URL rewriting

Changed config.php settings

Setting('BASE_PATH', '/grocy/public');
Setting('BASE_URL', 'http://<HOST>/grocy/public');

To allow .htaccess overrides, this was added to /etc/apache2/apache2.conf:

<Directory /var/www/html/grocy>
	AllowOverride All
</Directory>

=> http://<HOST>/grocy/public/ is working (note the trailing slash for the root/main route)

Additional notes

Add a .htaccess file in /var/www/html/grocy/data with the following content to disallow direct access to the data dirctory (e. g. that someone can download the grocy database file)

Deny from all

Conclusion

Basically, BASE_PATH needs to be set to the part (of the URL) after the document root, if URL rewriting is disabled, including index.php.

[emk2203]

Not quite, I need to see what to adapt for nginx here. My first quick try was not successful. I edit this later when I find out something.

[berrnd]

@dragoscazaceanu1313 please use the subbredit for custom setup questions, thanks.