Setting web_path results in 404 after setup

[calebjones]

Docker Compose:

version: '3'

services:
  ampache:
    image: ampache/ampache:nosql
    container_name: ampache
    restart: unless-stopped
    ports:
      - 8080:80
    volumes:
      - /host/path/to/music:/media
    extra_hosts:
      - "host.docker.internal:host-gateway"

Startup command:

docker compose up -d

Database connects properly to my host and I am able to have this work (build catalog, stream music, etc) without setting web_path in the setup web UI.

However, if I set the web_path in the web UI to (for example) /ampache, after the setup completes it only ever returns 404 for /ampache (also tried /ampache/index.php or /ampache/login.php).

Going to / redirects (302) to /ampache/login.php which 404s.

[lachlan-00]

are you proxying the container to be /ampache through something like nginx/etc?

The container is set to the / path on the webroot you would probably need the local_web_path set as well depending on your setup.

There are some issues with docker/proxying that i'll have a search for and see if there's anything in the wiki. cause i'm sure we've had this issue with people before

[calebjones]

I'm not proxying yet, just testing directly. But I'm planning to proxy via either caddy or apache.

I'll check local_web_path.

[calebjones]

config/ampache.cfg.php has these web_path values:

web_path = "/ampache"
;local_web_path = "http://localhost/ampache"

Adding local_web_path = "http://localhost/ampache" (uncommented) to the config file doesn't fix things.

[calebjones]

I found a way to fix the 404, but I'm not sure how to fold this into the container so you can easily deploy a new container.

I ended up appending the following to /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/001-ampache.conf:

Alias /ampache "/var/www/public"

The issue is that docker can't know what the alias will be until after the initial ampache setup in the web UI.

[calebjones]

I'd recommend adding a docker environment variable that can be passed into the docker command or set in docker-compose.yml to ensure this Alias is set.

... unless I'm missing something and there's a better way to do this. But on my previous installation (that I'm migrating from) Alias is how I set this up.

[calebjones]

I tried to get this baked into my docker compose file, but kept running into issues. So my solution is to script this so after a docker compose up command I can run this:

docker cp 002-install-path.conf ampache:/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/
docker exec ampache /etc/init.d/apache2 reload

Where 002-install-path.conf just contains this line:

Alias /ampache "/var/www/public"