[Help needed] Run without Docker

[prabapro]

Hi,

Can this be used as a standalone app without Docker? (I'm using Lamp stack)

Thanks

[Nikeev]

Hello!

Yes, it can be used without Docker.

Your Apache configuration should use public/ folder as web root. For more details about Apache configuring and .htaccess examples you could find here: https://symfony.com/doc/current/setup/web_server_configuration.html

For database setup just fill DATABASE_URL= in .env.local with your database credentials.

When it's done, you should run composer install, run migrations and create admin user.

[prabapro]

Hi @Nikeev ,

Thank you so much. Appreciate it.

[MaximilianKohler]

I'm not quite clear on the directions. For running without docker, it seems that we use the Shared Hosting https://sesdashboard.readthedocs.io/en/latest/install.html instructions.

I'm using centmin mod, and it installs a vhost to /home/nginx/domains/sesdashboard.mysite.com/. In that folder is a public, private, log, backup.

We cd to /home/nginx/domains/sesdashboard.mysite.com/public and then run Git clone https://github.com/Nikeev/sesdashboard.git or upload the source code .zip https://github.com/Nikeev/sesdashboard/releases so that it's /home/nginx/domains/sesdashboard.mysite.com/public/sesdashboard?

The installation docs say so your webserver should use /public/index.php and my /home/nginx/domains/sesdashboard.mysite.com/public/ doesn't have a index.php. It only has .html files. I saw a index.php file in /home/nginx/domains/sesdashboard.mysite.com/public/sesdashboard/public so am I supposed to be copying the contents of sesdashboard/public to /home/nginx/domains/sesdashboard.mysite.com/public/? That doesn't seem to be correct based on the other files & folders I'm seeing.

Oh, are we supposed to cd to /home/nginx/domains/sesdashboard.mysite.com/ before running git clone? So it would be /home/nginx/domains/sesdashboard.mysite.com/sesdashboard/public instead of /home/nginx/domains/sesdashboard.mysite.com/public/sesdashboard/public?

Or are we supposed to put all the contents of sesdashboard into /home/nginx/domains/sesdashboard.mysite.com/ so that the sesdashboard/public folder is merged with the existing public folder? And then we delete the empty /sesdashboard/ folder after moving all the contents?

Then we cd to /home/nginx/domains/sesdashboard.mysite.com/public/sesdashboard/ before running composer install right?

[Nikeev]

Hello,

it seems that sesdashboard.mysite.com points to /home/nginx/domains/sesdashboard.mysite.com/public folder. So you should unpack or git pull sesdashboard files this way:

/home/nginx/domains/sesdashboard.mysite.com/public (content of sesdashboard/public/ folder) /home/nginx/domains/sesdashboard.mysite.com/scr (content of sesdashboard/src/ folder) /home/nginx/domains/sesdashboard.mysite.com/templates (content of sesdashboard/templates/ folder) ... and so on.

So if you already have a public folder, you should replace its content with sesdashboard/public/

composer install you should run under /home/nginx/domains/sesdashboard.mysite.com/ /home/nginx/domains/sesdashboard.mysite.com/ $ composer install

[MaximilianKohler]

Ah, thank you. I was thinking that installing without docker would be lighter on system resources, but it seems that the non-docker install requires php composer which is resource intensive:

https://centminmod.com/install.html

12. If you plan on using PHP Composer for your web applications, you will want to have at least 3-4GB of memory on your server as Composer can use up to 1.5+ GB memory requirements itself and may require you raising the PHP memory_limit up to 1.5GB or more

So I'll just install docker and submit a PR to update the docs to note the Composer prerequisite.

[MaximilianKohler]

So you should unpack or git pull sesdashboard files this way:

The git clone command automatically makes a /home/nginx/domains/sesdashboard.mysite.com/sesdashboard/ directory instead of the correct /home/nginx/domains/sesdashboard.mysite.com/ way, so maybe the git clone command in the docs should be altered?