Carotu

Carotu is a lightweight inventory system to keep track of your VPS and dedicated servers. The system is written in PHP language with Bootstrap 5 as the front-end framework.

I wrote this in my leisure time as a hobby. Please do not expect frequent updates. Any feature requests or bug reports can be submitted to here.

Demo

A demo page is available at https://demo.carotu.com/

Username: Carotu
Password: CarotuDemo#100

All records refreshed hourly.

Requirements

• PHP 8.0 and above
• SQLite PDO extension enabled
• Apache or Nginx web server

Apache vhost Example

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName      carotu.example.com
    DocumentRoot    /var/www/carotu.example.com

    <Directory /var/www/carotu.example.com>
        AllowOverride   All
        Options         Indexes FollowSymLinks
        Order           allow,deny
        Allow           From all
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:443>
    ServerName      carotu.example.com
    DocumentRoot    /var/www/carotu.example.com

    SSLEngine               On
    SSLCertificateFile      /etc/ssl/carotu.example.com.pem
    SSLCertificateKeyFile   /etc/ssl/carotu.example.com-key.pem

    <Directory /var/www/carotu.example.com>
        AllowOverride   All
        Options         Indexes FollowSymLinks
        Order           allow,deny
        Allow           From all
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

.htaccess

Options -Indexes
RewriteEngine on

<FilesMatch "\.(log|htaccess|sqlite)$">
  Require all denied
</FilesMatch>

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !=/favicon.ico
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php [L,QSA]

Nginx vhost Example

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name carotu.example.com;
    return 301 https://carotu.example.com$request_uri;
}

server {
    listen 443 ssl;
    server_name carotu.example.com;
    root /var/www/carotu.example.com;

    access_log /var/log/nginx/carotu.example.com-access.log;
    error_log /var/log/nginx/carotu.example.com-error.log;

    index index.php index.html;

    ssl_certificate /etc/ssl/carotu.example.com.pem;
    ssl_certificate_key /etc/ssl/carotu.example.com-key.pem;

    ssl_ciphers 'AES128+EECDH:AES128+EDH:!aNULL';

    ssl_protocols TLSv1.2;
    ssl_session_cache shared:SSL:10m;

    location ~ \.php$ {
        try_files   $uri =404;
        fastcgi_pass    127.0.0.1:9000;
        fastcgi_index   index.php;
        fastcgi_param   SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
        include     fastcgi_params;
    }

    # Protect log and database files
    location ~* \.(log|sqlite)$ {
        deny all;
    }

    location / {
        try_files $uri $uri/ @rewrite;
    }

    # Rewrite rules
    location @rewrite {
        rewrite ^/(.*)$ /index.php last;
    }

    # Error pages
    error_page 403 /403.html;
    error_page 404 /404.html;
    error_page 500 502 503 504 /50x.html;

    location = /403.html {
        root /var/www/carotu.example.com;
        internal;
    }

    location = /404.html {
        root /var/www/carotu.example.com;
        internal;
    }

    location = /50x.html {
        root /var/www/carotu.example.com;
        internal;
    }
}

Installation

1. Download the latest version from here.
2. Decompress the package and upload it to web server.
3. Access the system from web browser to continue the setup.

Screenshots