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  • bandtank
    Active Community Member
    • Mar 2017
    • 411
    #1

    Adding /public in Apache configuration causes client/ to become inaccessible.

    I am attempting to use a local installation of Espo from the repo to make a pull request for a new feature. The webserver is Apache 2.4.58 and espo is the latest version (8.1.1). For testing purposes, I created two vhost configurations:

    Code:
    <VirtualHost *:8081>
    DocumentRoot /var/www/espocrm-fork/build/EspoCRM-8.1.1/
    Alias /client/ /var/www/espocrm-fork/build/EspoCRM-8.1.1/client/
    ServerName espocrm-fork

    <Directory /var/www/espocrm-fork/build/EspoCRM-8.1.1/>
      AllowOverride all
      Require all granted
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:8081>
    DocumentRoot /var/www/espocrm-fork/build/EspoCRM-8.1.1/public/
    Alias /client/ /var/www/espocrm-fork/build/EspoCRM-8.1.1/client/
    ServerName espocrm-fork-public

    <Directory /var/www/espocrm-fork/build/EspoCRM-8.1.1/public/>
      AllowOverride all
      Require all granted
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>​
    Note: I had to add Require all granted to make it work. Otherwise, Apache would not serve anything at all for the repo. ("Forbidden ...")



    Accessing the first site (without /public) works as expected:

    http://espocrm-fork:8081/install/
    Code:
    127.0.0.1 - - [26/Jan/2024:11:33:07 -0700] "GET /install/ HTTP/1.1" 200 25093 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/120.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"
127.0.0.1 - - [26/Jan/2024:11:33:07 -0700] "GET /client/lib/espo.js HTTP/1.1" 200 1331791 "http://espocrm-fork:8081/install/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/120.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"
127.0.0.1 - - [26/Jan/2024:11:33:07 -0700] "GET /install/css/install.css HTTP/1.1" 200 2491 "http://espocrm-fork:8081/install/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/120.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"
127.0.0.1 - - [26/Jan/2024:11:33:07 -0700] "GET /client/lib/espo-main.js HTTP/1.1" 200 980081 "http://espocrm-fork:8081/install/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/120.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"
127.0.0.1 - - [26/Jan/2024:11:33:07 -0700] "GET /install/js/install.js HTTP/1.1" 200 21020 "http://espocrm-fork:8081/install/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/120.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"
127.0.0.1 - - [26/Jan/2024:11:33:07 -0700] "GET /client/css/espo/violet.css HTTP/1.1" 200 474209 "http://espocrm-fork:8081/install/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/120.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"
127.0.0.1 - - [26/Jan/2024:11:33:07 -0700] "GET /client/img/logo.svg HTTP/1.1" 200 4432 "http://espocrm-fork:8081/install/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/120.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"
127.0.0.1 - - [26/Jan/2024:11:33:07 -0700] "GET /install/img/devices.png HTTP/1.1" 200 175349 "http://espocrm-fork:8081/install/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/120.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"
127.0.0.1 - - [26/Jan/2024:11:33:07 -0700] "GET /client/fonts/open-sans/open-sans-v16-cyrillic_latin_cyrillic-ext_latin-ext-600.woff2 HTTP/1.1" 200 44936 "http://espocrm-fork:8081/client/css/espo/violet.css" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/120.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"
127.0.0.1 - - [26/Jan/2024:11:33:07 -0700] "GET /client/img/favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 200 1406 "http://espocrm-fork:8081/install/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/120.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"​
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    Accessing the second site (with /public) does not work. Every request to client/ returns a 403:

    http://espocrm-fork-public:8081/install/​
    Code:
    127.0.0.1 - - [26/Jan/2024:11:33:22 -0700] "GET /install/ HTTP/1.1" 200 25093 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/120.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"
127.0.0.1 - - [26/Jan/2024:11:33:22 -0700] "GET /client/lib/espo.js HTTP/1.1" 403 199 "http://espocrm-fork-public:8081/install/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/120.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"
127.0.0.1 - - [26/Jan/2024:11:33:22 -0700] "GET /client/css/espo/violet.css HTTP/1.1" 403 199 "http://espocrm-fork-public:8081/install/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/120.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"
127.0.0.1 - - [26/Jan/2024:11:33:22 -0700] "GET /client/lib/espo-main.js HTTP/1.1" 403 199 "http://espocrm-fork-public:8081/install/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/120.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"
127.0.0.1 - - [26/Jan/2024:11:33:22 -0700] "GET /client/img/logo.svg HTTP/1.1" 403 199 "http://espocrm-fork-public:8081/install/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/120.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"
127.0.0.1 - - [26/Jan/2024:11:33:22 -0700] "GET /install/img/devices.png HTTP/1.1" 200 175349 "http://espocrm-fork-public:8081/install/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/120.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"
127.0.0.1 - - [26/Jan/2024:11:33:22 -0700] "GET /install/css/install.css HTTP/1.1" 200 2491 "http://espocrm-fork-public:8081/install/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/120.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"
127.0.0.1 - - [26/Jan/2024:11:33:22 -0700] "GET /install/js/install.js HTTP/1.1" 200 21020 "http://espocrm-fork-public:8081/install/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/120.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"
127.0.0.1 - - [26/Jan/2024:11:33:22 -0700] "GET /client/img/favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 403 199 "http://espocrm-fork-public:8081/install/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/120.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"​


    I have narrowed it down to an issue with the .htaccess file after several hours of debugging. The .htaccess file is as follows:
    Code:
    <ifModule mod_headers.c>
    Header always set Access-Control-Allow-Methods "POST, GET, PUT, PATCH, DELETE"
</ifModule>

DirectoryIndex index.php

Options -Indexes

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On

    # Forbid access. Not actual as redirect to `public` is applied.
    # An extra security measure if redirect not fired.
    RewriteRule ^/?data/ - [F]
    RewriteRule ^/?application/ - [F]
    RewriteRule ^/?custom/ - [F]
    RewriteRule ^/?vendor/ - [F]
    RewriteRule /?web\.config - [F]

    # Forbid `public` dir.
    RewriteCond %{ENV:REDIRECT_STATUS} !=200
    RewriteRule ^/?public/? - [F,L]

    # Skip redirect for `client` dir.
    RewriteRule ^client/ - [L]

    # Store base path.
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}::$1 ^(.*?/)(.*)::\2$
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ - [E=BASE:%1]

    # Add trailing slash.
    RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/%{ENV:BASE}/public/$1 -d
    RewriteRule ^(.*?[^/])$ %{REQUEST_URI}/ [L,R=301,NE]

    # Rewrite to `public` dir.
    RewriteRule ^((?!public/).*)$ %{ENV:BASE}/public/$1 [L,NC]

    RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_ESPO_CGI_AUTH:%{HTTP:Authorization}]
</IfModule>


    Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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    • bandtank
      Active Community Member
      • Mar 2017
      • 411
      #2
      I've had some trouble with adding /public to the vhost configurations in production environments as well. I think the .htaccess file or some of the server configuration instructions may need to be adjusted for Apache 2.4+.

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        • czcpf
          Senior Member
          • Aug 2022
          • 162
          #3
          I had alot of trouble on cPanel server with this. Here is a copy of my apache 2.4.58 conf file. The main difference I see is you don't have a directive to grant access to the /client/ alias directory

          From the apache 2.4 docs

          "In particular, if you are creating an Alias to a directory outside of your DocumentRoot, you may need to explicitly permit access to the target directory".​


          Code:
          <IfModule mod_fcgid.c>
    FcgidPassHeader Authorization
    FcgidPassHeader Proxy-Authorization
    FcgidPassHeader HTTP_AUTHORIZATION
</IfModule>

<IfModule mod_fastcgi.c>
    FastCgiConfig -pass-header Authorization \
                  -pass-header Proxy-Authorization \
                  -pass-header HTTP_AUTHORIZATION
</IfModule>

Alias /client/ {path-to-espo}/client/

<Directory {path-to-espo}>
    AllowOverride None
</Directory>

<Directory{path-to-espo}/public/>
    AllowOverride All
</Directory>

<Directory {path-to-espo}/client/>
    Require all granted
</Directory>​
          Last edited by czcpf; 03-19-2024, 04:05 PM.

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            • bandtank
              #3.1
              bandtank commented
              05-25-2024, 05:01 PM
              Editing a comment
              Thank you for the information. That was very helpful.
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