Lamp Custom document root

Maklar · April 14, 2026, 6:34pm

NethServer Version: 8
Module: lamp

Hello. Is it possible to specify a non-standard directory for Apache? /var/www/html/htdocs, for example. I use Dolibarr for CRM.

mrmarkuz · April 15, 2026, 10:46am

Hi and welcome to NethServer Community.

It could be possible to use a .htaccess file, see GitHub - NethServer/ns8-lamp: configure a lamp module with phpmyadmin · GitHub

There’s also a Dolibarr app available, see ns8:applications:applications [NethServer & NethSecurity] and NS8-Dolibarr App

Maklar · April 15, 2026, 11:24am

I’ve already set up .htaccess. However, I can’t completely remove /htdocs from the address bar; either takepos isn’t working or it’s not downloading files. I also saw the app, but I understand it’s not updated. I thought maybe there was a feature I didn’t know about. I even tried adding APACHE_DOCUMENT_ROOT=/var/www/html/htdocs to the configuration, but that didn’t help. We’ll use it as is.

mrmarkuz · April 16, 2026, 6:21am

Does it work when you change the documentroot? This is just for testing, the config isn’t persistent and will be lost after a container restart.

Edit the default site:

runagent -m lamp1 podman exec -ti apache2-app nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf

Change the DocumentRoot:

DocumentRoot /var/www/html/htdocs

Restart apache:

runagent -m lamp1 podman exec -ti apache2-app apache2ctl restart

Maklar · April 19, 2026, 8:35am

It would be great to add this functionality to the app’s settings. I’m ready for any testing.)

LayLow · April 20, 2026, 8:22pm

Let’s hail the Oracle @stephdl

stephdl · April 20, 2026, 8:26pm

Do not know if it is possible without breaking the container, you can bind mount the httpd.conf by editing the systemd service for now.

The post marked as a solution will not survive a restart of the container

Maklar · April 21, 2026, 2:21pm

Could you elaborate on how to do this? I’m still learning how to work with containers.

mrmarkuz · April 21, 2026, 3:40pm

A bind mount wasn’t working (I guess due to permissions) so I added a volume.
The problem is that the configuration is dynamic so after adding the volume, for example enabling/disabling phpmyadmin from the cluster-admin UI doesn’t work anymore but the change survives a container restart.

Edit the systemd service file:

runagent -m lamp1 systemctl --user edit --full apache2-app

Add the following at line 34:

    --volume sites-available:/etc/apache2/sites-available:Z \

Restart the service/container:

runagent -m lamp1 systemctl --user restart apache2-app

Maklar · April 21, 2026, 6:05pm

Perfect!!! Thank you very much!

stephdl · April 22, 2026, 7:50am

probably we need to add a new environment for this option with a sed directive inside the container

github.com/NethServer/ns8-lamp

container/run.sh

main

#!/bin/bash
#
# Prepare our container for initial boot.

set -e 
# Redirect any output to the journal (stderr)
exec 1>&2

# writing ssmtp.conf
# Check if SMTP is enabled

echo "Editing ssmtp.conf"
if [[ "$SMTP_ENABLED" != "1" ]]; then
    echo "SMTP relay settings from cluster-admin is not enabled. Exiting."
else
    # Create or overwrite the ssmtp.conf file
    {
        echo "mailhub=${SMTP_HOST}:${SMTP_PORT}"
        echo "AuthUser=${SMTP_USERNAME}"
        echo "AuthPass=${SMTP_PASSWORD}"

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basically if the env if found then the sed does the change if not present does nothing and the file present in the container is used as default

stephdl · April 30, 2026, 4:05pm

implemented