How to install on Linux with Apache

This assumes you’ve already followed the guide to install a player and the RompЯ files.

Getting Started

This guide came about because I was installing RompЯ on a Mythbuntu 16.04 installation where I also wanted to use Mythweb. Because Mythweb brings in Apache2 I was unable to use nginx as the webserver. So I came up with this method. If you already have a mythtv install, or another system which already uses Apache2 then this method should work for you.

If you are using Mythweb, you should make sure you’ve installed it with the option to use it alongside other websites. If you want to check this, do

sudo dpkg-reconfigure mythweb

Make sure Apache can find RompЯ

We need to make sure Apache can find RompЯ. To do this we create a soft link from Apache’s base directory to the folder you downloaded. On Ubuntu, the default base directory for Apache is /var/www/html, so

sudo ln -s /home/YOU/web/rompr /var/www/html/rompr

Install some packages

sudo apt-get install apache2 php-curl php-sqlite3 php-gd php-json php-xml php-mbstring php-intl imagemagick atomicparsley

Enable some Apache modules

sudo a2enmod expires
sudo a2enmod headers
sudo a2enmod deflate
sudo a2enmod php7.0

Note - the 7.0 may need to change depending on your PHP version

Create Apache configuration

We’re going to create an Apache configuration file for RompЯ. I’ll assume it’s been placed in my home directory, eg at /home/YOU/web/rompr.conf. We’ll refer to that as /PATH/TO/ROMPRCONF.

So, create this file, note I’ve assumed the default apache root directory of /var/www/html

Timeout 1800

<Directory /var/www/html/rompr>
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews Includes ExecCGI
    DirectoryIndex index.php
    AllowOverride All
    AddType image/x-icon .ico
    Order Allow,Deny
    Allow from All
    Require all granted
    ErrorDocument 404 /404.php

    <IfModule mod_php7.c>
        AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
        php_flag magic_quotes_gpc Off
        php_flag track_vars On
        php_admin_flag allow_url_fopen On
        php_value include_path .
        php_admin_value upload_tmp_dir /var/www/html/rompr/prefs/temp
        php_admin_value open_basedir none
        php_admin_value memory_limit 128M
        php_admin_value post_max_size 256M
        php_admin_value upload_max_filesize 32M
        php_admin_value max_file_uploads 50
        php_admin_value max_execution_time 1800
    </IfModule>

</Directory>

<Directory /var/www/html/rompr/albumart/small>
    Header set Cache-Control "no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate"
    Header set Pragma "no-cache"
    Header set Expires 0
</Directory>

<Directory /var/www/html/rompr/albumart/medium>
    Header set Cache-Control "no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate"
    Header set Pragma "no-cache"
    Header set Expires 0
</Directory>

<Directory /var/www/html/rompr/albumart/asdownloaded>
    Header set Cache-Control "no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate"
    Header set Pragma "no-cache"
    Header set Expires 0
</Directory>

Now symlink that file so that Apache can find it

sudo ln -s /PATH/TO/ROMPRCONF /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/rompr.conf

Finally….

Restart all the system services we’ve changed

sudo systemctl restart apache2

To access RompЯ, just use http://ip.of.computer.with.rompr/rompr