Installation | Football League Manager — Self-hosted football league management software

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Setup environment

To use Football League Manager, download and unzip the script to your webserver's document root.

Public Directory

After unzip, you should configure your web server's document / web root to be the public directory. The index.php in this directory serves as the front controller for all HTTP requests entering your application.

The point of having public directory for host root is that you're not leaking any of the project files through your web server.

That public directory is there for reason to make project a bit more secure. Don't try to break this security addition.

.htaccess configuration

Apache

The public/.htaccess file is used to provide URLs without the index.php front controller in the path. Before using Football League Manager with Apache, be sure to enable the mod_rewrite module so the .htaccess file will be honored by the server.

The content of the .htaccess can be different from one server to another.

This is the default .htaccess file:

Options +FollowSymLinks -Indexes
RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{HTTP:Authorization} .
RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization}]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]

If this is not working, ask from your hosting provider to set up your .htaccess file.

Nginx

If you are using Nginx, the following directive in your site configuration will direct all requests to the index.php front controller:

location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
}

Directory Permissions