Only present vhosts what have htdocs, example of override disabling a service

[keithy]

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[cytopia]

This will make a big difference and should be discussed with the community.

Current behaviour:

• Project exists, but does not have a vhost: Intranet will actually complain and let you know where to create the htdocs directory.

New behaviour:

• Project exists, but does not have a vhost: Intranet will not show this vhost.

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The current behaviour is helping people a lot to get started with the Devilbox. The new one will counteract this, but will allow more advanced people to hide stuff they intentionally want to hide.

[keithy]

I didnt consider your use case fully.
How about plan B) ignore any folders containing a .boxignore file (?)
or plan C) allow users to provide a .boxignore (json\yml] file that lists directories to ignore from the UI.
e.g. I use a packages directory to put shared code.

[cytopia]

@keithy that's a good idea I didn't even think about yet. What do you think about having that setting in .env as a comma separated string, such as:

DEVILBOX_UI_IGNORE=project1,another-project2,www.api

[keithy]

Hi, that works for me!

My use case was this... I discovered that the site I was working on was using include_path and had libraries in /usr/local/php so I needed to make them available in a shared place and the only place available that gets mounted into the php container is that directory itself /shared/httpd/

Then I started developing and used composers "path" repositories which are symlinked into the projects. Again the only sensible place to put shared resources was in that top directory.

So... your UI_IGNORE idea would do the trick. AND you could make it a wildcard.

DEVILBOX_UI_IGNORE=_*,package*,shared*

[cytopia]

Wildcard is even better 👍

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[cytopia]

@keithy I will close this PR as it is almost 10 month old with no further commits.