Auto generated config fails

[max-allan-surevine]

If you try to auto generate the config it does not create valid config.

mkdir foo
cd foo
touch index.html
pack build httpd --builder paketobuildpacks/builder:full --env BP_WEB_SERVER=httpd

Expected Behavior

The container should create a default config that works.

Current Behavior

The container fails to run

docker run -e PORT=8080 httpd
AH00526: Syntax error on line 20 of /workspace/httpd.conf:
DocumentRoot '/workspace/public' is not a directory, or is not readable

Possible Solution

Maybe update the documentation to say your HTML files need to be in ./public

It'd also be handy to point out that you need to specify the port when running the container.

Steps to Reproduce

See above

Motivations

I was trying to get started with a very basic container.

[ryanmoran]

We should certainly update the documentation to include some details about the assumptions made by the auto-generated configuration. To change the path to serve, did you see the docs for setting BP_WEB_SERVER_ROOT?

[max-allan-surevine]

Exactly those docs.

Set the BP_WEB_SERVER_ROOT variable to an absolute file path or a file path relative to /workspace

So, if BP_WEB_SERVER_ROOT is unset then the root would be /workspace, not /workspace/public.