Directus deployment on Elastic Beanstalk - apache2

Question

I cloned Directus 8 from github. I run it in my local server. It worked fine without any problems.
Then I uploaded code to AWS Elastic Beanstalk (PHP, apache). but it showed 500 Internal Server Error.
error log: /var/www/html/directus/public/.htaccess: <IfModule not allowed here
I added .ebextensions/setup.config file to my root folder, like this.
files:
"/etc/httpd/conf.d/enable_mod_rewrite.conf":
mode: "644"
owner: root
group: root
content: |
AllowOverride All
but my Beanstalk said Unsuccessful command execution on instance id(s) 'i-0f6...'. Aborting the operation. and went to degrading state.
How to fix this?

Answer 1

This answer is for Directus 8 (PHP)
Tried almost all ways of apache settings using .ebextensions and .platform nothing worked.
Then tried NGINX with custom .platform configs. It worked. Answering the steps which I did, may be helpful to someone else, who has the same problem
Directus docs has some configs for NGINEX, go through it
create nginex.conf file under .platform/nginx folder
we are going to replace existing nginex.conf inside the beanstalk. copy existing nginex.conf using ssh to ec2 instance and add the custom configs mentioned in the docs and paste it to our newly created .platform/nginx/nginex.conf
below is my custom .platform/nginx/nginex.conf
user nginx;
error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log warn;
pid /var/run/nginx.pid;
worker_processes auto;
worker_rlimit_nofile 32136;
events {
worker_connections 1024;
}
http {
include /etc/nginx/mime.types;
default_type application/octet-stream;
log_format main '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] "$request" '
'$status $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" '
'"$http_user_agent" "$http_x_forwarded_for"';
include conf.d/*.conf;
map $http_upgrade $connection_upgrade {
default "upgrade";
}
server {
listen 80 default_server;
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;
}
location /admin {
try_files $uri $uri/ /admin/index.html?$args;
}
location /thumbnail {
try_files $uri $uri/ /thumbnail/index.php?$args;
}
# Deny direct access to php files in extensions
location /extensions/.+\.php$ {
deny all;
}
# All uploads files (originals) cached for a year
location ~* /uploads/([^/]+)/originals/(.*) {
add_header Cache-Control "max-age=31536000";
}
# Serve php, html and cgi files as text file
location ~* /uploads/.*\.(php|phps|php5|htm|shtml|xhtml|cgi.+)?$ {
add_header Content-Type text/plain;
}
# Deny access to any file starting with .ht,
# including .htaccess and .htpasswd
location ~ /\.ht {
deny all;
}
# pass PHP scripts to FastCGI server
location ~ \.php$ {
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php-fpm/www.sock;
fastcgi_index index.php;
include /etc/nginx/fastcgi.conf;
}
access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log main;
# Include the Elastic Beanstalk generated locations
include conf.d/elasticbeanstalk/*.conf;
}
}
done, when we uploading it, beanstalk will automatically replace our custom nginex.conf with existing nginex.conf. (note: we can add the changes only instead of replacing, but it didn't work at the time I tried)