Planka on an Apache server

Since Atlassian has been restricting their free plan for Trello a while ago, I was checking for some self-hosted alternatives and stumbled upon Planka, which was ticking a lot of my boxes (especially, the Trello import feature seemed useful). However, their docs for making it run with Apache2 as a reverse proxy are a bit scanty still.

Planka should be running on the same server as my website and be accessible from https://planka.myparty.de subdomain. So I set up these two config files.

# planka.conf
<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName planka.myparty.de
 
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteRule ^/?(.*) https://planka.myparty.de/$1 [R=301,L]
</VirtualHost>

# planka-le-ssl.conf
<IfModule mod_ssl.c>
<VirtualHost *:443>
    ServerName planka.myparty.de
    ServerAdmin info@myparty.de
 
    ProxyPreserveHost On
    ProxyRequests Off
    SSLProxyEngine on
 
    # Proxy WebSocket explicitly
    ProxyPass "/socket.io/" "ws://127.0.0.1:3000/socket.io/"
    ProxyPassReverse "/socket.io/" "ws://127.0.0.1:3000/socket.io/"
 
    # Proxy regular HTTP
    ProxyPass "/" "http://127.0.0.1:3000/"
    ProxyPassReverse "/" "http://127.0.0.1:3000/"
 
    SSLEngine on
    SSLCertificateFile /etc/letsencrypt/live/planka.myparty.de/fullchain.pem
    SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/letsencrypt/live/planka.myparty.de/privkey.pem
    Include /etc/letsencrypt/options-ssl-apache.conf
 
    ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/planka_error.log
    CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/planka_access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
</IfModule>

I use port 3000 here, but you should check again under which port it is actually running, e.g. by trying docker ps and check the port mappings. Also, I’m assuming here that you know how to set up SSL and enabled your sites. If not, check the article on self-hosting listmonk.

Some users reported they also had to pass in the following directives in the docker-compose.yml:

services:
    planka:
        ...
        environment: 
            - BASE_URL=https://myparty.de
            - TRUST_PROXY=1 
            ...    
        ...
    ...
...

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Planka on an Apache server