Walter,
I realise time has passed, but I moved on to using Docker. Eventually I was pointed towards the simplest, easiest installation of emoncms I’ve ever done.
See this thread.
Up to date docker container image? - Emoncms / Installation - OpenEnergyMonitor Community
This link
Running the App with docker-compose | Emoncms docker
I changed the image line in that docker-compose.yml to simply
image: alexjunk/emoncms
tweaked the passwords and ports, made sure my host machine /data was chmod 777 as a starting point (you can restrict it later when you can see what users and groups the directories are created as), and simply did docker compose up. That’s it. Worked like a dream. I bet you could do it from nothing in less than 5 minutes including installing docker…
Maybe this helps you too.
Miles