Docker - permission denied

Self-Hosted | v5
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Hi all,
I’m trying to install the official docker of InvoiceNinja. but I’m stuck!
the app container’s log report:

cp: can't create directory '/var/www/app/storage/app': Permission denied

even if I absurdly change the folder permission to 777 I keep getting that error. I’ve chowned to www-data, no better.
What’s wrong?
Thanks!

2

Hi,

Have you made any changes to the docker file?

@david do you have any ideas?

3

Hi Hillel,
I’ve changed: paths, containers name and network:

version: '3.7'

services:
  server:
    image: nginx
    container_name: invoiceninja_nginx
    restart: always
    env_file: env
    volumes:
      # Vhost configuration
      #- ./config/caddy/Caddyfile:/etc/caddy/Caddyfiledocker-com
      - /var/docker/invoiceninja/config/nginx/in-vhost.conf:/etc/nginx/conf.d/in-vhost.conf:ro
      - /var/docker/invoiceninja/app/public:/var/www/app/public:ro
    depends_on:
      - app
    # Run webserver nginx on port 80
    # Feel free to modify depending what port is already occupied
    ports:
      - "127.0.0.1:82:80"
      #- "443:443"
    networks:
      internal_bridge:
        ipv4_address: "172.20.0.7"
    extra_hosts:
      - "invoiceninja.mydomain.com:172.20.0.7 " #host and ip

  app:
    image: invoiceninja/invoiceninja:5
    container_name: invoiceninja_app
    env_file: env
    restart: always
    volumes:
      - /var/docker/invoiceninja/config/hosts:/etc/hosts:ro
      - /var/docker/invoiceninja/app/public:/var/www/app/public:rw,delegated
      - /var/docker/invoiceninja/app/storage:/var/www/app/storage:rw,delegated
    depends_on:
      - db
    networks:
      internal_bridge:
        ipv4_address: "172.20.0.8"
    extra_hosts:
      - "invoiceninja.mydomain.com:172.20.0.7 " #host and ip

  db:
    image: mysql:5
    container_name: invoiceninja_mysql
#    When running on ARM64 use MariaDB instead of MySQL
#    image: mariadb:10.4
#    For auto DB backups comment out image and use the build block below
#    build:
#      context: ./config/mysql
    ports:
         - "127.0.0.1:3305:3306"
    restart: always
    env_file: env
    volumes:
      - /var/docker/invoiceninja/mysql/data:/var/lib/mysql:rw,delegated

      # remove comments for next 4 lines if you want auto sql backups
      #- ./docker/mysql/bak:/backups:rw
      #- ./config/mysql/backup-script:/etc/cron.daily/daily:ro
      #- ./config/mysql/backup-script:/etc/cron.weekly/weekly:ro
      #- ./config/mysql/backup-script:/etc/cron.monthly/monthly:ro
    networks:
      internal_bridge:
        ipv4_address: "172.20.0.9"
    extra_hosts:
      - "invoiceninja.mydomain.com:172.20.0.7 " #host and ip

  # THIS IS ONLY A VALID CONFIGURATION FOR IN 4. DO NOT USE FOR IN 5.
  # cron:
  #   image: invoiceninja/invoiceninja:alpine-4
  #   volumes:
      # - ./docker/app/public:/var/www/app/public:rw,delegated
      # - ./docker/app/storage:/var/www/app/storage:rw,delegated
      # - ./docker/app/public/logo:/var/www/app/public/logo:rw,delegated
  #   entrypoint: |
  #     /bin/sh -c 'sh -s <<EOF
  #     trap "break;exit" SIGHUP SIGINT SIGTERM
  #     sleep 300s
  #     while /bin/true; do
  #       ./artisan ninja:send-invoices
  #       ./artisan ninja:send-reminders
  #       sleep 1d
  #     done
  #     EOF'
  #   networks:
  #     - invoiceninja
  #

networks:
  internal_bridge:
    external: true
4

I don’t believe you should need to make any changes to the docker file?

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5

But I’m behind Nginx reverse proxy, so I need to edit the network and I need to move the storage to a different drive

6

Maybe this will help:

7

I’ve tried with chown -R 1000:82 app, but since chmod 777 didn’t work, neither did this :frowning:
I’ve tried using the docker-compose as is, but I still get the same permission denied error.
An extra info: I get the error

ERROR: for invoiceninja5_original_app_1 Cannot start service app: failed to create shim task: OCI runtime create failed: runc create failed: unable to start container process: error during container init: error mounting "/home/andrea/docker-compose/invoiceninja5_original/config/hosts" to rootfs at "/etc/hosts": mount /home/andrea/docker-compose/invoiceninja5_original/config/hosts:/etc/hosts (via /proc/self/fd/6), flags: 0x5001: not a directory: unknown: Are you trying to mount a directory onto a file (or vice-versa)? Check if the specified host path exists and is the expected type

I’ve always got it but I worked around creating the hosts file manually

8

Sorry, I’m not sure. You may want to create an issue on the dockerfile GitHub repo.

9

Will do!
…filling chars…

10

I’ve solved it following this posts: Cannot use named volumes for `/var/www/app/public` - invoiceninja/dockerfiles

11

Glad to hear it, thanks for sharing the solution!

12

Now I’m stuck with a problem with nginx :sob: I’ll open a new post