Docker issue

[stuartmaxwell]

Describe the bug

Hi there - I followed the Docker instructions properly but after running docker-compose up -d I am unable to run the setup script since the web container never launches properly. A look at the docker logs shows the following errors:

2019/07/17 08:22:30 Loading config.ini configuration...
ERROR: 2019/07/17 08:22:30 log.go:26: Unable to load configuration: open config.ini: no such file or directory

I've checked the docker-compose file to make sure that the config.ini.example file is mapped properly: - "./config.ini.example:/go/src/app/config.ini"

Not sure what to check next?

Thanks for open-sourcing this - keen to check it out.

Steps to reproduce (if necessary)

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Follow the docker instructions
2. Run docker-compose up -d
3. Attempt to run the ./docker-setup.sh command

Expected behavior

Setup script should run

Application configuration

• Single mode or Multi-user mode? - haven't got this far yet
• Database? [mysql/sqlite] - The docker-compose file uses mysql by default - the database container starts up fine
• Open registration? [yes/no] - haven't got this far yet
• Federation enabled? [yes/no] - haven't got this far yet

Version or last commit:
Checked out the latest GitHub code: Latest commit 71fb635 9 days ago

[thebaer]

Thanks for the report. It looks like the app isn't finding a config.ini file in the directory writefreely is running from. But I don't actually have any experience with Docker -- this part of WriteFreely is maintained entirely by the community -- so I'll have to defer this to anyone else with experience there. Any help would be much appreciated!

[ghost]

I can check this out

[thebaer]

Sounds great.

[ghost]

@stuartmaxwell sorry about this, I tried to build the docker file and run the compose script with no luck either. Both fail to build.

I will start by writing a working docker file and we can iterate on a production level compose after that.

[stuartmaxwell]

Thanks for looking into this, I'm keen to help too but have been short on time recently and have no experience with Go. Let me know if I can help with any testing though.

[ghost]

@stuartmaxwell if you are keen to try out writefreely before we get these things sorted out on master here. I have some images built from https://github.com/writeas/writefreely/tree/docker on my personal docker hub https://cloud.docker.com/u/robjloranger/repository/docker/robjloranger/writefreely.

There are instructions there and two compose files as well, but they may change.

[adamelliotfields]

The instructions are incorrect. The working directory is /go, so that means config.ini must be mounted at /go/config.ini, not /go/src/app/config.ini.

Here is how I got writefreely up manually using Docker. In the future, these steps could be moved to docker-entrypoint.sh inside the container so a user could simply run docker run.

Create config.ini:

cat <<EOF > config.ini
[server]
port                 = 8080
bind                 = 0.0.0.0

[database]
type     = sqlite3
filename = writefreely.db

[app]
site_name          = Our Community
site_description   = A place to write freely.
host               = http://localhost:8080
disable_js         = false
webfonts           = true
single_user        = true
open_registration  = false
min_username_len   = 1
max_blogs          = 1
federation         = false
public_stats       = false
private            = false
local_timeline     = true
user_invites       = admin
landing            = /
default_visibility = public
EOF

Create writefreely.db:

touch writefreely.db

Create /go/keys volume:

docker volume create writefreely

Initial database migration:

docker run \
-i \
-v writefreely:/go/keys \
-v $(pwd)/config.ini:/go/config.ini \
-v $(pwd)/writefreely:/go/writefreely.db \
--rm \
writeas/writefreely:0.9.1 \
-init-db

Create Admin user (see author.go for a list of reserved user names):

docker run \
-i \
-v writefreely:/go/keys \
-v $(pwd)/config.ini:/go/config.ini \
-v $(pwd)/writefreely:/go/writefreely.db \
--rm \
writeas/writefreely:0.9.1 \
-create-admin \
adam:adam

Start the server:

docker run \
-d \
-p 8080:8080 \
-v writefreely:/go/keys \
-v $(pwd)/config.ini:/go/config.ini \
-v $(pwd)/writefreely:/go/writefreely.db \
--name=writefreely \
writeas/writefreely:0.9.1

[thebaer]

Sorry this issue went unattended. Would anyone be interested in submitting a fix here, as a pull request?

[thebaer]

@shleeable is any of this addressed in #357?