LinguaCafe - Confused why the provided docker-compose doesn't work.

Submitted ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Natal@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨selfhosted@lemmy.world⁩

Hello everyone,

Recently found LinguaCafe and decided to spin it up. There’s a provided docker-compose with just volumes to specify to your own taste. Pretty easy right?

I can’t make it work. Spent nearly two hours already trying to figure out what I’m missing.

Can someone take a look at my compose file and tell me where I’m stupid?

Here’s a somewhat anonymized pastebin, I just removed the password and my name from the file. The rest is basically the file provided by the github + my paths. pastebin.com/fJByZhic

github.com/simjanos-dev/LinguaCafe

What happens is, my containers spin up apparently properly. But when I go to :9191, I have this:

imgur.com/a/PiazCcP

Never had that happen before. Does anyone know? Thanks

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redcalcium@lemmy.institute ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Probably just a permission issue. The doc seems to recommend giving relaxed permission to the temp folder volume:

sudo chmod 777 /your/linguacafe/temp/folder -R

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- Natal@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  
  sudo chmod 777 /your/linguacafe/temp/folder -R
  
  I have done that and it doesn’t seem to help. Edited main post to reflect that.
  
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SeeJayEmm@lemmy.procrastinati.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Reads to me like the container it’s running as a user that doesn’t have permission to the volume path.

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- Natal@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Is there a command to check that?
  
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  - SeeJayEmm@lemmy.procrastinati.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I’m not sure if there’s a correct way. What I’ve done in the past is use “ps” to find out what user the processes are running as.
    
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MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Did you change the mysql container database name, username and password to something other than the default linguacafe ?

That would break it, as it’s using those specific credentials to login to the database. Which would cause Access denied for user ‘linguacafe’@‘ip adress censored’ (using password: YES) (SQL: select count(*) as aggregate from users)

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theit8514@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Based on your update you may need to bring the containers down and up to fix the database.

Sometimes when opening LinguaCafe the first time there is an error message about users database table. If this happens, just stop and start your containers again, it should fix the problem.

docker compose down docker compose up -d
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Natal@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
So, all points to permission issues. Who should be the owner of the directories?

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mouse@midwest.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
That error message says it the permissions of the /home/user/Documents/Docker/LinguaCafe/logs directory. You can try changing it full r/w temporarily to test.

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1984@lemmy.today ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Hmm, can you have absolute paths like that in docker compose? Ive always used paths relative to the current working dir.

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singularity@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
You seem to be missing your username in the volume paths, e.g. /home/username/Documents.

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- Natal@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  That’s one thing I removed from the file on purpose, it’s here in the real one. I copy paste my path to be sure it’s correct.
  
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