How am I supposed to work with permissions using filestash locally?
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kyne_ahnung · 2023-12-29 20:32

I don't get it, I have a local directory that is owned by www-data
because it's used by some other web apps. If I spin up a filestash
container I can't write to this directory, if I specify "user: 33:33"
in the compose file that fixes it but then I can't make changes in the
admin config and get this error:

> AjaxError: Filestash needs to be able to create/edit its own
configuration which it can't at the moment. Change the permission for
filestash to create and edit `/app/data/state/config/config.json`

Which is presumably because of the uid change. What should I be doing?
No info found in the documentation.

compose.yml:

    version: "3.8"

    services:
      app:
        image: machines/filestash
        restart: unless-stopped
        user: 33:33
        environment:
          - APPLICATION_URL=
        ports:
          - "8334:8334"
        volumes:
          - filestash_config:/app/data/state/
          - /srv/test:/srv/test

    volumes:
      filestash_config:
        name: filestash_config

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A-Void-Me · 2023-12-30 12:22

does
chown -R 33:33 filestash\_config


fix your problem? on my host i needed use
chown -R 1000:1000 FileStash/


or maybe even chmod

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kyne_ahnung · 2023-12-30 13:14

filestash_config is a volume, I could use a local directory on the
host instead and set it to 33:33 - I might do that later.

At the moment I'm testing out filebrowser which works better out of
the box but is creating files as root even though I set the uid and
guid to 33 as environment variables, I think I need to run the
container as www-data as well.

Will try both those things later and go with whichever works best.

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kyne_ahnung · 2023-12-30 19:39

FYI this works for filestash if `chown 33:33 /srv/apps/filestash`is
run before start:

    services:
      app:
        image: machines/filestash
        container_name: filestash-app
        restart: unless-stopped
        user: 33:33
        environment:
          - APPLICATION_URL=
        ports:
          - "8334:8334"
        volumes:
          - /srv/apps/filestash:/app/data/state/
          - /srv/test:/srv/test

And this works for filebrowser if `chown -R 33:33
/srv/apps/filebrowser` is run before start:

    services:
      filebrowser:
        image: filebrowser/filebrowser:latest
        container_name: filebrowser-app
        restart: unless-stopped
        user: 33:33
        environment:
          - TZ=
        ports:
          - 8380:80
        volumes:
          - /srv/test:/srv
          - /srv/apps/filebrowser/database.db:/database.db

I think I'll go with filebrowser after all, just fits me a little bit
better after trying both but I really like filestash as well