Install own app failed with No CloudronManifest.json found

[murgero]

@roru2k20 To install a custom app, CloudronManifest needs to be in the same dir where you run the install command.

So as an example, if you git clone a custom app to your HDD:

git clone https://github.com/username/cloudron-app
cd cloudron-app
cloudron install --image=dockerhubid/packagename

[roru2k20]

Okay I understand!
It was not clear to me that I also had to be locally in the same directory.

Now I have tested on my VS Code with installed Docker Desktop, npm with chocolatey, git and so on and it doesn't work for me. I think the problem is, that my user has no admin rights, therefore I can't install correctly any npm tools and therefore no cloudron cli work.

With cloudron login my.... I get

PS H:\Projekte\Docker\cloudron-mariadb> cloudron login my....
internal/fs/utils.js:230
    throw err;
    ^

Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '\Users\axelh\.cloudron.json'
    at Object.openSync (fs.js:458:3)
    at Object.writeFileSync (fs.js:1355:35)
    at save (C:\Users\axelh\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\cloudron\src\config.js:63:8)
    at set (C:\Users\axelh\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\cloudron\src\config.js:71:5)
    at Object.<anonymous> (C:\Users\axelh\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\cloudron\src\config.js:55:60)
    at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1138:30)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1158:10)
    at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:986:32)
    at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:879:14)
    at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1026:19) {
  errno: -4058,
  syscall: 'open',
  code: 'ENOENT',
  path: '\\Users\\axelh\\.cloudron.json'
}
PS H:\Projekte\Docker\cloudron-mariadb> 

I have to work something out

[nebulon]

We haven't really tested it on windows yet. I will do so in the next couple of days, to see if we need some special fixes there.

[roru2k20]

I install ZorinOS on HyperV and try it there

[roru2k20]

Hey,
I did everything differently than I had planned

I have installed my first app on my instance, but i can't connect to mariadb-server.
Yes my plan was to install a standalone mariadb-server to use it as cloud database without any connection to the internal database.

Now I would like to test my server and I can't connect. The server runs good, the special credentials that I have created dynamically while installation works, but when I try to connect from my Client Valentina Studio on Zorin OS to the server nothing happens.

What I'm doing wrong?

https://bitbucket.org/roru2k20/cloudron-mariadb/src/master/

Can anybody help me? All knowledge I have acquired autodidactically

Thanks and have a nice evening.

[murgero]

@roru2k20 To use cloudrons built-in mysql server (MariaDB is mysql!) you need to add the mysql addon to the manifest. Then you will get auto-generated credentials via environment variables.

https://cloudron.io/documentation/custom-apps/addons/#mysql

Screenshot of how the manifest would look with it:

Please note the syntax - it's a JSON file and will need to be formatted properly!

[roru2k20]

@murgero many thanks but my plan is not to connect to the internal server. My plan is only to create a standalone server.

Now I have installed successfully, but I can't connect to them.

When I test the container with a portscanner only 80, 443, 22 and 222 are open. My plan is 6033.

Is this a good plan?

When all is fine next step is to combine with phpMyAdmin in one installation.

[roru2k20]

Now I have change all Ports to 6033 and I can't connect to the MariaDB-Server

Here you can see my netstat -tulpen export

But further my portscanner said no open Port 6033.

What I'm doing wrong???

[nebulon]

In your case you have to specify the ports in the CloudronManifest. See https://cloudron.io/documentation/custom-apps/manifest/#tcpports for that

Generally, what is your reason to require a standalone mysql server as an app on your Cloudron?

[roru2k20]

I would like to test if I can create an App for Cloudron.

But may be as App for centralized database server for development. It is only an idea from me.

When it successfull done I would like to test more, may be more complicated app.

[roru2k20]

Oh my godness...I'm so blind

In Germany we often say: We can't see the forest for the trees.

It works great!! It was misconfiguration of my client. My client Valentina Studio thought the connection was a MSSQL-Server and not a MariaDB/MySQL. After I recreate my connection it works with the right port and use my special credentials.

Thanks a lot for your help

[nebulon]

Glad it solved itself