koillection : A self-hosted website to manage all your collections

[thetomester13]

I'd like to see this on Cloudron as well! I started to package this up but the latest version only plays nice with PHP 8.2. I'm wondering if the latest PHP version can be packaged in Cloudron's base image coming up?

[girish]

@thetomester13 We already use 8.2 in a bunch of apps. See https://git.cloudron.io/cloudron/firefly-iii-app/-/blob/master/Dockerfile?ref_type=heads#L6

[thetomester13]

Thanks @girish! Will take a look at those!

[thetomester13]

I have a decent start for Koillection but am getting an error when trying to start up:
Mon Sep 18 01:03:32 2023 (1): Fatal Error Preloading failed to getpwnam("koillection")

Is someone able to help me figure this out and help me get past this error? I pushed up my what I have so far here. Any help would be appreciated! I'm obviously happy to do the clean up work on the repo afterwards, just really want to get past this one error. Thanks!

[thetomester13]

@girish @nebulon wondering if either of you have seen the error above previously and know of a way forward?

[robi]

See start.sh line 7

[thetomester13]

@robi thanks for the response!
You're talking about the 'generate-keypair' command? Yikes, I definitely did muck that up somehow however, even after fixing it and even commenting out that line entirely I'm still seeing the same (1): Fatal Error Preloading failed to getpwnam("koillection") error

[robi]

hmm, I think it was the double php php typo I noticed

[timconsidine]

@thetomester13 said in koillection : A self-hosted website to manage all your collections:

I'm still seeing the same (1): Fatal Error Preloading failed to getpwnam("koillection") error

I have not met this error before.

Let us all know if you get it packaged - it would be an interesting addition for Cloudron.

[timconsidine]

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The error message Preloading failed to getpwnam("koillection") error suggests that the system is trying 
to find a user named "koillection" but is unable to do so. This might be required by 
the application or its underlying system for proper permissions and ownership.

To resolve this issue when packaging Koillection for Cloudron, you can follow these steps:

1. Create the User
Before running the application, ensure that the user "koillection" exists on the system. 
You can create the user using the adduser command:

sudo adduser koillection

2. Set Proper Permissions
If Koillection requires specific directories or files to be owned by the "koillection" user, 
you'll need to change the ownership of those resources:

sudo chown -R koillection:koillection /path/to/koillection/directory
Replace /path/to/koillection/directory with the actual path to the directory or file that Koillection uses.

But no idea if this is in the right direction or a red herring.

[thetomester13]

@timconsidine this doesn't right to me unfortunately since I believe apps are run via the cloudrun user, I don't think each app gets its own user - feel free to correct me (anyone) if I'm mistaken. Appreciate the help looking into this error though @timconsidine !

[robi]

Can you run each line individually or comment out other lines to isolate which one generates the error?

[thetomester13]

@robi yep, that's probably what's going to need to happen!

[thetomester13]

I was able to get to the next error - progress! The app is now booting up properly. However, on first boot of the app it redirects users to a setup page endpoint, and I'm getting a 404 error on that page. Latest code is pushed up to my repo here, would appreciate if anyone is able to take a look!

[timconsidine]

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[timconsidine]

@thetomester13 given that you're in debug stage, I would eliminate any authentication issues, maybe remove from .env.production and as you're packaging for cloudron, use proxyAuth addon.
At least as a temporary measure to see if it resolves the issue.
404 is usually not found but maybe here means not allowed to find ?

[thetomester13]

Good news! With some help from the developer I was able to make some strides with this, and am now stuck on a new error. The Koillection application is built on top of Symfony, a PHP framework, which introduces some complexity which don't get along well with Cloudron's read-only fs. I'm wondering if anyone knows of any other Symfony based applications that could help point me in the right direction? I also pushed up the latest code to the repo in the meantime if anyone wants to take a look!
cc @girish @nebulon
Thanks and happy Thanksgiving

[jdaviescoates]

@thetomester13 said in koillection : A self-hosted website to manage all your collections:

Symfony based applications that could help point me in the right direction?

Not Symfony, but Castopod is built with CodeIgniter which afaiu is a similar kettle of fish (a PHP framework)

[girish]

@thetomester13 from https://symfony.com/projects, it seems mautic, grav, wallabag are some examples.

[thetomester13]

@girish that's exactly what I needed to be able to get Koillection up and running! Thanks so much. The problem at the end was also getting a write-friendly directory for user sessions for Symfony, by symlinking /run/php/session into /app/data. I pushed up the latest which is a working application to the repo here.

@girish is there interest in making this an official app? If so I can work on making tests for this (no guarantee of timeline though). The other question is how strict the precedence is for auto-creating users on app installation? Currently on install the user needs to go in and create the first user. If a user is a pre-req for an installable app then I'd need to find a way to bake an admin user in.