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HumHub - social network software

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    @girish Actually, I just thought of something. If the modules folder is symlinked and the app is expecting to write to the modules folder in /app/code, it will error right? I imagine it wouldn't just look at the actual folder in /app/data. The trouble here is there is a "module store" of sorts built right into the app.

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    @atrilahiji maybe you can symlink /app/code/modules to /app/data/modules and that way it will become writable.

    To give a high level idea, let's say humhub app comes with some default modules. Then, in Dockerfile, you would move them to some other location like:

    RUN mv /app/code/modules /app/code/modules_orig && ln -s /app/data/modules /app/code/modules

    Then in start.sh:

    mkdir -p /app/code/modules
    cp -r /app/code/modules_orig/* /app/data/modules
    

    In many apps, instead of the blind copy above, we try to symlink each "module". So, there will be a symlink from /app/data/modules/x to /app/code/modules_orig/x . This sometimes works or not depending on the app. But hopefully you get the idea!

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    @girish my confusion here is if the app still tries to write to /app/code/modules it would hit permissions issues no?

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    @girish Running into issues here: https://docs.humhub.org/docs/admin/installation/#file-permissions

    There appears to be no way to configure where Hubhub looks for those files, so it will just keep trying to write to the symlink in /app/code and fail. In fact, you cant even get the site to load after installation without having the assets directory writable. This is something it has to do on startup. I can still make an update script for this, but I think it will have to sit in /app/data just based on how this was written. Unless I'm missing something?

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    @atrilahiji said in HumHub - social network software:

    if the app still tries to write to /app/code/modules it would hit permissions issues no?

    no, that should not be the case (at least when the symlinked dir has proper permissions for this).

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    @fbartels Weird... it seemed to think it didn't have permission to write...

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    @atrilahiji Never stop never stopping! You're doing great!

    A life lived in fear is a life half-lived

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    @atrilahiji can you push your current wip? I'd like to give the code a look.

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    @fbartels Sure thing: https://git.atridad.dev/alt-ron/cloudron-humhub-app/-/tree/harden-app-code

    Thanks! I'm convinced this is 1) impossible or 2) something so simple yet I have not noticed it somehow

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    @atrilahiji for me this works with

    ➜  cloudron-humhub-app git:(harden-app-code) git rev-parse --short HEAD
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    Steps I tried:

    • Install app (in debug mode, but only so that i could override and start the start.sh manually)
    • finished Humhub installation
    • went into admin and selected modules
    • installed a module
    • activated a module
    • no php error can be seen
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    @fbartels Huh so you manually started start.sh from the terminal in recovery mode? I get the exact same error doing that. Did you do something else to modify the permissions?

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    @atrilahiji no, no changes at all. maybe some leftovers from a previous installation of yours?

    Yes, you can run cloudron install --debug where then the init script is not run. you then need to exec into the app and run it manually.

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    @fbartels ahhh I see what you mean. I'll try that.

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    @fbartels Oh weird yeah that works... no clue why it wouldn't work if the start.sh is run normally during an install...

    IDK if you saw the same error but if I don't start in debug mode and switch to Recovery Mode, running start.sh results in a permission error for PHP again.

    EDIT: Nvm I think I figured it out...

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    @atrilahiji ah nevermind, i forgot that part of debug is that the container is not read-only. Looking at the code now a bit closer.

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    @atrilahiji the modules directory does not exist at all in /app/code and then it fails at creating it in the first place. You have to prepare this in a similar way to https://git.atridad.dev/alt-ron/cloudron-humhub-app/-/blob/harden-app-code/Dockerfile#L78-80 where the folder symlink needs to already be created during docker build and then in start.sh you need to make sure that the folder and its default contents exist.

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    @fbartels I think I got it working finally. I'll test it one more time and then push the code up.

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    This should work now: https://git.atridad.dev/alt-ron/cloudron-humhub-app/-/releases/0.8.0

    Now to tackle updates. With everything we need in /app/data now it should be a piece of cake. Thanks for the help @fbartels !

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    @atrilahiji yes, now it also starts in normal (non debug) mode. A nice addition would be auto configuration of ldap.

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