You might want to take this up upstream here - https://github.com/ampache/ampache/discussions

Hi,

I have a similar problem of @necrevistonnezr here.

I installed Ampache with the docker, although I am not familiar with the docker infrastructure, nor with the issue that can arise with it.

My docker is in /home/cocconat/ampache/

Once I installed the service all run smooth, and I can add the two test songs in the /home/cocconat/ampache/data/media/

All amazing.

Now I would like to add to the Catalog my entire music library. It lives in an external storage mounted in /home/cocconat/data/Music

I tried to make a link to the folder with

sudo ln -s /home/cocconat/Music ampache/data/media/music

but the catalogue does not see the linked folder,

I also tried to add a custom path in the Admin -> Add Catalog, I chose Local catalog and use the abs path of my folder /home/cocconat/data/Music or the relative path ../../Music which seems a bit silly ehehe.

Anyway, no way to find this folder.
My storage is an exfat mounted with fstab options: defaults,uid=1000,gid=1000,umask=022 0 1
which should be fine if I do not want to upload/change the files.

Is this a problem? shall I add www-data to my group?

And how am I supposed to add the folder? via the link or somehow else?

Thanks,
cocconat

I guess this is part of the complexity in implementing this Worth automating!

CIFS support umask flag when mounting

Yeah it's CIFS

Is yours a ext4 volume or something else? Because others like CIFS support umask flag when mounting. Maybe that's an option too.

A more "unixy" way is to create a group. Cloudron already creates a group called media. Then, add the www-data (that ampache uses) to that group on the host. Then change ownership of the directory to be media group and have rwx permissions. That should work too.

Do other people have access to the server? (i.e can they ssh in?).

No.

@girish said in Ampache - How to add a catalog / media with custom storage?:

Do you also require that Cloudron admins should not be able to delete files from the say the Volume -> file manager ?

At present there are no other admins. But if there were, I'd trust them to not do that.

I'm also wondering what the security implications of making it 777 are and if that could potentially mean other people could delete files from there without me wanting them to?

Do other people have access to the server? (i.e can they ssh in?). Do you also require that Cloudron admins should not be able to delete files from the say the Volume -> file manager ?

@jdaviescoates did you try the chmod on the host? (and not inside container)

Ah, no, I did it within the Web Terminal of the App itself.

I think if I need to actually SSH into my server in order to actually get Volumes to work with Ampache then perhaps I'll just not use Ampache at all!

I'm also wondering what the security implications of making it 777 are and if that could potentially mean other people could delete files from there without me wanting them to?

Even after changing that and then doing chmod 777 Music/ (from within the /media/ folder) it doesn't seem to have made any difference. I still get the exact same:

The folder couldn't be read. Does it exist? /media/Music

@jdaviescoates Can you cd /media/Music when you open web terminal of the app ?

Yes, I can.

@girish said in Ampache - How to add a catalog / media with custom storage?:

If that's there, then it's mostly because the data it's not readable by the www-data user?

OK, so how to fix that? I assume chmod? At present it's like this:

drwxrwx--- 2 cloudron cloudron    0 Jan 14 10:12 Music

The folder couldn't be read. Does it exist? /media/Music

@rmdes I think you got volumes working with this, right? How did you do it?

/app/data/Music

This is marked as solved, but I've just:

1. installed Ampache
2. mounted my Music volume to it

But now I'm at a loss as to what I need to do next in order to get Ampache to see and use my Music volume (host path /mnt/storage/Music ) ?

drwxrwxrwx  8 kdj      users    4,0K Nov  9 11:02 .
drwxrwxrwx 13 kdj      users     16K Nov  9 10:59 ..
drwxrwxrwx  2 kdj      users    4,0K Nov  9 08:47 channel
drwxrwxrwx  2 kdj      users    4,0K Nov  9 11:01 config
drwxrwxrwx  2 www-data www-data 4,0K Nov  9 11:02 Music
-rwxrwxrwx  1 kdj      users     109 Nov  9 08:47 php.ini
drwxrwxrwx  2 kdj      users    4,0K Nov  9 08:47 play
drwxrwxrwx  2 kdj      users    4,0K Nov  9 08:47 rest
drwxrwxrwx  2 kdj      users    4,0K Nov  9 11:01 themes

(I tried with kdj:users as well)