EDIT: Sorry! Taking question elsewhere as it was not actually on topic. Sorry again.

I just played a little with installing Plex. I see it like to create some media directories in /opt/something and copy all the mediafiles there.

I want my media to stay where it is, and not be copied or moved anywhere else. If copied it will double my 600GB media to a total of 1200GB.

Maybe Plex is not for me. Or is there some other way to have Plex serve media from their current location, without copying or moving it?

@tadeas Hi, could this be something useful? https://cloudron.io/documentation/storage/#move-the-data-directory-to-another-location

@nebulon said in Cloudron overrides iptables-persistent:

iptables-save >/etc/iptables/rules.v4

Thanks @nebulon , that may be the problem, as I initially only ran the command

iptables-save

instead of

iptables-save >/etc/iptables/rules.v4

(I followed this guide: https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-make-iptables-rules-persistent-after-reboot-on-linux)

Now the iptables rules (inkl custom rules) persist after reboot, but then again...cloudron has had no reason to do changes.

So I provoked it by installing another app (wordpress-app). A few seconds after installation it said wordpress was running, but I could not access it. A few seconds later I could. So it seems it is working. (Maybe I should have tried another app, with other ports)

@necrevistonnezr maybe you could also benefit from looking at iptables-persistent? https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-make-iptables-rules-persistent-after-reboot-on-linux

I came to think about something like this:

1. Run a script that monitors when cloudron is finished loading, and finished configuring iptables (after each restart/bootup)
2. Then, when cloudron is complete restarted, script insert the needed custom iptables entries, and then run iptables-persistent.

There are probably much better ways to do it, but at least I am trying to think out a possible solution. But how to code that script and get it to do the stuff I want? Anyone able to help?

Hi all

I need to have a few extra ports open on my home theater computer, which has cloudron installed as the "brain" for web-apps (nextcloud).

(So far I could not detect any conflict between cloudron and the other extra serverapps that is in need of these ekstra open ports (Virtualbox and its VM's))

I have added these ekstra ports in iptables and saved the configuration with iptables-persistent

But when server/cloudron is restarted, cloudron overrides my iptables-persistent settings and clean out my extra iptablerules.

How can I get cloudron to respect my extra iptables rules, and not wipe them every reboot/restart?

@nebulon Thanks a lot. NextCloud app installed. Now continue testing

@nebulon OK, new installation tested. Fresh Ubuntu 18.04 server Virtualbox clone, then installed fresh Cloudron. Cloudron ID is exactly the same id as previous installation (d781350d-8cc0-4d73-85a6-5214430500b8)

I did not change any VirtualBox "hardware" settings. Maybe I should try again, different RAM and different HD size?

BTW, all test installations have been configured for the same domain. Dont' know if that has anything to do with creating this odd problem?

Maybe I could have avoided these problems if I had uninstalled the installed apps in the first cloudron, before I deleted it. But main problem would still be there, then maybe for others to discover.

@nebulon These testinstallations are fresh. I have a Virtualbox Ubuntu18.04 clean server guest OS, which I clone when I need it, and then - after the cloning process - install a fresh Cloudron on it. When something goes wrong, I delete the guest OS, start a new clone, and do again a fresh installation of Cloudron. So I can not see how they should get the same cloudron id?

I'll make a note of the current cloudron id, and then do a fresh install, and then we see if it gets the same id as the previous one. I'll report back when done.

What conditions generate the Cloudron ID? Is it the hardware setup? If so the hardware setup are the same for each VBox server. Maybe I need to slightly alter the harddrive size for each new testinstallation?

Hi @nebulon @girish

I am testing some server configurations with cloudron, make some errors, have to reinstall and repeat the process until I am satisfied with my setup.
In the last reinstallation Cloudron refuse to let me install any apps, saying:

Subscription required

The free plan only allows 2 apps. Please sign up for a paid plan to install more apps.

As I have reinstalled the server and installed a new cloudron, there are no apps installed in this cloudron, so there must be some error in your system that for some strange reason still see the apps installed in previous installations, and count those towards the 2 app free limit.

This make it difficult to do developer testing before installing a production system.

Can you please take a look at this problem?