Trouble with "Local Storage" in Wikijs role

[RaneyDazed]

What PR?

PR #150

What is the issue?

There is an issue of some sort with the way things are mapped to the container. I had some trouble with this when I set it up via docker compose. When you set the local storage to /data (without the trailing slash as requested on the page) it allows the change with no errors.

However, when you try to use the local storage, it produces "No Permission" errors. Another example of it failing to work correctly is if you go to settings/utilities/Export To Disk/Export to tarball / file system and run a backup task, with /data/.export (default if local storage set to /data) set as the directory/file, it completes like it ran the task but nothing is placed in /opt/wikijs/app/data/.

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IIRC, the reason for this had to do with the "working directory" variable/env. I can't seem to find my compose that had that in it, but if I can I'll gladly link it here. It seems that it is currently set to /wiki. You can find the current "Workinig Directory." You can find the current working directory under settings/System/Working Directory in the web UI. If its not something you care to support that's fine, I can export by copy and paste if I need to or use git. I just figured that it would be nice to be able to use this particular feature. But it may introduce issues with PG. I'm not sure. I can try messing with the role if you'd like. I made some comments on discord about it, but I was partially wrong. It saves pages and everything just fine in PG. The only issue is when you try to use or export to local storage ie /opt/wikijs/app/{data,config}.

[saltydk]

Not sure what the issue here is? I just installed it and could do export to disk without issue?

[saltydk]

ls /opt/wikijs/app/data/export
groups.json  navigation.json  settings.json  users.json.gz

[RaneyDazed]

Really? 🤔 huh. It wouldn't work for me. I'll delete and reinstall I suppose and see if something odd happened IG

[saltydk]

https://i.imgur.com/nrDY5lC.gif

[RaneyDazed]

Did you add /data as local storage or not touch it at all?

[saltydk]

I just edited the path as you can see in the GIF

[saltydk]

leads to

root@dev /opt/wikijs/app/data # tree test
test
└── _manual
    └── wiki-20221126-032450.tar.gz

1 directory, 1 file

[RaneyDazed]

It was originally at ./data/export I edited it to the same as you and got this https://imgur.com/a/3RvbI3B

[RaneyDazed]

I'll wipe it clean and try again.

[saltydk]

Must be PEBCAK as I can't reproduce it at least.

[RaneyDazed]

I guess. Idk what else would cause it. :p Running the role rn

[RaneyDazed]

Still not working. This is on my local machine. Could have screwed something up there I suppose. I'll try it w my hetzner before I say anything else then

[saltydk]

You'll have to show what settings you're putting in the various boxes as it could just be what you're doing.

[saltydk]

And did you override any parts of the role?

[RaneyDazed]

No, I didn't add anything to inventory or anything like that. I just now had tried to run the role, made my user, went to export to disk directly without changing anything and it showed it worked fine, but nothing actually sent to disk. Then tried without the . before data and error again. I swear I'm not doing anything weird or changing odd stuff.

[saltydk]

are you removing the opt folder when you're reinstalling?

[RaneyDazed]

Yes. and both containers, image and volume the last time to be sure.

[saltydk]

Well, works fine on my dev box :D

[RaneyDazed]

I guess its something with my home server. 😞 sorry to waste all your time. Worked fine on my hetzner. just removed the . before /data/export and voila. ugh. My bad. Thought I was being helpful. 😓

[saltydk]

Well, at least you can compare the two setups and track down the cause.

[RaneyDazed]

yeah I'll need to see whats happening. Thanks for taking the time salty. I appreciate it!