Piwigo container resetting volume permissions

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I just recently started using the piwigo container put out by linuxserver.io on my Synology NAS. I noticed that whenever I restart the container, the permissions on the share folders that are mapped as volumes to the container always get their permissions reset so only the NAS’s administrators group & my NAS admin account have access to the folders.

The share is named “Forum Pics”, and it’s permissions are for the “Share - Forum pics” & “administrators” groups to have access. I’ve propagated those permissions down to all subfolders & files of the share (ie…piwigo pics & piwigo_virtual_upload"). However, whenever the container starts…it resets “piwigo pics” & “piwigo_virtual_upload”) to “adminstrators” & my admin account.

It also does the same thing to another share & subfolder that I map as a volume to the container.

Anyone ahve any idea why it’d be doing this? I dont like how a container is resetting my folder permissions.

TIA

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bumpity bump…

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Are you talking about the /config folder? If so, it will be owned by the PUID and PGID that you enter in environment variables

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nope. I"m talking about the actual volume folders on my NAS that get mounted to the container as volumes.

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I have other containers running with my local admin’s PUID & PGID pointed to other volume shares…and those containers don’t mess with the access permissions at all.

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You need to provide more information on how you setup the container on your NAS. Screenshots etc etc.

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ALL of the mounted volumes get their permissions messed up whenever the container restarts.

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piwigo2

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that’s because everything under /config mount needs to be owned by the container. It’s part of the start up routine.

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piwigo3

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piwigo4

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ooh really? dang, that I didn’t realize. Makes sense now that ya put it that way. (sorry @aptalca…what ya had said didn’t click in my head!)

is there a way to do a sym link or something for /gallery to point outside of config…which I can have mounted to those volumes?

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sure, for instance, you can mount the plex one as /plex inside the container

Then in /config/www/gallery, create a symlink that points to /plex

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okies. by chance…do you know how to do that on a Synology NAS? I’m far from being a linux/unix/*nix guru, or even knowledgable in it. But I can get around putty & all.

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in synology command line, exec into the container via ssh by
docker exec -it piwigo bash
then do ln -s /plex /config/www/gallery/plex

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Awesome…thx!

<<d*mn character limit>>

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gots another question for ya…
is the way piwigo starts up & taking ownership of the /config mount specific to piwigo? My other containers in docker don’t do that…the mounted volumes retain the permissions I’ve set on them.

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All linuxserver containers fix permissions in their config folders. That is required for the apps inside to function properly

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just wanted to update…finally got around to doing this. that symllink worked like a charm. Thx again @aptalca!

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I stuck at a similar problem:
Piwigo container: latest
MySQL:latest

Docker in Syno NAS. Managed by Portainer.

  1. Piwigo is running
  2. Able to import manually photos
  3. volume /gallery is mounted in the docker setup (as is defined in your container description)
    let say:
    volume:
  • /volumeX/docker/piwigo/gallery
  • /gallery

  1. I have centralised smb for photos. Let say

  2. symlink created by:
    `mount --bind ‘/volumeX/photo’ ‘/volumeX/docker/piwigo/gallery/galleries’
    also added into rc.local (to avoid symlinks lose after NAS restart)

  3. As expected, works. All photos are available at the ‘/volumeX/docker/piwigo/gallery/galleries’ folder

  • seen from the NAS
  • seen from Portainer/container console. The owner of the files/subfolder is ‘nginx’.

So what about sync into Piwigo DB?
7. Sync from Piwigo Admin/Tools/Synchronize

A. Expected behaviour: sync of ‘.galleries’ folder … follow the screenshot:

image
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Result:
WARNINGs (below)

  • 0 albums added in the database
  • 0 photos added in the database
  • 0 albums deleted in the database
  • 0 photos deleted from the database
  • 0 photos updated in the database
  • 0 errors during synchronization

Err.1:
opendir(./galleries): failed to open dir: Permission denied in /gallery/admin/include/functions.php on line 608
line 606:if (is_dir($path))
line 607: {
line 608: if ($contents = opendir($path))

seems to be a problem with the path

Err.2:
line 70: if (is_dir($path) && $contents = opendir($path) )

seems to be a problem with the path

PS:
all mounted folders/files contain only defined characters. to be sure

Thx for a help