Need help installing benotes on synology

[Sylvio82]

Hi.
I am not a synology or docker expert, but I already installed some docker containers on my synology.
But I never tried to install a container like benotes.

1. wget -O .env https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fr0tt/benotes/master/.env.sqlite.example
This works. I downloaded this file on my windows machine

2. copy the content of this file into a new file called .env
This works. I copied the content of your file to a file called .env on my machine

3. edit .env by setting a random secret for APP_KEY (generated with e.g. openssl rand -base64 32) and JWT_SECRET
??? I dont know what to do here. I have to set a key, but what does the rest mean?

[fr0tt]

Hi,

you just have to set a random value for APP_KEY and JWT_SECRET

Feel free to ask again if you should have any more questions

[Sylvio82]

I think I have an elementary problem of understanding your guide.

Usually all my docker containers are in /volume1/docker/name_of_the_app. First thing I do is create an app folder in /docker and sometimes some subfolders like data, config... where everything is saved.

So usually my docker script looks like this:

docker container run -d --restart unless-stopped --name=tvheadend --net=host
-e PUID=1029
-e PGID=100
-e TZ=Europe/Berlin
-v /volume1/docker/tvheadend/recordings:/recordings
-v /volume1/docker/tvheadend/config:/config
-v /volume1/docker/tvheadend/picons:/picons
-v /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro
linuxserver/tvheadend:amd64-latest

And now I have no idea how the edit your script to start the container. If I start it without editing I get the error message:
docker: open ./volume1/docker/benotes/.env: no such file or directory (.env file is already copied to volume1/docker/benotes)

[fr0tt]

Did you have .../docker/benotes appropriate permissions in order for the container to write and read in it ?

Maybe this debate might be of help to you as well or the reason why it doesn't work with that image in the moment: #43

[Sylvio82]

I think I am too dumb to configure your script the right way :). I dont understand your volume variables. I added the correct uid to have rights for the docker folder.
My script looks like this now, but I get the following error: /bin/bash: line 3: -v: command not found

docker run -p 8000:80 -i --rm --name=benotes
-e USER_ID=1031
-e GROUP_ID=100 \
-v /volume1/docker/benotes/benotes_storage:/var/www/storage
-v "$(pwd)"/nginx/logs/:/var/lib/nginx/logs/
-v "$(pwd)"/.env:/var/www/.env
--env-file ./volume1/docker/benotes/.env
--name benotes fr0tt/benotes

[fr0tt]

I'm not exactly sure if that's the issue but in line 3 you use /volume1/... where as later you use ./volume1/...
Also you specify the name twice (in the first and last line).

But the bigger/next issue is that benotes_storage is supposed to be a named volume instead of a bind mount (because storage contains a lot of different subfolders). So you either change that or you really want to use bind mounts instead have a look at this

[Bag72]

I suspect that the reason you are getting the -v error is that you have the docker text in a script or are typing it in directly. If it is in a script you need a \ at the end of each line or it thinks it is a new command. so put a space and \ at the end of each line.
pwd gives the current directory so you may as well get rid of the "$(pwd)".

go to the directory you have your docker files in. Create a new one for benotes, move into it
mkdir benotes
cd benotes
copy your ,env into there
nano benotes.sh
put in
docker run -p 9975:80 -i --rm --name=benotes
-v ./benotes_storage:/var/www/storage
-v .env:/var/www/.env
fr0tt/benotes
Then execute it
sh benotes.sh
When done.
docker logs -f benotes
See what that shows and use c when you want to exit the log output It should stop on 'NOTICE: ready to handle connections'
Then try connecting to it in your browser I assume it will be on your for example http://123.123.123.123:9975

[Sylvio82]

Ok. I had some time to test a little more ;)
I tested my docker cli step by step until the first error appears. For now it looks like this:

docker run -p 5678:5678 -i --rm
-e USER_ID=1031
-e GROUP_ID=100
-v /volume1/docker/benotes/benotes_storage:/var/www/storage
-v "$(pwd)"/nginx/logs/:/var/lib/nginx/logs/
--name benotes fr0tt/benotes

I had to change the port, because I got the error: Bind for 0.0.0.0:8000 failed: port is already allocated. I also changed this port in the .env file.

I had to remove the t argument because I got the error: the input device is not a TTY

The latest error I get is: docker: Error response from daemon: Bind mount failed: '/root/nginx/logs' does not exists

What do I have to do here?

[fr0tt]

I assume you were in /root while executing this? You need to create a directory for this application and inside of it execute the docker run command.

Also your /volume1/docker/benotes/benotes_storage:/var/www/storage bind mount might not prevent the container from booting but it won't work properly. Have a look at my previous response.

[Sylvio82]

Sorry I cant follow your advice. I am not a docker expert, but I already installed a lot of docker containers (cli and compose), but yours is too complicated for me.
I really appreciate your effort for helping me, but I have to give up. Sorry

Is there anybody who got benotes running with docker on a synology?

[philipp-koch]

@Sylvio82, I struggled, too, but managed to overcome the problems, as documented here. Hope that helps.