fixing permissions, simplyfying the start.sh script

.env

@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+#GLOBAL
+APP_DATA_LOCATION=/path/to/docker_appdata
+APP_CONFIG_LOCATION=/path/to/docker_config
+LOGS_LOCATION=/path/to/logs
+
+

Dockerfile

@@ -34,9 +34,7 @@ RUN ln -s /home/pi/pialert/install/index.html /var/www/html/index.html \
 
 EXPOSE 20211
 
-# https://github.com/rtsp/docker-lighttpd/blob/main/Dockerfile
+# it's easy for permissions set in Git to be overridden, so doing it manually
-# > this one maybe better? https://hub.docker.com/r/jitesoft/lighttpd
+RUN chmod -R a+rxw /home/pi/pialert/
-# Todo, refacto CMD so that we can run lighttpd and make it respond instant
-# The above Dockerfile is doing this well, but i don't see why it isn't working for us
 
 CMD ["/home/pi/pialert/dockerfiles/start.sh"]

docker-compose.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+version: "3"
+services:
+  pialert:
+    build: .
+    container_name: pialert_dev
+    network_mode: "host"
+    restart: always
+    volumes:
+      - ${APP_DATA_LOCATION}/pialert/config:/home/pi/pialert/config
+      - ${APP_DATA_LOCATION}/pialert/db/pialert.db:/home/pi/pialert/db/pialert.db
+      - ${LOGS_LOCATION}/tmp:/home/pi/pialert/log
+    environment:
+      - TZ=France/Paris
+      - HOST_USER_ID=1036
+      - HOST_USER_GID=1000

dockerfiles/start.sh

@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 /home/pi/pialert/dockerfiles/user-mapping.sh
-# probably too broad permissions
+
-chmod -R 755 /home/pi/pialert  
+
-chmod -R 755 /var/www/html/pialert
+#chmod -R 755 /var/www/html/pialert
-chmod -R o+w /home/pi/pialert/db
+#chmod -R o+w /home/pi/pialert/db
 /etc/init.d/lighttpd start
-service cron start && tail -f /dev/null
+cron -f