Found by actually installing it. The compose bind-mounts
./resources/nginx.conf into the web container, but nothing ever copied
that file into the container tree, so Docker created a DIRECTORY in its
place and nginx died with:
error mounting ".../resources/nginx.conf" to rootfs at
"/etc/nginx/nginx.conf": not a directory
Worse than a hard failure: the app still recorded as installed. Three of
four containers came up, the DB and the app itself were fine, and only
the web front end was missing — a quiet, partial install.
Apps needing a resource file declare the copy in a hook (authelia does
exactly this); Nextcloud simply never had one. Adds
nextcloud_install_post_compose — after the compose file is written,
before permissions and `up` — which repairs any stub directory left by a
previous attempt and then copies the file.
The stub repair matters: without it the copy lands INSIDE the directory
(resources/nginx.conf/nginx.conf) and the mount fails identically.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Stepping 31 -> 32 -> 33 is arithmetic. Knowing 32 FINISHED before
touching 33 is the whole safety story, and it is invisible from outside
the app: Nextcloud runs its migration on boot and sits in maintenance
mode — or fails halfway — while Docker reports the container perfectly
healthy. Advance a rung there and a migration has been skipped on live
data.
Contract: <app>_upgrade_verify <app> <expected-tag> <deadline> -> 0
Returns 0 ONLY on positive confirmation that the app serves at the
expected version with nothing outstanding. Unhealthy, indeterminate and
timed-out all return non-zero — uncertainty is a failure, not a maybe,
because the alternative gambles with data.
nextcloud `occ status`: installed, NOT in maintenance, no pending DB
upgrade, and the running major matches the tag. Maintenance
mid-migration is expected and simply keeps waiting.
mastodon /health serving, ZERO "down" rows in db:migrate:status, and
the version from /api/v1/instance matching. /health alone is
insufficient — Puma answers before migrations finish.
stalwart /healthz/ready (per its documented probes), required to hold
stable rather than flash once. Weaker by design: the probes
confirm serving but report no version, and the file says so
rather than implying more.
updaterVerifyGeneric (running + healthy + no restart during a settle
window) is the fallback for everything else, and is explicitly NOT
sufficient to justify climbing a rung — the engine will refuse to ladder
an app with no declared verifier.
9 tests drive the dangerous states directly: maintenance mode, pending DB
upgrade, and a wrong major all correctly REFUSE to verify; clean states
pass. Those three negatives are the ones that would have corrupted data.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Both templates were stale in different ways, and the new tag enumeration
surfaced it: nextcloud sat on 31-fpm-alpine with 34 out, mastodon on
v4.2.0 with v4.6 out.
nextcloud 31-fpm-alpine -> 34-fpm-alpine
mastodon v4.2.0 -> v4.6
The mastodon one was the real problem: v4.2.0 is an EXACT patch pin, so
it never moved at all — no security patches, ever. v4.6 is a moving
minor-line tag (the same shape as stalwart's v0.16), so auto-update now
delivers patches within the line.
Deliberately NOT floated to :latest or :stable. Both projects require
stepped upgrades — Nextcloud in particular refuses to skip a major — so
a tag that crosses majors on its own would break the app on a routine
container recreate. A major-pinned, patch-moving tag is the correct
shape here, not a limitation.
Verified against the registry: all three pinned apps now report nothing
newer, and each tag still moves (v0.16 2026-08-10, 34-fpm-alpine
2026-08-03, v4.6 2026-08-06).
Templates only, so this changes NEW installs. Existing installs keep
their tag and will now be told a newer line exists.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds the decision half of the app updater. Detection (P2) and the
snapshot-first apply/revert (P3) were already real, but nothing ever
pressed the button — every update waited for a click.
CFG_<APP>_UPDATE_TYPE=auto|manual per app, default auto (33 templates)
CFG_UPDATER_AUTO=true|false master switch, default true
updaterAppPolicy resolves the two the way backupResolveStrategy already
resolves backup strategy: the global switch can only make things more
manual. updaterApplyAuto runs at the end of `updater check` and enqueues
the ordinary updater_apply task for each auto app that has an update —
never applies inline, so an automatic update is the same code path, task
log, History entry and Roll back button as a manual one.
Safety: each attempt stamps its target digest under generated/auto/, so a
build that fails is rolled back and then left alone rather than retried on
every scan; in-flight updater tasks are skipped so scans can't stack.
Tracked end to end: updates.json carries each app's resolved update_type,
History entries carry trigger=manual|auto. The WebUI says whether updates
install themselves, chips only the apps that opted out, labels automatic
history, and — since an auto app's pending update needs no decision — keeps
it off the Overview board's "Needs action" view.
Also fixes artifactApplyAuto enqueueing without --detach: it runs inside
the single-threaded task processor's own poll, so following the new task in
the foreground waits for a task that cannot start until it returns.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add a `#LIBREPORTAL|<APP>_VERSION_TAG|<current-tag>` sentinel to each app's
anchor (`<slug>-service`) image line, so a `CFG_<APP>_VERSION` config drives
that tag through the existing tagging system — the config becomes the source,
the compose tag is derived (like ports/IPs/domains already are). This is the
"install/pin a specific version" knob.
- Placeholder is the literal current tag (e.g. `31-fpm-alpine`), NOT a `*_DATA`
token: an unset var leaves the line untouched (inert comment, keeps the real
tag) and never trips the up_app stale-tag scanner.
- Only the anchor line is tagged (sidecars mariadb/redis/nginx stay
tracked-by-digest, not user-version-picked). ollama correctly targets
`ollama/ollama`, not the companion open-webui.
- Untagged anchors normalized to `:latest` (semantic no-op) so they're
templatable too. The manager (libreportal) is skipped — it updates via its
release channel, not a docker tag.
32 apps wired. Verified: CFG_NEXTCLOUD_VERSION=32 → `nextcloud:32` (prefix
preserved, idempotent, sidecars untouched); all compose files still valid YAML.
Inert until a version config is set, so no behaviour change on existing installs.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: librelad <librelad@digitalangels.vip>
Tool descriptions were leaking internal vocabulary (Django superuser,
Postgres bcrypt update, htpasswd in protectionauth.yml, gitea admin
user change-password CLI, trusted_domains list, …) and repeating the
label as a full sentence. Beginners don't care, and even experienced
users don't need the CLI name to know what a button does.
Rewrites every tool description to a single short sentence plain
enough that a first-time installer can read it without context.
Conventions applied across the board:
- One sentence, sentence-case
- Plain English: "Set a new password", "Add a new user",
"Permanently remove a user", "List every user"
- "Leave blank to generate one" only where it's actually useful
(password fields), and matches the field placeholder text
- No CLI names, no schema field names, no internal file paths
- Destructive actions stop saying "permanently" twice (the action
label + the confirm modal already cover that)
- Field placeholders harmonised: "Leave blank for random" /
"Leave blank to generate" → consistently "Leave blank to generate"
Touched files (descriptions only — no logic, no fields removed):
containers/adguard/tools/adguard.tools.json
containers/bookstack/tools/bookstack.tools.json
containers/dashy/tools/dashy.tools.json
containers/focalboard/tools/focalboard.tools.json
containers/gitea/tools/gitea.tools.json
containers/gluetun/tools/gluetun.tools.json
containers/invidious/tools/invidious.tools.json
containers/linkding/tools/linkding.tools.json
containers/nextcloud/tools/nextcloud.tools.json
containers/pihole/tools/pihole.tools.json
containers/traefik/tools/traefik.tools.json
Signed-off-by: librelad <librelad@digitalangels.vip>
Finishes the installApp refactor started in d941f59 (Wave A). Every app
whose <app>.sh was either pure boilerplate (Wave B) or boilerplate +
small custom logic (Wave C) now routes through the generic driver in
scripts/app/install/app_install.sh; bespoke logic moved to declarative
hooks in containers/<app>/scripts/<app>_install_hooks.sh.
Net: ~4,000 lines of duplicated 10-step sequence gone. From 31 per-app
.sh files (pre-Wave-A) down to 2 intentional keepers.
DELETED outright (pure boilerplate — driver replaces them identically):
jellyfin, mastodon, focalboard, ipinfo, speedtest, dashy, invidious,
nextcloud, ollama, vaultwarden, pihole
DELETED + hook-extracted (small bespoke step preserved in a hook):
bookstack, moneyapp, owncloud, trilium, searxng, gitea, headscale,
unbound, prometheus, grafana, gluetun, wireguard, jitsimeet, authelia,
traefik, adguard, onlyoffice
KEPT (intentional special cases):
crowdsec — host-app pattern (no docker compose, runs as apt+
systemd via installCrowdsecHost; uninstall/stop/
restart hooks already live in this file and are
invoked by dockerUninstall/Stop/RestartApp directly).
libreportal — WebUI bootstrap. Pre-compose image build + post-install
webuiLibrePortalUpdate + bootstrap-time suppression of
menuShowFinalMessages don't fit the generic flow.
Driver change — scripts/app/install/app_install.sh:
Moved monitoringToggleAppConfig "$app_name" "docker-compose.yml" from
the post-start integrations block into the install body at post-compose
(right after dockerComposeSetupFile, before docker-compose up). The
toggle edits the compose file on disk — running it after start meant
the container had already been brought up with the unmodified compose,
so the metrics endpoint wouldn't reflect CFG_<APP>_MONITORING until
the next restart. Matches the original ordering in every per-app .sh
that used to call it inline.
Hook surface (declare-f-gated, silent no-op when absent):
<slug>_install_pre before any install work
<slug>_install_post_setup after dockerConfigSetupToContainer
<slug>_install_post_compose after dockerComposeSetupFile (+ the
shared monitoring toggle on the compose)
<slug>_install_post_start after dockerComposeUpdateAndStartApp
<slug>_install_message_data echoes extra argv for menuShowFinalMessages
<slug>_install_post very last thing, after the final message
+ the existing _uninstall_pre/_post, _stop_post, _restart_post
Notable extractions:
bookstack — _install_post_start: probe :PORT_1/login until 200/302,
then `bookstack:create-admin` inside the container with
CFG_BOOKSTACK_ADMIN_{EMAIL,PASSWORD}; falls back to the
seeded admin@admin.com on timeout.
adguard — _install_post_start drives the wizard's HTTP API
(POST /control/install/configure) so the admin doesn't
click through five pages, then pins the admin bind back
to 0.0.0.0:3000 (matches the compose mapping) and health
checks. _install_message_data echoes user/password to
menuShowFinalMessages.
authelia — _install_pre requirements; _install_post_compose copies
configuration.yml + users_database.yml, substitutes
theme/domain/host, generates JWT/session/storage secrets,
toggles monitoring on configuration.yml; _install_post_start
argon2-hashes the admin password via the container, writes
users_database.yml, restarts; _install_post echoes creds.
traefik — _install_pre prompts for the LE email if CFG_TRAEFIK_EMAIL
is unset; _install_post_compose copies static + dynamic
configs, wires CFG_TRAEFIK_DASHBOARD_ACCESS (local-only /
domain-only / public), toggles monitoring on traefik.yml,
then traefikUpdateWhitelist + traefikSetupLoginCredentials.
wireguard — _install_pre host-conflict guard (/etc/wireguard/params);
_install_post_compose persists CFG_WIREGUARD_SUBNET,
resolves WG_HOST (domain+traefik → host_setup, else IP),
runs runAppCfg wireguard-ip-forward; _install_post_start
restarts after wg-easy installs its iptables rules.
jitsimeet — _install_post_setup downloads the tagged release zip from
GitHub; _install_post_compose mass-edits the .env and runs
gen-passwords.sh; _install_post_start rewrites nginx
default site to usedport1/2 + restart.
prometheus — _install_post_compose seeds prometheus.yml under
$containers_dir/prometheus/prometheus/; _install_post_start
sets 0777 on storage dirs so the container TSDB can write
regardless of host UID mapping.
grafana — _install_pre requirements; _install_post_start 0777 on
grafana_storage.
gluetun — _install_post_start refreshes the provider snapshot,
reattaches every routed app (the netns container ID is
stale after gluetun gets recreated), then prompts to
onboard any existing apps.
+ the smaller bookstack-shape extractions for owncloud (version scrape),
trilium / searxng (wait-for-first-boot-config), gitea (Prometheus
bearer token sync), headscale / unbound (config copy), moneyapp
(Auth.js AUTH_URL), onlyoffice (compose-resolved user/pass into the
final message).
Manifest + arrays regenerated. Verified end-to-end:
- bash -n on every hook file + the driver: clean
- Each hook file sources cleanly in a subshell, exposes only the
intended functions, flagged lazy-loadable (not eager)
- Smoke-stubbed install run for jellyfin (pure), nextcloud (pure),
bookstack (hooked), crowdsec (kept): correct dispatch in all cases —
deleted apps route to installApp, kept apps still hit their real
function
Signed-off-by: librelad <librelad@digitalangels.vip>
The hardcoded uid:gid in libreportal.backup.files labels was brittle: matched the
default PUID in the compose, but a PUID change (or new image version) would drift
silently and the next restore would chown to a stale owner. Make it impossible to
drift by letting the engine learn the uid at capture time.
backup_files.sh:
- After a successful tar capture, run `stat -c '%u:%g'` inside the container and
write the result to a <host_subdir>.lp-owner sidecar in staging. The sidecar
rides in the snapshot alongside the captured tree.
- Restore reads it back when the descriptor doesn't pin uid:gid; falls back to
0:0 with a clear notice if missing.
- The 5-field form (with explicit uid:gid) is still supported as an override; it
wins and skips the sidecar write entirely.
Update all 4 current labels to the new 3-field form
"<container>:<container_path>:<host_subdir>" (nextcloud, bookstack, gitea,
owncloud). Engine handles both formats during the transition.
Verified with stubs: 3-field capture writes the sidecar with the discovered
33:33; restore reads it back; 5-field override correctly skips the sidecar
write. backup_files.sh parses.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: librelad <librelad@digitalangels.vip>
Three closeouts in one pass:
1. DEVELOPMENT.md — consolidated hook-conventions table covering all 8 per-app
hook types (tools / update-specifics / compose-tags / webui-refresh / the two
traefik markers / the two network-provider hooks). One place to look instead
of inferring from the codebase.
2. Nextcloud APCu wired alongside Redis: appUpdateSpecifics_nextcloud now sets
memcache.local=\OC\Memcache\APCu too (was deferred from the fpm switch). APCu
= cheap in-process cache; the fpm-alpine image ships the extension. CLI mode
may emit a harmless "no memory cache" notice on `occ` runs — Nextcloud is
graceful, the FPM worker still uses APCu fine.
3. Container-side file-capture rollout to 3 confident cases:
- bookstack: lscr.io/linuxserver/bookstack with PUID=1000 → /config (1000:1000)
- gitea: gitea/gitea with USER_UID=1000 → /data (1000:1000)
- owncloud: owncloud/server (Apache/PHP) → /mnt/data (33:33, www-data)
Snapshots are now complete for these (the dir's excluded from the raw restic
pass and captured live through the container as a tar → libreportal-owned
staging, same proven pattern as Nextcloud). Less-evidenced candidates left
for live verification: linkding, mastodon, jellyfin, trilium, focalboard,
invidious, vaultwarden, headscale-service — each needs its in-container uid
confirmed before labeling (wrong uid won't break backup, but restore would
chown to the wrong owner).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: librelad <librelad@digitalangels.vip>
Drop Apache+mod_php for the actual performance win — nginx + PHP-FPM — without
the LinuxServer image cascade (custom auto-install, /custom-cont-init.d, abc-vs-
www-data rewrites in the auth adapter + every tool, HTTPS-by-default quirks).
The official fpm-alpine image keeps env-var auto-install and the www-data user,
so the auth adapter, all tools, and the compose-tags hook keep working unchanged.
- Compose: nextcloud-service is now fpm-alpine (still container_name=nextcloud-
service so docker exec ... nextcloud-service php occ in the auth adapter is
untouched). New nextcloud-web nginx sidecar serves :80 over the shared ./html
volume, terminating FastCGI to nextcloud-service:9000. Traefik labels + PORTS_
TAG_1 move to nextcloud-web (the HTTP face); backup.files stays on -service
(the file-owning brain). nextcloud-db + nextcloud-redis unchanged.
- resources/nginx.conf: Nextcloud's recommended nginx config, trimmed for
behind-Traefik (no TLS), large-upload + caldav/carddav/.well-known redirects.
- scripts/nextcloud_update_specifics.sh: NEW post-install hook —
appUpdateSpecifics_nextcloud waits for first-boot occ install to complete
(config.php + occ status=installed), then wires Redis as memcache.distributed
+ memcache.locking via occ config:system:set. Idempotent.
Auto-install is unchanged (official image's NEXTCLOUD_ADMIN_USER + MYSQL_* env
flow). Redis caching now actually USED by Nextcloud (previously the container
was up but config.php had no memcache config). Container-side backup capture
still the right answer for the perm boundary — image change doesn't affect it.
Verified statically: yaml structure, hook parses + dispatches + has the right
graceful-timeout fallback when occ isn't reachable. Live verification (sync
performance + actual Redis hit rate + traefik proxy of FastCGI) needs a fresh
install on a throwaway box.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: librelad <librelad@digitalangels.vip>
docker_config_setup_data.sh's "App Specific" if/elif ladder (pihole, nextcloud,
searxng, speedtest, vaultwarden, wireguard, gluetun) becomes a generic hook
dispatch: an app needing computed (non-CFG) compose tags ships
containers/<app>/scripts/<app>_compose_tags.sh defining appSetupComposeTags_<app>
(live-sourced by the container scan, called with the compose path; reads
host_setup/public_ip_v4/CFG_* from scope). Same declare -F pattern as the tool /
update-specifics / webui-refresh hooks.
- 7 per-app hook files added; central ladder replaced by the dispatch.
- The generic gluetun network-mode block stays (any app may route through gluetun);
tagsProcessorGluetunForwardedPorts stays central (hook + network-mode both use it).
- Regenerate arrays (hooks live under containers/, not arrayed).
Verified with stubs: each hook emits exactly the tags the old branch did
(pihole REV_SERVER, nextcloud trusted-domains, gluetun VPN set + forwarded ports,
etc.); apps without a hook are a clean no-op.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: librelad <librelad@digitalangels.vip>
Each app now carries everything under containers/<app>/: Tools-tab actions in
tools/ (declaration <app>.tools.json + function <app>_<tool_id>.sh) and logic
helpers in scripts/ (e.g. <app>_auth.sh). The container scan live-sources every
.sh under the app (maxdepth 3, prunes only resources/) and webui_tools.sh
auto-merges the .tools.json, so an app is a true drop-in — no central edit, no
array regen.
- Empty the central webui_tools.sh heredoc; all 34 tools across 11 apps now
come from per-app declarations (verified byte-identical to the old output).
- Retire the orphaned mattermost tool scripts to scripts/unused (there is no
containers/mattermost; its install fn already lived in unused).
- Update the dispatch comment/error path, the auth-adapter doc, and
DEVELOPMENT.md to the new convention.
- Regenerate static arrays (files_app.sh no longer lists app/containers/*).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: librelad <librelad@digitalangels.vip>
Reads files the backup user can't see from the host (container-owned, e.g.
Nextcloud's www-data data dir) by streaming them out THROUGH the container
(docker exec tar) — no host root, no host read perms, works rooted + rootless.
Extracts to staging as plain files so restic keeps full dedup + per-file
restore (not a piped tar blob); the live path is excluded from the snapshot.
Restore streams the staging copy back through a throwaway in-namespace
container that recreates the tree with the app's uid:gid.
Declared via a libreportal.backup.files compose label; Nextcloud (html, 33:33)
is the first to use it. Live capture failure falls back to stop-snapshot-start.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: librelad <librelad@digitalangels.vip>
Adds CFG_<APP>_BACKUP_STRATEGY (default auto) so an app's backup strategy can
be overridden from its Advanced config tab, taking precedence over the global
default. Added to the 10 live-capable apps, so the dropdown's 'live' option only
appears where it actually works.
- backupResolveStrategy now checks the per-app override before the global value.
- backupAppLiveCapable / backupAppStrategyOptions expose capability + the valid
option set; predicate helpers hardened with explicit returns so they behave
identically with or without shell errexit.
- BACKUP_STRATEGY field mapping (select, advanced) renders the dropdown.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: librelad <librelad@digitalangels.vip>
- Add libreportal.backup.db labels to the MariaDB/Postgres apps (nextcloud,
owncloud, bookstack, mastodon, invidious) so they back up live + consistent.
- If a declared dump cannot be taken (DB down, wrong path), the backup falls
back to stop-snapshot-start for that run instead of snapshotting torn data —
a misconfiguration degrades to 'safe with downtime', never to 'unsafe'.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: librelad <librelad@digitalangels.vip>
The static per-app CFG_<APP>_HOST_NAME is gone. host_setup (the app's
canonical FQDN, feeding the legacy single DOMAINSUBNAME_DATA used by app env
vars, the app URL and trusted-domains) is now derived from the app's primary
Traefik port's subdomain: first recommended port, else first Traefik port;
@/root -> apex, set -> sub.domain, empty -> app-name. Removes HOST_NAME from
all app configs, the config-form field mapping (Hostname), the dead
headscale stub, and wireguard.sh (now uses host_setup). Completes the move to
dynamic per-port subdomain routing.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: librelad <librelad@digitalangels.vip>
Replace the static one-host-per-app model with per-port routers: each
Traefik-managed port carries a subdomain (12-col PORT format) and gets a
DOMAINSUBNAME_TAG_<n> host, so one container can serve unlimited hosts.
tagsProcessorPortSubdomains stamps per-port hosts (subdomain @/empty = apex,
multi-level allowed); tagsProcessorPortRouterBlocks comments out
# TRAEFIK_PORT_<n>_BEGIN/END blocks for non-Traefik ports so unfilled
placeholders never ship (mirrors GLUETUN_OFF). Convert all 27 router apps
(subdomains seeded from HOST_NAME; headscale admin. prefix -> subdomain).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: librelad <librelad@digitalangels.vip>
A free, open, self-hosted app platform (GNU AGPLv3): one-click app deploys,
Traefik reverse proxy with automatic SSL, rootless Docker support, gluetun
VPN routing, and a web dashboard to manage it all.
Free & open forever to self-host; optional paid hosted services fund it.
See PROMISE.md.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: librelad <librelad@digitalangels.vip>
