SearXNG never started on rootless Docker — base install or instance, it
restart-looped from the first boot and the web UI was never reachable.
Cause is a specific capability combination, not a general permissions problem.
The image's entrypoint runs as root and, on first start, chowns the mounted
config dir to searxng:searxng (uid 977) using CHOWN, then immediately copies
settings.yml into the directory it has just given away. The compose dropped ALL
capabilities and added back only CHOWN, SETGID and SETUID — so the chown
succeeded and the write did not, because root cannot write to a 0755 directory
owned by another uid without DAC_OVERRIDE:
cp: can't create '/etc/searxng/settings.yml': Permission denied
!!! "/etc/searxng/settings.yml" is not a valid file, exiting...
Isolated the cause by running the image against fresh directories: it fails
with the shipped cap set and succeeds with DAC_OVERRIDE added, everything else
identical. Granting CHOWN without DAC_OVERRIDE is the exact breaking pair; all
other capabilities stay dropped.
Verified end to end: base install and a --local instance both come up and serve
200 on their own random ports, each with its own settings.yml and a distinct
secret_key. This also completes the instance verification that was blocked
earlier — searxng could not be runtime-tested while the app could not boot.
Both test installs were removed afterwards.
Separate pre-existing bug, not fixed here: the install hook applies the theme
with sed s/simple_style: auto/.../ but the generated settings.yml contains no
style keys at all, so the substitution matches nothing and CFG_SEARXNG_THEME
has never had any effect. Fixing it means inserting a ui: block rather than
replacing a line, which is a different mechanism and wants its own change.
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>
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>
