Posts by claredad

Quote from bermuda

Check your logs. You find them here /srv/dev-disk-by-uuid-4e25905a-885d-4f57-81ce-5ffdc47d0304/appdata/swag/log/

Somehow ACME can't reach your Host/Swag-Container. Looking at your port-forwarding, you forward from your gateway port 80 to your docker hosting PC port 81 and from that to your swag-container port 80. It all looks ok.

Maybe the logs will shed some light on what the problem could be.

Your Nextcloud configuration needs some attention too. Don't use the subfolder in:

'overwrite.cli.url' => 'https://claredad.duckdns.org/nextcloud' ... this should only contain your URL:

'overwrite.cli.url' => 'https://claredad.duckdns.org'
You also need to set up an subfolder-config inside swag/nginx/proxy-confs. There is a sample for nextcloud there too.

But that has noting to do with the certificate. This is just FYI.

There are tons of instructions on the net how to do that. This also goes for nextcloud's config.php.

EDIT:

Your duckdns token is only used to update your IP via a dyndns-client like ddclient. It has nothing to do with the certificate.

I guess you have something like that already set up, either as a docker or on your gateway/router?

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Thanks Bermuda. I played around for a while and finally got it going by creating a new domain called claredad2 on duckdns. work straight away.

Also thats for the heads up on my config file. I missed a few steps in the setup. Resolved now.

Quote from bermuda

Hello.

"http" validation via ACME requires you to have the validation done on port 80.

You will have to forward your gateways external port 80 to your host/container's port 80.

UPDATE:

Actually your port configuration is ok.

But you have to configure your duckdns.org domain differently.

- URL=claredad.duckdns.org

and forget (delete) the subdomain, you don't have one in that sense.

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Thanks Bermuda.

I updated by Portainer stack:

  swag:
    image: linuxserver/swag         #swag is the replacement for letsencrypt (see link below)
    container_name: swag
    cap_add:
      - NET_ADMIN
    environment:
      - PUID=1002 #change PUID if needed
      - PGID=100  #change PGID if needed
      - TZ=Europe/Dublin # change Time Zone if needed
      - URL=claredad.duckdns.org #insert your domain name - yourdomain.url
      - VALIDATION=http
      - EMAIL=claredad@gmail.com # define email; required to renew certificate
    volumes:
      - /srv/dev-disk-by-uuid-4e25905a-885d-4f57-81ce-5ffdc47d0304/appdata/swag:/config  #/srv/dev-disk-by-label-disk1 needs to be adjusted
    ports:
      - 444:443
      - 81:80
    restart: unless-stopped

And my config file:

$CONFIG = array (
    'datadirectory' => '/data',
                'trusted_proxies' =>
  array (
    0 => 'swag',
  ),
  'overwritewebroot' => '/nextcloud',
  'overwrite.cli.url' => 'https://claredad.duckdns.org/nextcloud',
  'trusted_domains' =>
  array (
    0 => 'your.url:443',
  ),
);

When I run docker logs -f swag, I still get the same error:

using keys found in /config/keys
Variables set:
PUID=1002
PGID=100
TZ=Europe/Dublin
URL=claredad.duckdns.org
SUBDOMAINS=
EXTRA_DOMAINS=
ONLY_SUBDOMAINS=false
VALIDATION=http
CERTPROVIDER=
DNSPLUGIN=
EMAIL=claredad@gmail.com
STAGING=

Using Let's Encrypt as the cert provider
E-mail address entered: ger.finan@gmail.com
http validation is selected
Generating new certificate
Saving debug log to /config/log/letsencrypt/letsencrypt.log
Requesting a certificate for claredad.duckdns.org

Certbot failed to authenticate some domains (authenticator: standalone). The Certificate Authority reported these problems:
  Domain: claredad.duckdns.org
  Type:   connection
  Detail: xxx.xx.xxx.xx: Fetching http://claredad.duckdns.org/.well-known/acme-challenge/alphanumeric: Timeout during connect (likely firewall problem)

Hint: The Certificate Authority failed to download the challenge files from the temporary standalone webserver started by Certbot on port 80. Ensure that the listed domains point to this machine and that it can accept inbound connections from the internet.

Some challenges have failed.
Ask for help or search for solutions at https://community.letsencrypt.org. See the logfile /config/log/letsencrypt/letsencrypt.log or re-run Certbot with -v for more details.
ERROR: Cert does not exist! Please see the validation error above. The issue may be due to incorrect dns or port forwarding settings. Please fix your settings and recreate the container

the IP address showing in the certbot fail message is the correct IP address I see on duckdns, so I guess it's seeing my domain OK. I haven't used my duckdns token anyplace in setup. Is that right or did I miss a step?

Hi all.

Having an issue that I'm hoping the knowledgeable people here can help me with. I've installed the stack in Portainer and all looks OK.

I ran the code:

docker logs -f swag

I get the error:

using keys found in /config/keys
Variables set:
PUID=1002
PGID=100
TZ=Europe/Dublin
URL=duckdns.org
SUBDOMAINS=claredad,
EXTRA_DOMAINS=
ONLY_SUBDOMAINS=false
VALIDATION=http
CERTPROVIDER=
DNSPLUGIN=
EMAIL=claredad@gmail.com
STAGING=

Using Let's Encrypt as the cert provider
SUBDOMAINS entered, processing
Sub-domains processed are: claredad.duckdns.org
E-mail address entered: claredad@gmail.com
http validation is selected
Generating new certificate
Saving debug log to /config/log/letsencrypt/letsencrypt.log
Requesting a certificate for duckdns.org and claredad.duckdns.org

Certbot failed to authenticate some domains (authenticator: standalone). The Certificate Authority reported these problems:
  Domain: claredad.duckdns.org
  Type:   connection
  Detail: xxx.xx.xxx.xx: Fetching http://claredad.duckdns.org/.well-known/acme-challenge/alphanumeric: Timeout during connect (likely firewall problem)

  Domain: duckdns.org
  Type:   connection
  Detail: x.xx.xx.xx: Fetching http://duckdns.org/.well-known/acme-challenge/alphanumeric: Timeout during connect (likely firewall problem)

Hint: The Certificate Authority failed to download the challenge files from the temporary standalone webserver started by Certbot on port 80. Ensure that the listed domains point to this machine and that it can accept inbound connections from the internet.

Some challenges have failed.
Ask for help or search for solutions at https://community.letsencrypt.org. See the logfile /config/log/letsencrypt/letsencrypt.log or re-run Certbot with -v for more details.
ERROR: Cert does not exist! Please see the validation error above. The issue may be due to incorrect dns or port forwarding settings. Please fix your settings and recreate the container

Here's the code I ran in Portainer (anywhere you see my username, claredad, I've typed that in to mask the real value):

version: "2"
services:
  nextcloud:
    image: ghcr.io/linuxserver/nextcloud
    container_name: nextcloud
    environment:
      - PUID=1002 #change PUID if needed
      - PGID=100  #change PGID if needed
      - TZ=Europe/Dublin #change Time Zone if needed
    volumes:
      - /srv/dev-disk-by-uuid-4e25905a-885d-4f57-81ce-5ffdc47d0304/appdata/nextcloud/config:/config #/srv/dev-disk-by-label-disk1 needs to be adjusted
      - /srv/dev-disk-by-uuid-4e25905a-885d-4f57-81ce-5ffdc47d0304/appdata/nextcloud/data:/data     #/srv/dev-disk-by-label-disk1 needs to be adjusted
    depends_on:
      - mariadb
#    ports: # uncomment this and the next line if you want to bypass the proxy
#      - 450:443
    restart: unless-stopped
  mariadb:
    image: ghcr.io/linuxserver/mariadb
    container_name: nextclouddb
    environment:
      - PUID=1002 #change PUID if needed
      - PGID=100  #change PGID if needed
      - MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=hidden #change password
      - TZ=Europe/Dublin #Change Time Zone if needed
    volumes:
      - /srv/dev-disk-by-uuid-4e25905a-885d-4f57-81ce-5ffdc47d0304/appdata/nextclouddb:/config    #/srv/dev-disk-by-label-disk1 needs to be adjusted
    restart: unless-stopped
  swag:
    image: linuxserver/swag         #swag is the replacement for letsencrypt (see link below)
    container_name: swag
    cap_add:
      - NET_ADMIN
    environment:
      - PUID=1002 #change PUID if needed
      - PGID=100  #change PGID if needed
      - TZ=Europe/Dublin # change Time Zone if needed
      - URL=duckdns.org #insert your domain name - yourdomain.url
      - SUBDOMAINS=claredad,
      - VALIDATION=http
      - EMAIL=claredad@gmail.com # define email; required to renew certificate
    volumes:
      - /srv/dev-disk-by-uuid-4e25905a-885d-4f57-81ce-5ffdc47d0304/appdata/swag:/config  #/srv/dev-disk-by-label-disk1 needs to be adjusted
    ports:
      - 444:443
      - 81:80
    restart: unless-stopped

I assume the issue is to do with the way I've added duckdns to Swag. I could be doing something ridiculous here and trying to replace a car tyre with a fishing rod I know the great community here will set me right.

Thanks in advance.

Quote from Zoki

Can you show a screen shot of the file systems screen?

As a bad workaround, you can install the sharerootfs plugin and share the directory /srv/dev-disk-by-uuid-5848A60B225D9CB1 if you only need the shared folder temporarily.

Sorry about the delay Zoki. I was away for a little. Please see the image attached.

Quote from randomUser1234

Ok, in this case, it should be relatively straight forward.

First, you must be sure that the drive is detected in the disks menu in OMV. You may have to hit the refresh button and maybe even reboot, if at all possible.

Then you must mount the file system on that drive in the corresponding menu. Then you can use it for a shared folder. Remember for sharing it, you must create a Shared Folder as well as an SMB or NFS share using the Shared Folder.

Thanks for the feedback. I'm with the steps you listed except the one to set up the shared folder. When I go to the device drop down, my external USB isn't present.

I've previously set up shared drives on internal drive like you described, and have never had an issue.

Quote from raulfg3

NTFS is only recommended for first time copy to NAS, if you want to use an external USB disk , better to format it like ext4, to avoid problems like you have.

Other way is to plug the disk on your windows PC, and copy data by SMB, and share it on your windows PC.

I originally used ext4, but got the exact same issue.

I worked around it by using the rsync command over SSH, but that's a once off sync, where as I'm hoping to set it up to do scheduled syncs in future.

Quote from randomUser1234

If I understand you correctly, you want to share a folder from the drive on which OMV is installed. This is not allowed by default but you can do it by installing the "openmediavault-sharerootfs" plugin. Then the drive should appear as a choice.

Thanks for the response. Afraid that's not what I'm looking to do.

I have an external USB drive that is just for storage. I want to create a shared folder on that external drive. Hope that makes sense.

Hi all.

I'm I've connected my USB drive (formatted as NTFS) to by system.

I can mount the drive in the GUI (I've seen that mounting from the command line can cause issues).

When I go to create a shared folder using the GUI, my USB drive doesn't appear in the list of devices.

Am I doing something wrong?

Below is the output from my fstab. the device in question is /dev/disk/by-uuid/5848A60B225D9CB1

  GNU nano 3.2                                                                                                     /etc/fstab                                                                                                               

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
# / was on /dev/sda1 during installation
UUID=f777d7c2-dcd9-443a-9fb4-825c090af158 /               ext4    errors=remount-ro 0       1
# swap was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=da7a86b4-3227-4443-908f-b763dd2e5367 none            swap    sw              0       0
# >>> [openmediavault]
/dev/disk/by-uuid/9a39f404-4671-4f25-8a0d-aa2d86e5d5f7          /srv/dev-disk-by-uuid-9a39f404-4671-4f25-8a0d-aa2d86e5d5f7      ext4    defaults,nofail,user_xattr,usrjquota=aquota.user,grpjquota=aquota.group,jqfmt=vfsv0,acl 0 2
/dev/disk/by-uuid/b00b709e-2403-47c1-a977-1fabf3ef1e9d          /srv/dev-disk-by-uuid-b00b709e-2403-47c1-a977-1fabf3ef1e9d      ext4    defaults,nofail,user_xattr,usrjquota=aquota.user,grpjquota=aquota.group,jqfmt=vfsv0,acl 0 2
/dev/disk/by-uuid/0f4fbb9f-1bdb-4783-b12f-2f6947c742e7          /srv/dev-disk-by-uuid-0f4fbb9f-1bdb-4783-b12f-2f6947c742e7      ext4    defaults,nofail,user_xattr,usrjquota=aquota.user,grpjquota=aquota.group,jqfmt=vfsv0,acl 0 2
/dev/disk/by-uuid/37809bb0-77f9-430e-9b2c-399c18e6501a          /srv/dev-disk-by-uuid-37809bb0-77f9-430e-9b2c-399c18e6501a      ext4    defaults,nofail,user_xattr,usrjquota=aquota.user,grpjquota=aquota.group,jqfmt=vfsv0,acl 0 2
/dev/disk/by-uuid/353e1291-284a-4231-852c-62f876e8a0d2          /srv/dev-disk-by-uuid-353e1291-284a-4231-852c-62f876e8a0d2      ext4    defaults,nofail,user_xattr,usrjquota=aquota.user,grpjquota=aquota.group,jqfmt=vfsv0,acl 0 2
/dev/disk/by-uuid/027A5D6B7A5D5C8B              /srv/dev-disk-by-uuid-027A5D6B7A5D5C8B  ntfs    defaults,nofail 0 2
/dev/disk/by-uuid/5848A60B225D9CB1              /srv/dev-disk-by-uuid-5848A60B225D9CB1  ntfs    defaults,nofail,big_writes      0 2
/srv/dev-disk-by-uuid-0f4fbb9f-1bdb-4783-b12f-2f6947c742e7/Storage:/srv/dev-disk-by-uuid-9a39f404-4671-4f25-8a0d-aa2d86e5d5f7/Storage_6TB2              /srv/5ff686ed-d7b2-48fc-bd37-de20902fa577       fuse.mergerfs   defaults,allow_othe$
# <<< [openmediavault]

Quote from mi-hol

what would you use it for?

Seems a quite expensive storage option for a budget NAS.
Also looking at energy consumption a DELL Optiplex doesn't look like the best option for running Home Assistant.

Did you measure energy consumption over a week or so?

Won't just be for downloads, also for running some VMs.

Problem I'm having at the moment is if I want to download big files of 60 GB etc, I just don't have the space.

I've been running the NAS for a while, so it's more a budget upgrade rather than build 😃

I have the 1TB and 6TB drives purchased, so it be any future purchases that will need to be budgeted for.

I haven't used an energy meter on it yet. Will do so and come back to you. Thanks for the advice.

Hi all.

Looking for some help.

I currently have a Dell Optiplex 7010 with four hard drives. A 128gb SSD (split in two partitions for OS and app data), as well as three 6TB NAS drives in a Mergerfs configuration for my storage.

I'm out of space on the storage, and purchased a new 6TB NAS drive to add it to the Mergerfs.

I need to add expansion to get the SATA connections for the new hard drive, but before i do this, I'm wondering if I'm going about this the right way.

I'm planning on moving me OS to a USB stick, and upgrading the SSD to a 1TB one.

I want to plan for the longer-term. I'll probably be adding more drives every year or so.

Any suggestions on what I should do long term? Should I invest in expansion of my Optiplex? Or go for something different in the long term? Unfortunately Im out of budget at the moment after buying the SSD and 6TB NAS drive.
I currently use my server primarily as a media server with dockers for Emby, Sonarr, Radarr and Jackett.

My intention is to use it as an NVR also, as well as using it for Home Assistant. In an ideal world I'd also life to run something like pfsense as a VM.

Any suggestions are welcome.

Quote from macom

And updates. But still not important.

Just make sure to install the flashmemory plugin to significantly reduce the writes of log files to the thumb drive. I also use it for ssd.

In case you still want to use the ssd:

Would you now know what to do?

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Ya, think I have it. Thanks for the help.

Quote from chente

You will only notice the speed at startup. Then it gets loaded into RAM, so it's the same. How many times do you restart the server? It is a very common practice.

I very rarely restart. is there a certain amount of RAM I should have?

Quote from chente

And why not use a USB memory for OMV and the SSD drive for docker, KVM, etc? In this way you will have the S.O. separate from everything else. You can also easily make OMV backups if you need them.

Would it be considered best practice to use a USB rather than a partition on an SSD? Would there be any speed differences?

Quote from macom

I would suggest to use clonezilla to clone the drive and then gparted to resize the partition.

But why do you need a larger OS drive?

Thanks Macom.

Poor choice of words on my side. I have my an SSD that has two partitions. One for OS and one for downloads.

I had intended to install proxmox and OMV within that, but when researching here saw that there is a plugin to allow me run VMs in OMV. So I'm going to be running a Windows VM from the larger SSD, and possibly some Linux distros like Qubes or TAILS.

Does that make sense, or am I talking rubbish 🙈

Hi.

I've gotten a new harddrive, and want to migrate my OS from the existing SSD to the larger one. What's the best way to do this?

Thanks.

Ger

Quote from crashtest

Small donations work well and are fine. While the software is free, there are costs associated with server hosting. (Like this forum, for example.)

I managed to set up a recurring payment on PayPal in addition to the one off payment. The small contribution is well worth it.

Looking forward to the 24 hours a day immediate support I'm now entitled to 🤣

Quote from Zoki

If we helped, click here

What, so it's all a scam? Ye pretend to be nice, then smack me with a bill? 🤬

Only joking. Delighted to help, just disappointed that I can only afford something small. As I said the other day, one of the great things about OMV is the community and how helpful they are to everyone, regardless of skill level.

When I win the lottery I'll be making a much bigger donation!

I'm the mean time, do OMV have a Patreon page. I donate a little each month to pihole, and would be happy to make a recurring donation to OMV. Just a thought.

Thanks again.

Good news...I have access to my mergerfs back!

Thanks for all the help.

Having issues with Emby and Transmission will try and get those sorted tonight and will let ye know.

Quote from Zoki

Do it this way:

1. reconfigure calibre and nextcloud to not start on boot
2. stop calibre and nextcloud so they do not write new files in the directory
3. remove all files and directories from /srv/5ff... (you know what you are doing, right?)
4. uncomment the mergerfs in fstab
5. reboot or mount /srv/5ff
6. check that /srv/5ff.. looks as expected
7. restart calibre and nextcloud
8. reconfigure calibre and nextcloud to start on boot again
9. (veryfy last step by rebooting)

Thanks for that. For step 3, the folder is srv/5ff.../Ella. Do I delete everything in the Ella folder, or do I delete it he Ella folder too? Am I ok to delete via cloud commander, or should I use CLI?

Quote from Zoki

It is not a volume, but a bind-mount of a directory, not that bad. But one needs to know how to merge that back into the original files or to waive them.

Fixing the clbre library should be easy, but what to do about Nextcloud/appdata_ocvdapl3c5pk ? Dut this directory was added yesterday at 20:15, maybe not worth the hassle of resoring.

I'm not concerned about Calibre. I have that on my laptop too.

So should I delete those folders, disable portainer and and calibre, uncomment the fstab, then reboot?