Guide for Joplin-Server on Raspberry Pi

dpoulton · 2024-04-24T21:31:46.677Z

doobes:

I'm told that the version is obsolete.

I believe it says that "version" is obsolete.

The docker-compose file no longer requires the line version: '3'. You can ignore it or just delete the line.

GitHub - Version top-level element (obsolete)

doobes · 2024-04-25T12:44:30.378Z

Awesome.

Okay, that hurdle cleared, onto the next:

my docker-compose.yaml looks like this:

services:
db:
restart: unless-stopped
image: postgres:latest
ports:
- "5432:5432"
volumes:
- /data/joplin-data:/var/lib/postgresql/data
environment:
- POSTGRES_PASSWORD=xxxx
- POSTGRES_USER=joplin
- POSTGRES_DB=joplin
app:
environment:
- APP_BASE_URL=https://xxxxxxx/joplin
- APP_PORT=22300
- POSTGRES_PASSWORD=xxxxx
- POSTGRES_DATABASE=joplin
- POSTGRES_USER=joplin
- POSTGRES_PORT=5432
- POSTGRES_HOST=db
- DB_CLIENT=pg
restart: unless-stopped
image: etechonomy/joplin-server:latest
ports:
- "22300:22300"
depends_on:
- db

This is what I get when I run sudo docker compose up -d

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo docker compose up -d
WARN[0000] The "LhqkfzeR" variable is not set. Defaulting to a blank string.
WARN[0000] The "tv" variable is not set. Defaulting to a blank string.
WARN[0000] The "LhqkfzeR" variable is not set. Defaulting to a blank string.
WARN[0000] The "tv" variable is not set. Defaulting to a blank string.
[+] Running 0/2
⠧ db Pulling 0.6s
⠧ app Pulling 0.6s
no matching manifest for linux/arm/v8 in the manifest list entries

And this takes mere moments, not a long while.

Thanks

doobes · 2024-04-25T12:45:47.990Z

sorry for the formatting.

dpoulton · 2024-04-25T17:02:51.863Z

doobes:

WARN[0000] The "LhqkfzeR" variable is not set. Defaulting to a blank string.
WARN[0000] The "tv" variable is not set. Defaulting to a blank string.
WARN[0000] The "LhqkfzeR" variable is not set. Defaulting to a blank string.
WARN[0000] The "tv" variable is not set. Defaulting to a blank string.

This suggests to me that docker is looking for externally stored environment variables but you have not obviously specified any in your compose file. It's a long shot but is your postgres password something like ${LhqkfzeR}${tv} ???

dpoulton · 2024-04-25T18:49:10.801Z

doobes:

no matching manifest for linux/arm/v8 in the manifest list entries

Also in the error it says arm. Are you trying to install Joplin Server on 32-bit RasPiOS? Joplin Server is a 64-bit application and needs a 64-bit OS to download / run the linux/arm64/v8 image.

doobes · 2024-04-25T19:23:30.692Z

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Says here it's Arm 64 bit

en.wikipedia.org

AArch64

AArch64 or ARM64 is the 64-bit extension of the ARM architecture family. It was first introduced with the Armv8-A architecture, and had many extension updates. Announced in October 2011, ARMv8-A represents a fundamental change to the ARM architecture. It adds an optional 64-bit architecture, named "AArch64", and the associated new "A64" instruction set. AArch64 provides user-space compatibility with the existing 32-bit architecture ("AArch32" / ARMv7-A), and instruction set ("A32"). The 16-32...

dpoulton · 2024-04-25T19:31:57.427Z

That says the processor is 64-bit.

Try typing the command getconf LONG_BIT and see if the result is 32 or 64.

doobes · 2024-04-25T19:33:42.486Z

Aha.

Crapolla

Thanks

dpoulton · 2024-04-25T19:38:14.302Z

And the warnings?

Guide for Joplin-Server on Raspberry Pi Development

This suggests to me that docker is looking for externally stored environment variables but you have not obviously specified any in your compose file. It's a long shot but is your postgres password something like ${LhqkfzeR}${tv} ???

doobes · 2024-04-25T20:19:58.056Z

dpoulton:

Well, might have been something similar

Changed completely just for fun.

It's churning away as we speak.

'nuther silly assed question while that's doing it's thing

Item 6 mentions a Webserver, but says little else about it. Why, how, etc, etc, I mean it's easy enough to install one, but configuration is a whole new thing.

Thanks

dpoulton · 2024-04-25T20:47:01.997Z

doobes:

Item 6 mentions a Webserver, but says little else about it. Why, how, etc, etc, I mean it's easy enough to install one, but configuration is a whole new thing

Actually it says quite a bit and includes config information. The sections expand depending on the reverse proxy you have / want to use.

The reverse proxy accepts and handles the https (port 443) requests and deals with the encryption certificates on behalf of the Joplin server. It then forwards the traffic to the Joplin Server docker container on port 22300.

doobes · 2024-04-25T21:02:23.991Z

doh

you are correct

thanks

doobes · 2024-04-28T20:24:14.637Z

Well, making progress, I think.

I went through the Apache install.

At the end when I typed "sudo apachectl -k graceful" , it said:

AH00558: apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.1.1. Set the 'ServerName' directive globally to suppress this message

Anyway, if I enter in https://mywebsitename/joplin, I get the initial login page.

I changed my creds my correct e-mail and a new password and it says it will e-mail a confirmation.

But it doesn't . No e-mail.

Going back to https://mywebsitename/joplin/home, I'm told "A confirmation email has been sent to your new address. Please follow the link in that email to confirm. Your email will only be updated after that."

Without the e-mail I'm kinda dead in the water.

Thoughts?

Thanks

MrKanister · 2024-04-28T20:45:51.487Z

Hi,

doobes:

Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name

You can safely ignore this warning or look it up on the web.

doobes:

No e-mail.

To get the E-Mail actually sent, you would have to configure the E-Mail settings in the docker-compose file. Please look up the instructions on how to do this in the forum via the search. If you don't want to setup this, you can also login as the admin, go to "Admin", "Emails", look up the desired E-Mail and click the link. This is how I do it, as I am the only user on the instance and I didn't want to configure the E-Mail config.

doobes · 2024-04-28T22:45:17.917Z

Sweet

That all worked.

Before I link to the server, how do I change the location of the storage files?

The SD card I'm running off of is only 65gb. I want the server to save the files to my NAS box. I can map that easily enough.

Thanks

MrKanister · 2024-04-29T09:03:08.140Z

If you just want to change the database location, you can map the path inside the container to your desired path outside of the container with

services:
    db:
        volumes:
            - /desired/path:/var/lib/postgresql/data

To do this change, shutdown the containers, do the change, start the server back up and do a re-upload from one joplin application. Always make sure you have a backup of your data before changing any server configuration.

If you'd like to have contents and attachments separated, follow this link: joplin/packages/server/README.md at dev · laurent22/joplin · GitHub .

You will end up with something looking like this:

services:
    db:
        volumes:
            - /desired/path/for/joplin-data:/var/lib/postgresql/data
    app:
        volumes:
          - /desired/path/for/joplin-content:/home/content
          - STORAGE_DRIVER=Type=Filesystem; Path=/home/content

Edits because of misclicks

doobes · 2024-04-29T23:23:44.780Z

Well,

Going backwards.

Don't really understand the syntax you provided with the colon.

I changed the docker-compose.yml to a couple of

-/data/joplin-data:/mnt/Joplin

And pulled the file and restarted.

It wails away for a bit and I get an endless;

image1198×718 105 KB

Killing the process and changing docker-compose.yml back to original now get the same thing.

The odd thing is the daemon is working as I can log in.

Trying to synchronize, I'm told the URL is incorrect.

Checking the synchronization target I get:

Error. Please check that URL, username, password, etc. are correct and that the sync target is accessible. The reported error was:
Not a valid URL: mywebsite.com/api/sessions

Not encouraging.

The folder I want to save everything is /mnt/Joplin

What would the proper syntax be for that?

Thanks

dpoulton · 2024-04-30T11:11:02.707Z

doobes:

I changed the docker-compose.yml to a couple of

-/data/joplin-data:/mnt/Joplin

MrKanister:

If you just want to change the database location, you can map the path inside the container to your desired path outside of the container with
services:
    db:
        volumes:
            - /desired/path:/var/lib/postgresql/data

As shown by @MrKanister, when mapping volumes the path to the left of the colon is on your system. Everything to the right of the colon is inside the container. Unless you are a really advanced Docker user you will never need to change anything to the right of the colon.

So if you want to map a folder on your system called /mnt/joplin to where the Joplin Server data is located within the container (/var/lib/postgresql/data) then it would be:

/mnt/joplin:/var/lib/postgresql/data

doobes · 2024-05-02T15:45:12.521Z

Well,

I've beat my head on this for a week now.

I've run through the setup process so many times that I've bumped into the LetsEncrypt weekly cert limit.

I cannot get the server to use a mounted drive for storage. I've tried a symlink to the folder, nothing works.

I always get error: could not change permissions of directory "/var/lib/postgresql\data": Operation not supported

So, for now I'm syncing locally.

Unfortunately it's not going to take long to fill up this sd card at 64gb.

Any ideas on how to move forward with a mounted external storage drive?

It's a Synology NAS that I've got mounted via CIFS.

That part works just fine.

Is this, perhaps a permission issue?

My compose-docker file looks like this:

services:
db:
restart: unless-stopped
image: postgres:latest
ports:
- "5432:5432"
volumes:
- /home/joplin/data/:/var/lib/postgresql/data
environment:
- POSTGRES_PASSWORD=mypassword
- POSTGRES_USER=joplin
- POSTGRES_DB=joplin
app:
environment:
- APP_BASE_URL=https://MY-SERVER.COM/joplin
- APP_PORT=22300
- POSTGRES_PASSWORD=mypassword
- POSTGRES_DATABASE=joplin
- POSTGRES_USER=joplin
- POSTGRES_PORT=5432
- POSTGRES_HOST=db
- DB_CLIENT=pg
restart: unless-stopped
image: etechonomy/joplin-server:latest
ports:
- "22300:22300"
depends_on:
- db

where /home/joplin/data is a symbilic link to /mnt/Joplin

It weird as the /data folder wasn't there before the process started, but was created in the process.

Any thoughts?

Addendum as this daemon won't let me add another message (3 in a row ?)

I've filed a support issue over on:

https://github.com/etechonomy/joplin-server

cheers,

MrKanister · 2024-05-05T12:01:54.550Z

Unfortunately I'm very confused.

Few things:

Please remove this issue (Unable to save files to mounted drive · Issue #13 · etechonomy/joplin-server · GitHub) as etechonomy just provides automated builds based on joplin server. If you need to file a bug, do it on here: GitHub - laurent22/joplin: Joplin - the secure note taking and to-do app with synchronisation capabilities for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS. (currently you don't need to file an issue as there is something wrong with your setup, not with the image)
If your issue persists after my solution attempts below, please create your own topic in the forum so that this thread doesn't get flooded.
Please post code inside of a code block (begin: ```, end: ```)

doobes:

I always get error: could not change permissions of directory "/var/lib/postgresql\data": Operation not supported

Is this the exact (!) error message? I ask because of the one backwards slash at /var/lib/postgresql\data. Here as well: Please post stuff like this inside of code blocks or inline code for better readability.

doobes:

It weird as the /data folder wasn't there before the process started, but was created in the process.

Which /data folder do you reference here? It can't be /home/joplin/data as you mention you've created it as a symbolic link instead.

doobes:

Addendum as this daemon won't let me add another message (3 in a row ?)

I don't get, what you mean by this.

Now to some solution attempts:

doobes:

/home/joplin/data/:/var/lib/postgresql/data

Maybe rewrite this line to - /home/joplin/data:/var/lib/postgresql/data (removed trailing /).

Try the whole thing without symbolic links first. Just try to map the folder inside of the container to some folder outside of the container and see if that works.
Why do you use a sym link in the first place? Rewrite the line above to - /mnt/Joplin:/var/lib/postgresql/data and you should be fine without a link.
I don't think it is a permission problem, as I never had problems with those. But for you to check, my data folder has permission 700, uid/gid 999. However this shouldn't be an issue as docker creates that folder for you.