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Unable to start Wallabag - Fresh install w/ sqlite

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
docker, shell, sqlite
Domain
databases, devops, infrastructure

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Start with /entrypoint.sh at line 30 and the ghcr.io/wallabag/docker:2.6.9 image, then inspect how the mounted /var/www/wallabag volume affects app/config/parameters.yml during startup. Reproduce the fresh SQLite deployment from the supplied docker-compose.yml; done means the container starts without the nonexistent-directory error and reaches its healthcheck.

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Description

Hello,

First, thank you very much for the project! I am attempting to get started with Wallabag using a simple setup with SQLite; however, I am running into an issue during the first startup. I am trying to deploy it with docker, and the error I am getting is "/entrypoint.sh: line 30: can't create app/config/parameters.yml: nonexistent directory".

Here is my docker-compose.yml

version: "3.9"
services:
  wallabag:
    image: ghcr.io/wallabag/docker:2.6.9
    restart: unless-stopped
    environment:
      - SYMFONY__ENV__DATABASE_DRIVER=pdo_sqlite
      - SYMFONY__ENV__DOMAIN_NAME=https://wallabag.home.lab
      - SYMFONY__ENV__SERVER_NAME="Wallabag"
    volumes:
      - /mnt/data/wallabag:/var/www/wallabag
    healthcheck:
      test: ["CMD", "wget" ,"--no-verbose", "--tries=1", "--spider", "http://localhost/api/info"]
      interval: 1m
      timeout: 3s
    labels:
      - "traefik.enable=true"
      - "traefik.http.routers.wallabag.entrypoints=websecure"
      - "traefik.http.routers.wallabag.tls=true"
      - "traefik.http.routers.wallabag.tls.certresolver=le"
      - "traefik.http.routers.wallabag.rule=Host(`wallabag.home.lab`)"
      - "traefik.http.routers.wallabag.service=wallabagwebui"
      - "traefik.http.services.wallabagwebui.loadbalancer.server.port=80"
      - "traefik.http.services.wallabagwebui.loadbalancer.server.scheme=http"

Here is the logs:

wallabag-1  | Starting wallabag ...
wallabag-1  | /entrypoint.sh: line 30: can't create app/config/parameters.yml: nonexistent directory

I have also added redis, thinking there maybe missing vars however that did not change the response. To make it easy to read, I only included wallabag deployment details from my docker-compose file.

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