Help adding external storage via local api

[user_61ae0]

Hello, I'm running ubuntu 24.04 on a system with 2 hard drives, one OS drive with 500gb and one storage with 18tb. I'm wanting to link my server to the storage drive since that is where most of my space is. When I try to add it in external storage it tells me "Path [path] is not writeable (600)". I'm new to linux and docker but I have attempted to google the problem and try to change folder permissions or add it as a volume in docker with no luck and am out of ideas.

 

[Rodolfo]

This is mentioned here: https://github.com/chevereto/docker/blob/4.1/docs/PERSISTENT.md

Basically you need to chown www-data the mounted path to allow the web server user to write to that path.

Inside the container run:

/bin/bash -c 'chown -R www-data: /var/www/html/mypath/'

You want to mount it in a path visible by the web server, where files will be shown to public.

 

[user_61ae0]

ok, I did see this before but I think I misunderstood. So I need to add the local location as a volume or a bind mount in docker and then chown the location inside the container if I'm understanding correctly?
edit: After trying to create a volume using docker run -v /local/path:/container/path I'm getting the error error response from daemon: pull access denied for [container], repository does not exist or may require 'docker login': denied: requested access to the resource is denied.

 

[user_61ae0]

So I'm trying to research while waiting for responses, though not able to test anything till I get back home. I think I was probably using the command wrong to try and create a volume. But I'm confused about even if I succeed in making the volume how do I attach it to the container? From what I've found you can't add it while the container is running, and stopping the container isn't an issue, but the command for starting it in documentation is a make command, not a docker command. Is there a script somewhere I need to add a line to or something?

 

[user_61ae0]

edit: Figured it out. under php volumes added hostpath:containerpath and deployed, then did the bin/bash above and added in external storage under the website. Maybe not perfect but it looks like it works for my use case. In hindsight this seems much easier then it first seemed so thank you for your help and patience and sorry for the multiple posts.