Running Into Issue After Issue

[dinosaw]

Hello,

After doing all the manual configuration for the files like traefik.toml and pihole.env etc, I attempt to run ./bootstrap.sh and get errors.

At first is stated:

# ./bootstrap.sh
  [INFO]  creating files for docker-compose...
creating /opt/skyhole/docker/vol/traefik/.htpasswd...
touch: cannot touch '/opt/skyhole/docker/vol/traefik/.htpasswd': No such file or directory

So I created that directory and ran it again but got:

# mkdir -p /opt/skyhole/docker/vol/traefik/

# ./bootstrap.sh
  [INFO]  creating files for docker-compose...
creating /opt/skyhole/docker/vol/traefik/.htpasswd...
./bootstrap.sh: line 62: htpasswd: command not found

Then I looked to see what package the htpasswd command is part of which was apache2-utils. I installed that and then ran bootstrap.sh again:

# ./bootstrap.sh
  [INFO]  creating files for docker-compose...
existing /opt/skyhole/docker/vol/traefik/.htpasswd...
existing /opt/skyhole/docker/vol/traefik/acme.json...
  [INFO]  getting runtime WAN IP configuration...
  [INFO]  beginning container creation...
./bootstrap.sh: line 106: docker-compose: command not found

Then I installed docker-compose and ran it again and got:

# ./bootstrap.sh
  [INFO]  creating files for docker-compose...
existing /opt/skyhole/docker/vol/traefik/.htpasswd...
creating /opt/skyhole/docker/vol/traefik/acme.json...
  [INFO]  getting runtime WAN IP configuration...
  [INFO]  beginning container creation...
ERROR:
        Can't find a suitable configuration file in this directory or any
        parent. Are you in the right directory?

        Supported filenames: docker-compose.yml, docker-compose.yaml

# pwd
/root/skyhole

# ls -l
total 24
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  4056 Dec  9 21:22 bootstrap.sh
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root  4096 Dec  9 21:30 docker
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15471 Dec  9 21:22 readme.md

# ls -l docker/
total 24
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9254 Dec  9 21:30 docker-compose.yaml
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec  9 21:26 env
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Dec  9 21:22 helpers
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Dec  9 21:22 vol

So honestly it's just one error after another. Is this still a working application? Is there something I'm missing? Is there a list of pre-requisites needing to be installed before running bootstrap.sh other than the configuration files?

# cat /etc/*-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=20.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=focal
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS"
NAME="Ubuntu"
VERSION="20.04.1 LTS (Focal Fossa)"
ID=ubuntu
ID_LIKE=debian
PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS"
VERSION_ID="20.04"
HOME_URL="https://www.ubuntu.com/"
SUPPORT_URL="https://help.ubuntu.com/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/"
PRIVACY_POLICY_URL="https://www.ubuntu.com/legal/terms-and-policies/privacy-policy"
VERSION_CODENAME=focal
UBUNTU_CODENAME=focal

[kquinsland]

This hasn't been maintained, but likely does not need much work. Traefik 2.0 is probably the biggest breaking change, but you can get around that by using the old deprecated 1.x containers.

The bootstrap script is very opinionated and fragile; it was more of a 'guide' rather than a solution. It should work for you, but you must not deviate from any of the choices it assumes you've made. It's open source and you are therefore encouraged to make changes as needed (like, if you don't prefer putting in /opt...). As you've noticed, I just assume you've got some packages installed. I didn't do the dev work on this in a vacuum... htpasswd has been installed on most of my systems for years :/.

Your specific error is probably because /root/skyhole != /opt/skyhole

---

I've re-rolled the implementation a few times but not released as there's still a few issues w/ the Upstream pihole docker container that make things complicated:

• Set PUID and PGID as Variables pi-hole/docker-pi-hole#328
• Make pi-hole run as non-root user pi-hole/docker-pi-hole#685

basically, the current pihole docker implementation is an anti-pattern. It works and is easy, so it's remained popular. Popular things are seldom changed. Each re-write I do has not used docker, but the architecture is the same; just replace docker-compose for salt which puts everything in place. i install piHole, certbot and traefik and coredns all on bare metal and use systemd to keep it all running. Certbot fetches the TLS key pair and configures traefik and coreDNS rather than pulling the keys from treafik.

Eventually i'd like to get a single helm chart for k8 deployments but that requires a ton of work to de-compose the Franken-container that is the current pihole docker image.

[dinosaw]

Hello,

Thanks for the reply. I have moved it over to /opt which got me a little further, but still seeing this:

# ./bootstrap.sh
  [INFO]  creating files for docker-compose...
existing /opt/skyhole/docker/vol/traefik/.htpasswd...
existing /opt/skyhole/docker/vol/traefik/acme.json...
  [INFO]  getting runtime WAN IP configuration...
  [INFO]  beginning container creation...
ERROR: In file /opt/skyhole/docker/env/pi.public_ip.env: environment variable name '<html lang' may not contain whitespace.

This is that file's output:

# cat /opt/skyhole/docker/env/pi.public_ip.env
ServerIP=<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang=en>
  <meta charset=utf-8>
  <meta name=viewport content="initial-scale=1, minimum-scale=1, width=device-width">
  <title>Error 403 (Forbidden)!!1</title>
  <style>
- - - - - - - - - - [SNIP] - - - - - - - - - -
  </style>
  <a href=//www.google.com/><span id=logo aria-label=Google></span></a>
  <p><b>403.</b> <ins>That’s an error.</ins>
  <p>Access is forbidden.  <ins>That’s all we know.</ins>

Since it complains about whitespace, I simply took out the lang=en and ran it again, but it looks like it places it right back into the file with the whitespace. Any idea how to get past this one?

[kquinsland]

the content of pi.public_ip.env should be just an IP address and nothing else.