Run PhotoPrism CLI commands inside LXC?

[TwoPuncakes]

Hello! Is there a way to run PhotoPrism commands within the LXC? From what I understand, these commands can only be ran inside Docker Compose? Is that the case?

• https://docs.photoprism.app/user-guide/users/cli/
• https://docs.photoprism.app/getting-started/docker-compose/#command-line-interface

Here's what happens when I run the help command:

I'm kind of new to this, so I might be asking a dumb question. Sorry!

[tteck]

PhotoPrism commands

Those are Docker commands

[rlimaeco]

The solution for this is to use a symlink like:

sudo ln -sf /opt/photoprism/bin/photoprism /usr/local/bin/photoprism

and you can use as a command, the problem is that everything I tried to run I got this error:

WARN[2024-01-17T17:42:42+01:00] config: invalid originals path, check configuration and permissions in plus extension [2.339772ms] ERRO[2024-01-17T17:42:42+01:00] invalid originals path, check configuration and permissions

and commands like create a user , or photoprism users ls. but all of them will fail in my case :/

[tteck]

What exactly are you trying to do?

[rlimaeco]

Just create a user using cli while I don't have a plus subscription The command tried is photoprism users add .... Em qua., 17 de jan. de 2024, 17:52, tteckster ***@***.***> escreveu:

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[tteck]

As far as I know, there's no such thing. https://docs.photoprism.app/user-guide/users/

[TwoPuncakes]

Huh, never thought this thread would be revived again 😅

Anyway, those web UI options will only appear if we have paid for the PhotoPrism Plus subscription:

PhotoPrism® Plus includes a web user interface for account and session management, in addition to the command-line interface available in all editions.

For free users, the command-line interface can apparently still create/manage users:

Managing User Accounts¶
As an alternative to the web user interface, you can run the following commands in a terminal to perform tasks such as adding, viewing, editing and deleting user accounts:

From what I understand on that page, it seems the commands can only be ran only from Docker.

[rlimaeco]

Yes that is my problem, all the cli commands fail when using on this lxc container :/ Em qui., 18 de jan. de 2024, 09:34, Puncake ***@***.***> escreveu:

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Huh, never thought this thread would be revived again 😅 Anyway, those web UI options will only appear if we have paid for the PhotoPrism Plus subscription: PhotoPrism® Plus <https://www.photoprism.app/editions#compare> includes a web user interface for account and session management, in addition to the command-line interface <https://docs.photoprism.app/user-guide/users/cli/> available in all editions. For free users, the command-line interface <https://docs.photoprism.app/user-guide/users/cli/> can apparently still create/manage users: Managing User Accounts¶ <https://docs.photoprism.app/user-guide/users/cli/#managing-user-accounts> As an alternative to the web user interface <https://docs.photoprism.app/user-guide/users/>, you can run the following commands in a terminal <https://docs.photoprism.app/getting-started/docker-compose/#command-line-interface> to perform tasks such as adding, viewing, editing and deleting user accounts: From what I understand on that page, it seems the commands can only be ran only from Docker. — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#2138 (reply in thread)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AAJJEXOZUMT7V7JFFKT5JULYPDM7VAVCNFSM6AAAAABADXEKCGVHI2DSMVQWIX3LMV43SRDJONRXK43TNFXW4Q3PNVWWK3TUHM4DCNRWGM2TK> . You are receiving this because you commented.Message ID: ***@***.***>

[TwoPuncakes]

Pretty unfortunate, but I guess we could use tteck's script to create a Docker LXC and build PhotoPrism from there. Doesn't look too bad, but it'll be a bit tedious.

Or simply just pay and support the PhotoPrism devs :)

[gunverth]

If you run

set -o allexport; source /var/lib/photoprism/.env; set +o allexport

in the LXC console, you can run all CLI commands including user managing (https://docs.photoprism.app/user-guide/users/cli/#managing-user-accounts) through

/opt/photoprism/bin/./photoprism

[TwoPuncakes]

Still not working unfortunately:

I also don't see a photoprism folder in /var/lib/ and /etc/

[TwoPuncakes]

I looked into the script and saw where the .env file is located:

[Service]
Type=forking
User=root
WorkingDirectory=/opt/photoprism
EnvironmentFile=/opt/photoprism/config/.env
ExecStart=/opt/photoprism/bin/photoprism up -d
ExecStop=/opt/photoprism/bin/photoprism dow

So then I ran set -o allexport; source /opt/photoprism/config/.env; set +o allexport instead and seemed to have went through:

Then I went to the bin folders to run the commaand, but ran into more issues:

Honestly, not 100% sure what I'm doing at this point lol

[gunverth]

Try
./photoprism <command>
Also; the PhotoPrism package for Debian puts the "data directory" in /var/lib/photoprism/ since /opt/photoprism is used for binaries which will be replaced when upgraded.

[TwoPuncakes]

I see, now it works!

So the commands to run (for me at least) are:

set -o allexport; source /opt/photoprism/config/.env; set +o allexport
cd /opt/photoprism/bin/
./photoprism <command>

Thanks so much for looking into this!

[rlimaeco]

Thanks a lot , this worked pretty well ! Best Regards !