Saqqara

Actually reinstalled everything 2 days ago using a different Nginx and forwarded the ports instead of using the dmz and seems all good at the minute, the dmz thing was just temporary to get it going before moving to local access but as that seems to be when the instability starts I'm leaving everything alone for now. Tbh my network is a mess, I usually buy a decent router and put the ISP issued ones in a drawer and forget about them but my wife is working form home these days and to get support from the ISP I have to use their router and it's a horrid thing. I've tried to replace it and even flirted very briefly with a pfsense box but bottled it when thinking about the wife not being able to get online and having to go into the office 🫣😱

OK, everything became really unstable pretty quick with even local access via the hosts file so deleted filerun and nginx and reinstalled filerun then I realised that to map via the hosts file I had changed the network in the template from bridge to custom:br0 because hosts file wont take port numbers. Reinstalled Nginx and put it in the DMZ and I'm now back to 502 bad gateway on that and the installation screen via ip address that can't be used for installation. I've put my wordpress instance back up and it's absolutly fine but that's set to custom network. So I'm going to park this for a bit, I could just change the filerun network to custom:br0 again and go in through hosts but I'm not sure if that was what caused my stability issues in the first place, the Nginx issue would suggest there are other issues here but I can't see them. If anyone has any ideas with how I can get stable access even just locally I am all ears.

I can via editing the hosts file, thanks for the heads up on that btw, beyond that had a quick go with tailscale but couldn't get it to work but I'll hopefully have an hour or two to spare tomorrow to look into it a bit more. Regarding Filerun itself, I'm loving it. I moved from a microsoft setup to Unraid about 5 years ago and should've had a good tidy up then as my file organisation was a bit messy but ended up just moving everything across and it's all only got worse, Filerun will really help me out, it costs but so did Unraid and I've never regretted buying that.

OMG, my permissions knowledge is even worse than my network knowledge and the solution was so obvious and appears to be nothing to do with permissions. All I had to do was set the home folder path to /user-files and it maps to the folder specified in the setup 😬🤦‍♂️ OK, so I'm now stuck at setting up the home folder, I think it could have something to do with the permissions set with the chown command in the install process. When I try to set the path it tells me it doesn't exist or php can't access and when I try to create I get permission denied, screenshot attached.

Couldn't leave this alone and I'm in..... Managed to get wordpress running through Nginx so had a go at Filerun, set up the databse (MySql) and Filerun containers but the Filerun one wouldn't start, checked the logs and only problem was Error: The directory named as part of the path /var/www/html/system/data/temp/supervisord.log does not exist thought this could be permission related and saw there was a permission step later in the guide so bought the licence, downloaded the files, uploaded to the server and unzipped, had an chown: missing operand after ‘99:100’ Try 'chown --help' for more information at the end but the container started. I tried to configure Nginx but it wouldn't have it although I did get it going later after I'd got Filerun working Added the domain name to the hosts file entered it in a browser and got ot the setup, as an aside I did inadvertaintly go to the web ui from unraid and got to the setup page although I obviously couldn't set up from there and like it says in the guide once set up it's not licensed to run on that. I then just ran through the setup which took a couple of goes as my Bitdefender kept blocking things. Only problem at the minute is setting up the storage path but that'll have to wait until later. This looks really cool so far, and I know I can get local only access via a hosts file entry and once I'm settled I'll look at running it through tailscale which should be fun. ImSkully thanks for this, sorry if my posts have been a bit wordy and rambling but hopefully will be useful to someone.

Well I'm waving the white flag here which is a pity as filerun looks exactly like what I need. I just can't get past 502 bad gateway errors on nginx with anything, I've tried my wordpress, nextcloud, uptime kuma etc instances, fiddled with all sorts of settings, half of which totally confuse me and no dice. Tbh I think I'm the problem here and this is above my monkey see monkey do copy and paste skills 🤣. I've had people tell me how straight forward networking is but I just get confused with it all, fiddle a bit and either get it working and then leave well alone or don't and then delete. I'm sure if anyone who really knows their stuff looked and my setup they'd tell me to delete everything and start again. Thanks again, I'll keep an eye on this and maybe revist at some point when I've got a bit more knowledge maybe it's time to find a good reference book and finally wrap my head around it all🤔

Hi, thanks for getting back to me so quickly, I've worked out how to edit the hosts file and tried to access a wordpress instance I have running locally and although I could get to the Nginx congratulations page and the config page I couldn't get a certificate or open it. I have now bit the bullet and bought a domain and put my Nginx instance in my routers DMZ, got a certificate sorted for the wordpress but still no access. Current plan is to come back to it later today and if I can get the wordpress going crack on with the filerun using your guide and once that's stable move Nginx out of the dmz and throw wireguard into the mix and see what happens.

Looks very interesting. I struggle with anything beyond simple networking so excuse me if I'm being a bit dense but I have a few things I'm not sure about. Reading up on it I'm thinking I will need a properly registerd domain name with ports permantely open even if I'm using locally but I don't open any ports and do remote access via Twingate and/or Tailscale so if I install Nginx, add a certificate and install Filerun will it be accesible using my current remote options. Will putting Tailscale into the docker direct work or will I need to go throught a subnet on my Unraid server and if I'm running it with local access can I just make a domain name up. I don't mind opening ports for initial installation if necessary but will want to close them after. I was considering just having a go but I'm not sure their refund policy will cover me if I download the files but can't get it to work. Thanks

Hi All, I am currently running Unraid on a HPN54L with 16G of memory using mostly for Home Assistant, file serving and a Channels TV server. I want to do more and I'm looking at a windows VM and an emulation VM but the N54L lacks the ability to pass through a graphics card as it doesn't have IOMMU so it's time to change. I am really out of touch on server specs and wonder if any of you guys can recommend a server to look at, I am thinking a tower and need space for 4 X 3.5inch HDDs, IOMMU and PCI slots obviously and enough grunt for what I do now, a couple of VM's and maybe a plex server too. I can't see the point shelling out for something new for a home server that's just used for fun tbh and was thinking second hand up to around £350 for the server only and maybe a graphics card recommendation to add to it. I am seeing quite a few fujitsu primergy in various configurations about and would be interested to hear opinoions on those. I am in the UK btw. Cheers Roy