ipconfig.php not persisted

[Mik13]

When recreating the container with docker compose down & up, the setup needs to be done again even if everything is set up.

I think thats because ipconfig.php is not persisted. We can not use a bind mount for that file, because sed is not able to edit the file that way ("sed: cannot rename /var/www/html/sedR2E6ox: Device or resource busy").

Any ideas other than doing the setup, copying the ipconfig.php to the host and then set the bind mount? This is troublesome, because most of the setup is possible through the env, you did a good work there.

Thanks in advance!

[crawc]

I had the same issue. This is what I did to work around this issue.

This happens because ipconfig.php is not persisted. When you run docker compose down && up, the container is recreated, and the setup state is lost.

Quick workaround (don’t bind mount the file directly — it breaks due to sed -i):

# copy config out of running container
mkdir -p /opt/docker/invoiceplane/config
docker cp invoiceplane:/var/www/html/ipconfig.php /opt/docker/invoiceplane/config/ipconfig.php

# create wrapper script
cat >/opt/docker/invoiceplane/config/start.sh <<'EOF'
#!/bin/sh
set -e

if [ -f /config/ipconfig.php ]; then
  cp /config/ipconfig.php /var/www/html/ipconfig.php
  chown www-data:www-data /var/www/html/ipconfig.php 2>/dev/null || true
fi

exec /usr/local/bin/docker-entrypoint.sh apache2-foreground
EOF

chmod +x /opt/docker/invoiceplane/config/start.sh

Then update your service:

volumes:
  - /opt/docker/invoiceplane/config:/config
entrypoint: ["/config/start.sh"]

This restores ipconfig.php on every start and prevents the setup loop.