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I hosted searxng on portainer and receive PermissionError and no python application found error

Log:

PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/etc/searxng/settings.yml'

unable to load app 0 (mountpoint='') (callable not found or import error)

*** no app loaded. going in full dynamic mode ***

***
no python application found, check your startup logs for errors
***

[pid: 19|app: -1|req: -1/1] 127.0.0.1 () {28 vars in 330 bytes} [Sat May 17 05:06:00 2025] HEAD /healthz => generated 21 bytes in 0 msecs (HTTP/1.1 500) 3 headers in 102 bytes (0 switches on core 0)

I tried removing cap_drop (as instructed on https://github.com/searxng/searxng-docker/issues/115) but no luck

version: "3.7"

services:
  # caddy:
  #   container_name: caddy
  #   image: docker.io/library/caddy:2-alpine
  #   network_mode: host
  #   restart: unless-stopped
  #   volumes:
  #     - ./Caddyfile:/etc/caddy/Caddyfile:ro
  #     - caddy-data:/data:rw
  #     - caddy-config:/config:rw
  #   environment:
  #     # - SEARXNG_HOSTNAME=${SEARXNG_HOSTNAME:-http://localhost/}
  #     - SEARXNG_TLS=${LETSENCRYPT_EMAIL:-internal}
  #   cap_drop:
  #     - ALL
  #   cap_add:
  #     - NET_BIND_SERVICE
  #   logging:
  #     driver: "json-file"
  #     options:
  #       max-size: "1m"
  #       max-file: "1"

  redis:
    container_name: redis
    image: docker.io/valkey/valkey:8-alpine
    command: valkey-server --save 30 1 --loglevel warning
    restart: unless-stopped
    networks:
      - searxng
    volumes:
      - valkey-data2:/data
    # cap_drop:
    #   - ALL
    cap_add:
      - SETGID
      - SETUID
      - DAC_OVERRIDE
    logging:
      driver: "json-file"
      options:
        max-size: "1m"
        max-file: "1"

  searxng:
    container_name: searxng
    image: docker.io/searxng/searxng:latest
    restart: unless-stopped
    networks:
      - searxng
    ports:
      # - "127.0.0.1:8080:8080"
      - "20054:8080"
    volumes:
      - ./searxng:/etc/searxng:rw
    environment:
      # - SEARXNG_BASE_URL=https://${SEARXNG_HOSTNAME:-localhost}/
      - SEARXNG_BASE_URL="http://mydomain:20054/"
      - UWSGI_WORKERS=${SEARXNG_UWSGI_WORKERS:-4}
      - UWSGI_THREADS=${SEARXNG_UWSGI_THREADS:-4}
    # cap_drop:
    #   - ALL
    cap_add:
      - CHOWN
      - SETGID
      - SETUID
    logging:
      driver: "json-file"
      options:
        max-size: "1m"
        max-file: "1"

networks:
  searxng:

volumes:
  # caddy-data:
  # caddy-config:
  valkey-data2:

thx a lot!

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[–] HappyTimeHarry@lemm.ee 4 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (9 children)

open("/etc/searxng/uwsgi.ini"): Permission denied [core/io.c line 525]

I think here is your problem. Make sure that file exists and is readable from inside of the docker.

[–] Override4414@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago (7 children)

I tried removing cap_drop (as instructed on https://github.com/searxng/searxng-docker/issues/115) but no luck, the permission error still exists. And also there occurs a new error no python application found

[–] HappyTimeHarry@lemm.ee 1 points 14 hours ago (6 children)

try opening a shell with ' docker exec -it searxng sh" and see if you can cat the file from inside docker, if yes then I'm not sure of a solution ,if no then the problem is with permissions on your filesystem outside of docker where you have " - ./data/searxng:/etc/searxng" You need to go to ./data/searxng and correct the permissions so they can be read inside the docker.

[–] Override4414@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)
~ # ls /etc/searxng
settings.yml  uwsgi.ini
~ # cat settings.yml
cat: can't open 'settings.yml': No such file or directory
~ # cat /etc/searxng/settings.yml
general:
  # Debug mode, only for development. Is overwritten by ${SEARXNG_DEBUG}
  debug: false
  # displayed name
  instance_name: "searxng"
  # For example: https://example.com/privacy

I think I do have the permission?

[–] HappyTimeHarry@lemm.ee 1 points 14 hours ago

If you have permissions then try editibg uwsgi.ini and see if it lets you save.

Im going from memory but i think i had a similar issue and i had to manually create the file, yours shows the file already exists but it might not be writable.

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