How to install custom apps on electric eel

Anirudh_Sharma · November 3, 2024, 3:56pm

I am sorry if its a very stupid question, but I dont know shit about any of this stuff… I was trying to install traefik and homebridge, same issue for both of them. I cant make em open the WEBUI, I need some help in setting up custom apps. what options to confiure when installing a custom app?
lets take traefik for example…can you help me set that up?
BTW: I only need traefik to point my ddns to nextcloud internal ip, I was using core before this, it had an option to choose between DHCP or NAT for nextcloud… life was easy… had a different IP for nextcloud, port forwarding on router did everything…
but now theres no option for that… as far as I know.
so if you have a easy way to access Nextcloud remotely without reverse proxy n all… pls tell me.

sorry for asking all the different questions in 1 post.

Captain_Morgan · November 4, 2024, 1:21am

It depends on how you set up networking. You don’t want “host network” I assume?

You may need to set-up an IP alias first.

Anirudh_Sharma · November 4, 2024, 4:58pm

thanks for your reply,
I got 2 questions:

I made the alias, how to make nextcloud point to it, I still cant figure out.
nextcloud isnt even working when I click open webUI, it says untrusted domain, to change the config file… I found the file through container shell, I can cat it but I cant ee or nano or anyhting… ho do I edit it?

DjP-iX · November 4, 2024, 5:17pm

Are you logged in as root or an admin account? If the latter, try sudo nano <path>.

Anirudh_Sharma · November 15, 2024, 4:05pm

i’m logged in as admin, and I get this

DjP-iX · November 15, 2024, 4:09pm

Oh I didn’t notice you said container shell. You may need to make that edit via the TrueNAS shell or ssh.

Spunky17 · November 15, 2024, 4:20pm

@Anirudh_Sharma how did you setup the appdata directory in the TrueNAS webui? Did you point it to a an IXVolume or a Host Path?

I ask cause it will depend on how you proceed. In either case you need to make the change on the TrueNAS system and not from the container shell. You’ll need shutdown the app, login to the TrueNAS box via SSH and then CD to where your config directory is pointing, update the config.php file and then startup the app again.

In my case my NextCloud appdata directory is:

So, I login to my TrueNAS box and go to that directory, then into config and update the config.php file there.