Installing Actual-Budget

Apps and Virtualization
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I am trying to install the community edition of Actual-budget and running into a couple issues.

Mainly when I load up the webUI I am told there isn’t a server running. Upon some research actual-budget should include the server from the docker pull on github.

What do I need to do when installing to make it work? Does it have to run as root?

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I have installed It via yaml, with pratically everything default

services:
  actual_server:
    image: docker.io/actualbudget/actual-server:latest
    ports:
      # This line makes Actual available at port 5006 of the device you run the server on,
      # i.e. http://localhost:5006. You can change the first number to change the port, if you want.
      - '5006:5006'
    environment:
      # Uncomment any of the lines below to set configuration options.
      # - ACTUAL_HTTPS_KEY=/data/selfhost.key
      # - ACTUAL_HTTPS_CERT=/data/selfhost.crt
       - ACTUAL_PORT=5006
       - ACTUAL_UPLOAD_FILE_SYNC_SIZE_LIMIT_MB=20
       - ACTUAL_UPLOAD_SYNC_ENCRYPTED_FILE_SYNC_SIZE_LIMIT_MB=50
       - ACTUAL_UPLOAD_FILE_SIZE_LIMIT_MB=20
      # See all options and more details at https://actualbudget.github.io/docs/Installing/Configuration
      # !! If you are not using any of these options, remove the 'environment:' tag entirely.
    volumes:
      # Change './actual-data' below to the path to the folder you want Actual to store its data in on your server.
      # '/data' is the path Actual will look for its files in by default, so leave that as-is.
      - /mnt/**my-dataset**:/data
    restart: unless-stopped

On first deploy, in the web UI appear a message that an https connection were needed, and after put the service beyond NPM It works without issue.
The target dataset has been created with apps layout and nothing else

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Hi, could you elaborate on that. Upon defautl deployment i recive the information that actual budget requires acces to SharedArrayBuffer. I am not sure what needs to be done and how to achive this. So it seems that “Actual Budget” is not running out of the box which is a pitty

edit: just realised there is a fallback option hidden in the warning message

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