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==== 2.3 Mounting volumes in Docker failed me ====

I went down the rabbit hole to figure this out when I tried weening myself off nextcloud a few years ago.

When you choose to install with Docker, there’s a script that gets downloaded. I explored the directory where this is installed—<code>onlyoffice</code>—and found the <code>document server</code>, <code>control panel</code>, <code>community server</code>, <code>MySQL setup</code>, and <code>mail server</code>.

In the <code>document server</code>, there’s a <code>data</code> directory. So, I thought, “Surely, I can mount it as a volume using Docker.” I searched for <code>:rw</code> to find where they’re specifying all the Docker volumes. It looks like a typical Docker Compose YAML file. I tried adding an argument for my directory, like <code>home/louis/Documents</code>, and mounted it in almost every possible location.

<blockquote>'''Important Note:''' The problem isn’t that the volume isn’t mounted. The issue is that this feature was never implemented in the software. They never thought a document server would need to access files on it. This is, again, the most open sourcey thing I’ve seen in a long time.
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