How to fix a mkdir error on a dockerized ap on ec2?-CodePudding

I have a django app based on django-cookiecutter running on an aws-ec2. The application itself built and is running ok. This application uses the django-cities-light library. When I run docker-compose -f production.yml run --rm django python manage.py cities_light which is the command to populate the database with countries/cities I get this error:

INFO 2021-11-30 15:17:36,780 cities_light 1 140562076800832 Creating /usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/cities_light/data
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/app/manage.py", line 31, in <module>
    execute_from_command_line(sys.argv)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 401, in execute_from_command_line
    utility.execute()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 395, in execute
    self.fetch_command(subcommand).run_from_argv(self.argv)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 330, in run_from_argv
    self.execute(*args, **cmd_options)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 371, in execute
    output = self.handle(*args, **options)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/cities_light/management/commands/cities_light.py", line 145, in handle
    os.mkdir(DATA_DIR)
PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/cities_light/data'
ERROR: 1

As '/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/cities_light/data' is inside the docker I am very confused regarding what permissions I should set and to whom.

If anyone could shed some light it will be much appreciated.

Thank you!

CodePudding user response：

Make sure the user inside the container has sufficient permission to '/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/cities_light/data'.

If you have a non-root user inside the container, make sure this user owns/has access to the folder. Also take a look into this

CodePudding user response：

Thanks Vinoth for the suggestions. They were helpful.

I did a bit of reading and changing the ownership of the folder to django (user:group) by adding RUN chown -R django:django /usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/* to docker file fixed the problem.