Strange issue requiring both from-volume and volume

[Nightwalker83]

Hi,

Not sure if it is a bug or not but I found something strange with:

docker run --detach \
    --volumes-from nginx-proxy \
    --name nginx-proxy-acme \
      --volume certs:/etc/nginx/certs \   
      --volumes-from nginx-proxy \
    --volume /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock:ro \
    --volume acme:/etc/acme.sh \
    --env DEFAULT_EMAIL="[email protected]" \
    nginxproxy/acme-companion

where if I put both

    --volumes-from nginx-proxy
      --volume certs:/etc/nginx/certs

but if I put

--volumes-from nginx-proxy

I receive the error:

Info: running acme-companion version v2.5.1-6-gea11f22

Warning: '/etc/nginx/certs' does not appear to be a mounted volume.

Error: can't access to '/etc/nginx/certs' directory !

Check that '/etc/nginx/certs' directory is declared as a writable volume.

on the other-hand if I put:
--volume certs:/etc/nginx/certs

I receive:

Info: running acme-companion version v2.5.1-6-gea11f22

Error: can't get nginx-proxy container ID !

Check that you are doing one of the following :

	- Use the --volumes-from option to mount volumes from the nginx-proxy container.

	- Set the NGINX_PROXY_CONTAINER env var on the letsencrypt-companion container to the name of the nginx-proxy container.

	- Label the nginx-proxy container to use with 'com.github.nginx-proxy.nginx'.

Thanks,

Aaron

[buchdag]

Hi

I don't know why --volumes-from was failing in your case but the instructions when not using (or unable to use) --volumes-from are in the log message you quoted.

More details here : https://github.com/nginx-proxy/acme-companion/blob/main/docs/Getting-containers-IDs.md

[Nightwalker83]

Yeah, tried adding them to the nginx--proxy container to still ran into problems.

[buchdag]

Could you provide the exact commands you used for both containers and the resulting container logs ?