Dockerfile

@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ RUN apk del .build-deps
 FROM python:3.8-alpine3.18 as production
 
 # Create a user to run our application
-RUN adduser -D myuser
+RUN adduser -D myuser -u 1000
 
 # Copy the dependencies and installed packages from the builder image
 WORKDIR /app

README.md

@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 export PUSH_SERVER_VERSION=0.1
 
 # This command is also in build.sh
+# Note that there is a user with the uid 1000 inside the Dockerfile: make sure that such a user exists on the server and has write access to the database.
 docker build --tag py-push-server:amd-$PUSH_SERVER_VERSION --platform linux/amd64 .
 
 docker save -o ~/dl/py-push-server-amd-$PUSH_SERVER_VERSION.tar py-push-server:amd-$PUSH_SERVER_VERSION
@@ -22,7 +23,7 @@ bzip2 -d py-push-server-amd-$PUSH_SERVER_VERSION.tar.bz2
 
 sudo docker load -i py-push-server-amd-$PUSH_SERVER_VERSION.tar
 
-sudo docker run -d -p 8900:3000 -v ~/py-push-server-db:/srv/py-push-server/data --name py-push-server-$PUSH_SERVER_VERSION py-push-server:amd-$PUSH_SERVER_VERSION
+sudo docker run -d -p 8900:3000 -v ~/py-push-server-db:/app/instance/data --name py-push-server-$PUSH_SERVER_VERSION py-push-server:amd-$PUSH_SERVER_VERSION
 ```
 
 

app.py

@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ class WebPushService():
 
         # Setting the application instance        
         self.app = app
+        self.app.add_url_rule('/web-push/regenerate_vapid', view_func=self.regenerate_vapid, methods=['POST'])
 
         # Setting the database URI for the application
         db_uri = os.getenv('SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI', 'sqlite:////app/instance/data/webpush.db')
@@ -194,9 +195,7 @@ class WebPushService():
             time.sleep(24 * 60 * 60)
 
 
-    @staticmethod
-    @app.route('/web-push/regenerate_vapid', methods=['POST'])
-    def regenerate_vapid() -> Tuple[str, int]:
+    def regenerate_vapid(self) -> Tuple[str, int]:
         """
         Endpoint to regenerate VAPID keys.