Problem starting dev environment as docker container, egroupware-nginx hangs in a restart loop

dawuid 2026-08-10 23:49:35 UTC #1

Hello,
following these instructions, I wanted to completely rebuild the development environment:

I was able to fix the first problem: collabora-key complained that the coolwsd.xml file was missing.

Preformatted text[ coolwsd ] FTL Failed to initialize COOLWSD: File not found: /etc/coolwsd/coolwsd.xml| wsd/COOLWSD.hpp:273

I copied the file from https://github.com/EGroupware/build.opensuse.org/blob/master/server%3AeGroupWare/egroupware-collabora-key/egroupware-collabora-key/coolwsd.xml to the appropriate directory, and collabora-key then started successfully.

Next error: egroupware-nginx is stuck in a restart loop:

/docker-entrypoint.sh: /docker-entrypoint.d/ is not empty; will attempt to perform configuration
/docker-entrypoint.sh: Looking for shell scripts in /docker-entrypoint.d/
/docker-entrypoint.sh: Launching /docker-entrypoint.d/10-listen-on-ipv6-by-default.sh
10-listen-on-ipv6-by-default.sh: info: cannot modify /etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf (read-only file system?)
/docker-entrypoint.sh: Sourcing /docker-entrypoint.d/15-local-resolvers.envsh
/docker-entrypoint.sh: Launching /docker-entrypoint.d/20-envsubst-on-templates.sh
/docker-entrypoint.sh: Launching /docker-entrypoint.d/30-tune-worker-processes.sh
/docker-entrypoint.sh: Configuration complete; ready for startup
2026/08/10 22:25:33 [emerg] 1#1: unknown "egroupware" variable
nginx: [emerg] unknown "egroupware" variable

This line should be the problem:

github.com

EGroupware/egroupware/blob/1d8dc1d2d25a14fe1eb038989ee79775bdeb0673/doc/docker/development/nginx.conf#L123


		return 301 $scheme://$http_host/egroupware/groupdav.php$1;
	}
	# OpenID Connect autodiscovery
	location = /.well-known/openid-configuration {
		fastcgi_pass fpm;
		include fastcgi_params;
		fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME /var/www/egroupware/openid/well-known-configuration.php;
	}
	# generated OpenAPI openapi.json
	location = /egroupware/doc/openapi/openapi.json {
		fastcgi_pass $egroupware:9000;
		include fastcgi_params;
		fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME /var/www/egroupware/doc/openapi/openapi-json.php;
	}
	# Nginx does NOT use index for OPTIONS requests breakng WebDAV
	# for Windows, which sends OPTIONS / and stalls on Nginx 405 response!
	# This also redirects all requests to root to EGroupware.
	location = / {
		return 301 $scheme://$http_host/egroupware/index.php;
	}
	# redirect /egroupware to /egroupware/

Did I missed something or should be or does this line only need to be commented out?

Compare to:

github.com

EGroupware/egroupware/blob/1d8dc1d2d25a14fe1eb038989ee79775bdeb0673/doc/docker/nginx.conf#L141


		return 301 $redirectscheme://$host/egroupware/groupdav.php$1;
	}
	# OpenID Connect autodiscovery
	location = /.well-known/openid-configuration {
		fastcgi_pass fpm;
		include fastcgi_params;
		fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME /usr/share/egroupware/openid/well-known-configuration.php;
	}
	# generated OpenAPI openapi.json
	location = /egroupware/doc/openapi/openapi.json {
#	fastcgi_pass $egroupware:9000;
		include fastcgi_params;
		fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME /usr/share/egroupware/doc/openapi/openapi-json.php;
	}
	# Nginx does NOT use index for OPTIONS requests breakng WebDAV
	# for Windows, which sends OPTIONS / and stalls on Nginx 405 response!
	# This also redirects all requests to root to EGroupware.
	location = / {
		return 301 $redirectscheme://$host/egroupware/index.php;
	}
	# redirect /egroupware to /egroupware/

Regards, Axel

RalfBecker 2026-08-11 04:58:19 UTC #2

Both nginx.conf are fixed now: https://github.com/EGroupware/egroupware/commit/d36b2094813127cffb0ded6a0416aed3b7ac5fc0

Problem is it was copy-n-paste from the Linux package, which defines egroupware and resolves it via DNS.

I need to check, why the colabora-init service does not get the coolwsd.xml file.

Ralf