[directus] guide is broken

[SalocinHB]

looks like yet another module wants a newer GLIBC than available on CentOS 7.

npm ERR! prebuild-install warn install /lib64/libm.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.29' not found (required by home/testnico/directus/node_modules/isolated-vm/out/isolated_vm.node)

@j3n57h0m45, since this was originally your guide, maybe you'd like to have a look and try to fix it?

[beardcoder]

the problem is the argon2 version install version 0.30.x and compile it

[beardcoder]

solution is

npm i argon2@^0.30.1 npx node-pre-gyp rebuild -C ./node_modules/argon2 rm -rf ./node_modules/direcus/node_modules/argon2

[beardcoder]

Oh sorry the error is in the isolated-vm :( i search for a solution

[khuppenbauer]

Just a small hint The isolated-vm, which breaks the guide, was introduced in 10.6.0 https://github.com/directus/directus/releases/tag/v10.6.0 So the latest version which works is 10.5.3 But there is also a change in the structure The directus node_modules folder is now @directus/api/node_modules So you have to delete the directus argon2 module from there rm -rf ./node_modules/@directus/api/node_modules/argon2/

[hermanndettmann]

I stumbled upon this and tried the posted suggestions but couldn't get Directus 10.6.3 working on Uberspace so far. Any more hints how to get this working?

[SalocinHB]

@hermanndettmann which errors occur at which point?

[hermanndettmann]

Hey @SalocinHB , thanks for the quick reply! When I run npx directus bootstrap I get this error:

Error: /lib64/libm.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.29' not found (required by MY_UBERSPACE_DIRECTORY/directus/node_modules/isolated-vm/out/isolated_vm.node)
    at Module._extensions..node (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1473:18)
    at Module.load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1207:32)
    at Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1023:12)
    at Module.require (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1235:19)
    at require (node:internal/modules/helpers:176:18)
    at Object.<anonymous> (MY_UBERSPACE_DIRECTORY/directus/node_modules/isolated-vm/isolated-vm.js:1:18)
    at Module._compile (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1376:14)
    at Module._extensions..js (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1435:10)
    at Module.load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1207:32)
    at Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1023:12) {
  code: 'ERR_DLOPEN_FAILED'
}

I use node 20.10.0 and npm 10.2.5.

[tapirbug]

I got directus 10.10.7 running on uberspace!

My process was to build from source on CentOS7 and to copy the libraries from the libvips-devel dependency (needed by sharp) onto uberspace and include it into the library search path with LD_LIBRARY_PATH. Apart from libvips-devel, a recent c++ compiler and node >= 18 are also needed on the build machine.

In the CentOS 7 build setup, I ran: npm_config_build_from_source=true yarn install && cp -r /usr/lib64 . and copied the result to uberspace. The corresponding supervisord ini then looks like this:

[program:backend-12f746d]
command=/home/REDACTED/deployments/backend-12f746d/node_modules/.bin/directus start
environment=KEY="REDACTED",SECRET="REDACTED",ADMIN_EMAIL="REDACTED",ADMIN_PASSWORD="REDACTED",LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/home/REDACTED/deployments/backend-12f746d/lib64:/opt/rh/devtoolset-9/root/usr/lib64:/opt/rh/devtoolset-9/root/usr/lib:/opt/rh/devtoolset-9/root/usr/lib64/dyninst:/opt/rh/devtoolset-9/root/usr/lib/dyninst:/opt/rh/devtoolset-9/root/usr/lib64:/opt/rh/devtoolset-9/root/usr/lib",PORT="53559",DB_CLIENT="sqlite3",WEBSOCKETS_ENABLED="true",DB_FILENAME="/home/REDACTED/deployments/backend-12f746d/database/data.db",PUBLIC_URL="http://0.0.0.0:53559/"

I think it should also work to do the build from source directly on uberspace instead of on a build machine (at least if libvips-devel is provided manually or by uberspace), though when I tried that my process was killed. I'm not sure if I used too much time or memory when I did that, but it's easy-ish to work around that by building locally and then uploading directus pre-installed. Or rather it becomes easy-ish once you have a working CentOS 7 setup for building.

Let me know if I can be of any help with updating the guide, e.g. I could share the Dockerfile I used to get a CentoOS 7 for building, which at least for me was the main challenge with this approach.

As an aside, the approach from the guide to configure the web backend on / works and is definitely easier to maintain, but I thought I could also share a more fine-grained approach here, in case anyone else wants to deploy directus and HTML under / using the same domain name:

uberspace web backend set /activity --http --port $(BACKEND_PORT) && \
	uberspace web backend set /auth --http --port $(BACKEND_PORT) && \
	uberspace web backend set /admin --http --port $(BACKEND_PORT) && \
	uberspace web backend set /assets --http --port $(BACKEND_PORT) && \
	uberspace web backend set /auth --http --port $(BACKEND_PORT) && \
	uberspace web backend set /collections --http --port $(BACKEND_PORT) && \
	uberspace web backend set /dashboards --http --port $(BACKEND_PORT) && \
	uberspace web backend set /extensions --http --port $(BACKEND_PORT) && \
	uberspace web backend set /fields --http --port $(BACKEND_PORT) && \
	uberspace web backend set /files --http --port $(BACKEND_PORT) && \
	uberspace web backend set /folders --http --port $(BACKEND_PORT) && \
	uberspace web backend set /items --http --port $(BACKEND_PORT) && \
	uberspace web backend set /notifications --http --port $(BACKEND_PORT) && \
	uberspace web backend set /permissions --http --port $(BACKEND_PORT) && \
	uberspace web backend set /presets --http --port $(BACKEND_PORT) && \
	uberspace web backend set /relations --http --port $(BACKEND_PORT) && \
	uberspace web backend set /revisions --http --port $(BACKEND_PORT) && \
	uberspace web backend set /roles --http --port $(BACKEND_PORT) && \
	uberspace web backend set /server --http --port $(BACKEND_PORT) && \
	uberspace web backend set /settings --http --port $(BACKEND_PORT) && \
	uberspace web backend set /users --http --port $(BACKEND_PORT) && \
	uberspace web backend set /webhooks --http --port $(BACKEND_PORT) && \
	uberspace web backend set /docs --http --port $(BACKEND_PORT) && \
	uberspace web backend set /shares --http --port $(BACKEND_PORT) && \
	uberspace web backend set /versions --http --port $(BACKEND_PORT) && \
	uberspace web backend set /translations --http --port $(BACKEND_PORT)

[vladmueller]

Hi @tapirbug, it would be nice if you could share the Dockerfile you used to get a CentoOS 7 for building directus ✌

[tapirbug]

Sure thing, I used this Dockerfile:

FROM centos:7
# the node build requires python3 and gcc
RUN yum install -y centos-release-scl-rh && yum install -y python3 make rsync devtoolset-10 devtoolset-10-gcc-c++ git curl
RUN echo 'source /opt/rh/devtoolset-10/enable' >> ~/.bashrc

# install the node version we copied off of uberspace (and python, which it needs to run)
COPY ./opt--nodejs18.tar.gz /opt--nodejs18.tar.gz
COPY ./opt--uberspace--python-venv.tar.gz /opt--uberspace--python-venv.tar.gz
RUN tar -xf /opt--nodejs18.tar.gz --directory / \
 && tar -xf /opt--uberspace--python-venv.tar.gz --directory / \
 && rm /opt--nodejs18.tar.gz /opt--uberspace--python-venv.tar.gz \
 && cd /usr/bin && ln -s /opt/nodejs18/bin/node /opt/nodejs18/bin/npm /opt/nodejs18/bin/npx .

RUN npm install --global yarn && cd /usr/bin && ln -s /root/lib/node_modules/yarn/bin/yarn .

# provide vips-devel which is required to build directus from source
RUN yum install -y https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
RUN yum install -y yum-utils
RUN yum install -y http://rpms.remirepo.net/enterprise/remi-release-7.rpm
RUN yum-config-manager --enable remi
RUN yum install -y vips vips-devel vips-tools

WORKDIR /build

The tar archives used to install node and python are copied from uberspace:

tar czf opt--uberspace--python-venv.tar.gz /opt/uberspace/python-venv-2.7
tar czf opt--nodejs18.tar.gz /opt/nodejs18

The .bashrc thingy to enable the newer C++ compiler required an interactive bash for me, and I mounted the code in /build, so the command I use for building looks like this:

docker run -it -v ./$(BACKEND_DIR):/build uberspace-node-build:latest bash -ic 'npm_config_build_from_source=true yarn install && cp -r /usr/lib64 .'