refactored

Dockerfile

@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+# docker build -t my/zeronet .
+# docker run -d -v ~/.zeronetdata:/data -p 43110:43110 my/zeronet
+
 FROM alpine:3.3
 MAINTAINER Andrey Arapov <andrey.arapov@nixaid.com>
 
@@ -8,16 +11,23 @@ RUN echo '@testing http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing' >> /etc/ap
 ENV USER zeronet
 ENV UID 7000
 ENV HOME /home/$USER
+ENV PROJECT ZeroNet-master
+ENV DATA /data
 RUN adduser -D -u $UID -h $HOME -s /bin/true $USER
 
 USER $USER
+VOLUME [ "$DATA" ]
 WORKDIR $HOME
 RUN wget -q https://github.com/HelloZeroNet/ZeroNet/archive/master.tar.gz \
     && tar xpzf master.tar.gz \
     && rm -f master.tar.gz \
-    && cd ZeroNet-master \
+    && cd $PROJECT \
     && mkdir log \
-    && touch log/error.log
+    && touch log/error.log \
+    && ln -sv $DATA ./data
 
-WORKDIR $HOME/ZeroNet-master
-CMD python zeronet.py --ui_ip 0.0.0.0
+# the launch script needs to chown the /data in case when $UID does not match
+# the UID of the host
+USER root
+COPY launch ./$PROJECT/
+CMD ./$PROJECT/launch

README.md

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ docker build -t my/zeronet .
 Run
 ===
 ```
-docker run -d -p 43110:43110 my/zeronet
+docker run -d -v ~/.zeronetdata:/data -p 43110:43110 my/zeronet
 ```
 
 Access
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ If you already have your Web browser running in a container (e.g. Firefox in
 the `firefox_net` network), then you can run Zeronet container in the
 following way
 ```
-docker run -d --name zeronet --net firefox_net my/zeronet
+docker run -d --name zeronet -v ~/.zeronetdata:/data --net firefox_net my/zeronet
 ```
 
 And access it via `http://zeronet:43110`

launch

@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+# This script has to be placed at $HOME/$USER/$PROJECT directory
+
+# Switch to the directory of this script
+cd "$(dirname "$(realpath "$0")")"
+
+chown -Rh $USER:$USER $DATA
+su -s /bin/sh $USER -c "python zeronet.py --ui_ip 0.0.0.0"