Multiple issues running docker-compose up

[aleksas]

• Missing .env file referenced here causing docker-compose up command to fail.
• app container unable to modifiy .files, .data directory content - permission denied

Exception in thread django-main-thread:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/threading.py", line 917, in _bootstrap_inner
    self.run()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/threading.py", line 865, in run
    self._target(*self._args, **self._kwargs)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/django/utils/autoreload.py", line 64, in wrapper
    fn(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/django/core/management/commands/runserver.py", line 118, in inner_run
    self.check(display_num_errors=True)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 423, in check
    databases=databases,
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/django/core/checks/registry.py", line 76, in run_checks
    new_errors = check(app_configs=app_configs, databases=databases)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/django/core/checks/caches.py", line 63, in check_file_based_cache_is_absolute
    cache = caches[alias]
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/django/utils/connection.py", line 62, in __getitem__
    conn = self.create_connection(alias)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/django/core/cache/__init__.py", line 44, in create_connection
    return backend_cls(location, params)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/django/core/cache/backends/filebased.py", line 23, in __init__
    self._createdir()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/django/core/cache/backends/filebased.py", line 121, in _createdir
    os.makedirs(self._dir, 0o700, exist_ok=True)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/os.py", line 221, in makedirs
    mkdir(name, mode)
PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/app/.files/research_preview'

• even if corresponding host directories are chmod'ed to 777 web page displays error:
  

[herrxyz]

got the same problem, docker-compose build not working
from docker hub I miss the correct parameters to run it

[Sternbach-Software]

In settings.py, I replaced the caches with

'research_preview': {
        'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.dummy.DummyCache'
    },

However, I still had some build issues. Tried replacing the dropbox requirement with dropbox==11.36.0. Got some SSL error.