Documentation: Alternate Flysystem drivers leave watchdog error, do not work

[mjordan]

At iCamp_EU we've been trying to get the Dropbox, ZIp, and SFTP Flysystem drivers to work. None are, and they all appear to leave the same error in the watchdog:

Symfony\Component\HttpKernel\Exception\HttpException: The destination directory does not exist, could not be created, or is not writable in Drupal\islandora\MediaSource\MediaSourceService->putToNode() (line 297 of /var/www/html/drupal/web/modules/contrib/islandora/src/MediaSource/MediaSourceService.php).

Here are two of the configurations we're trying. They are from settings.php:

  'zipexample' => [
    'driver' => 'zip',
    'config' => [
      'location' => '/tmp/ziptest.zip',
    ],
  ],

'sftpexample' => [
    'driver' => 'sftp',
    'config' => [
      'host' => 'xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx',
      'username' => 'islandora',
      // 'password' => 'password', // Only one of 'password' or 'privatekey' is needed.
      'privateKey' => '/home/vagrant/.ssh/id_rsa',
      'root' => '/home/islandora',

      // Optional
      'port' => 21,
      'timeout' => 10,
    ],
    'cache' => TRUE, // Cache filesystem metadata.
  ],

Can anyone replicate this error?

[mjordan]

Some initial debugging here by @ibrahimab is showing that resolving the realpath of the filesystem URIs is returning FALSE.

[dannylamb]

@mjordan I can give it a go with zip and see what pops.

[mjordan]

Make sure zip is installed on the vagrant.

[ppound]

We tried it successfully with Amazon S3. I'll see if I can find our ticket to see what I did but If I remember correctly there were some underlying dependencies that needed to be installed. Not sure about the sftp or others but for S3 needed to do composer require league/flysystem-aws-s3-v3

[dannylamb]

@mjordan I can confirm zip is failing. This is what I'm getting in the logs:

The upload directory zip://2019-06 for the file field field_media_image could not be created or is not accessible. A newly uploaded file could not be saved in this directory as a consequence, and the upload was canceled.

[ibrahimab]

@dannylamb can you confirm that calling \Drupal::service('file_system')->realpath('zip://') is also returning false? I got the feeling the resolving of these uri's are the reason it is failing.

[dannylamb]

@ibrahimab yep

vagrant@claw:/var/www/html/drupal/web$ drush php:cli
Psy Shell v0.9.9 (PHP 7.2.19-1+ubuntu16.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 — cli) by Justin Hileman
>>> \Drupal::service('file_system')->realpath('zip://');
=> false

[ibrahimab]

I have installed a fresh Drupal 8 project and installed flysystem. The same problem occurs, so it seems this has nothing to do with islandora, but the project itself. I also took a look at the flysystem repository and the last commit was 2 years ago. It would be wise to use another project. The other option would be taking over maintaining flysystem.

[ppound]

The SFTP driver seems to work if you paste the contents of the key instead of a file path for the privateKey config and comment out the port (or change it to 22 unless ssh really is running on port 21 on your SFTP server, I also commented out the timeout and cache for our tests ). I tried this on a remote build not a vagrant virtualbox install (I'm not sure if networking would cause issues when using vagrant vm?).