Re: pgadmin4 Install On Windows Server 2019, Windows Container, Either ltsc2019 or 1809

Hi Alexander,

If you're using docker then follow the steps here -
https://www.pgadmin.org/docs/pgadmin4/6.7/container_deployment.html
You will have to have email and password when docker image is run.

On Tue, Mar 15, 2022 at 6:50 AM Alexander Biezenski <
Alexander(dot)Biezenski(at)secpsd(dot)ca> wrote:

> Hello,
>
>
>
> I am attempting to install pgadmin4 into a windows container using Docker,
> on a Windows Server 2019 system. The Dockerfile uses an image pulled from ‘
> mcr.microsoft.com/windows/servercore:1809’.
>
>
>
> I am restricted to cmd/PowerShell and am having issues at the setup.py
> step in the deployment guide.
>
>
>
> If I try to use the Dockerfile RUN functionality to run the setup.py
> script (RUN C:\'program files'\'pgadmin 4'\v6\python\python.exe C:\'program
> files'\'pgadmin 4'\v6\web\setup.py), it asks for the initial email, and
> then errors out. There is not an easy way (that I have found), to pipe
> through an argument mid script, to answer the email/password prompt.
>
>
>
> I then tried to stop short of that run step and finish this step manually
> via an exec <container> PowerShell and commit the changes setup.py back to
> the image. However, when I manually run the setup.py in this nested
> PowerShell, the prompt appears, and then refuses to accept input. I can put
> whatever text I want in, hit enter, and it just goes to the next line, with
> no further messages; no errors, not anything.
>
>
>
> Do you have any suggestions? Is there an argument setting I am missing?
> Could I pre-generate the files somewhere and copy them over? Or is this
> simply unsupported?
>
>
>
> Thank you,
>
>
>
> Alexander Biezenski
>
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