Question about Permission on folders for docker compose

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HI
I was wondering if someone could shed some light on the issue im having, Currently im trying to migrate a platform which was developed in php, and trying to migrate to a LAMP docker environment. But it seems that im having issue with permissions. it seems that the folder of the html has to be with the user ubuntu instead of root

This is my docker compose


version: "3"

services:
  webserver:
    build:
      context: ./bin/${PHPVERSION}
    container_name: "${COMPOSE_PROJECT_NAME}-${PHPVERSION}"
    restart: "always"
    ports:
      - "${HOST_MACHINE_UNSECURE_HOST_PORT}:80"
      - "${HOST_MACHINE_SECURE_HOST_PORT}:443"
    links:
      - database
    volumes:
      - ${DOCUMENT_ROOT-./www}:/var/www/html:rw
      - ${PHP_INI-./config/php/php.ini}:/usr/local/etc/php/php.ini
      - ${SSL_DIR-./config/ssl}:/etc/apache2/ssl/
      - ${VHOSTS_DIR-./config/vhosts}:/etc/apache2/sites-enabled
      - ${LOG_DIR-./logs/apache2}:/var/log/apache2
      - ${XDEBUG_LOG_DIR-./logs/xdebug}:/var/log/xdebug
      - /ftp:/ftp:rw
      - /tmp:/tmp:rw
      - /etc/timezone:/etc/timezone:ro
      - /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro
    environment:
      APACHE_DOCUMENT_ROOT: ${APACHE_DOCUMENT_ROOT-/var/www/html}
      PMA_PORT: ${HOST_MACHINE_PMA_PORT}
      MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: ${MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD}
      MYSQL_USER: ${MYSQL_USER}
      MYSQL_PASSWORD: ${MYSQL_PASSWORD}
      MYSQL_DATABASE: ${MYSQL_DATABASE}
      HOST_MACHINE_MYSQL_PORT: ${HOST_MACHINE_MYSQL_PORT}
      XDEBUG_CONFIG: "client_host=host.docker.internal remote_port=${XDEBUG_PORT}"
    extra_hosts:
      - "host.docker.internal:host-gateway"
  database:
    build:
      context: "./bin/${DATABASE}"
    container_name: "${COMPOSE_PROJECT_NAME}-${DATABASE}"
    restart: "always"
    ports:
      - "127.0.0.1:${HOST_MACHINE_MYSQL_PORT}:3306"
    volumes:
      - /root/lyn/db.sql:/docker-entrypoint-initdb.d/init.sql:rw
#      - ${MYSQL_INITDB_DIR-./config/initdb}:/docker-entrypoint-initdb.d
      - ${MYSQL_DATA_DIR-./data/mysql}:/var/lib/mysql
      - ${MYSQL_LOG_DIR-./logs/mysql}:/var/log/mysql
      - /etc/timezone:/etc/timezone:ro
      - /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro
      - /root/lyn/my.cnf:/etc/mysql/my.cnf
    environment:
      MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: ${MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD}
      MYSQL_DATABASE: ${MYSQL_DATABASE}
      MYSQL_USER: ${MYSQL_USER}
      MYSQL_PASSWORD: ${MYSQL_PASSWORD}
  phpmyadmin:
    image: phpmyadmin
    container_name: "${COMPOSE_PROJECT_NAME}-phpmyadmin"
    links:
      - database
    environment:
      PMA_HOST: database
      PMA_PORT: 3306
      PMA_USER: root
      PMA_PASSWORD: ${MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD}
      MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: ${MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD}
      MYSQL_USER: ${MYSQL_USER}
      MYSQL_PASSWORD: ${MYSQL_PASSWORD}
      UPLOAD_LIMIT: ${UPLOAD_LIMIT}
      MEMORY_LIMIT: ${MEMORY_LIMIT}
    ports:
      - "${HOST_MACHINE_PMA_PORT}:80"
      - "${HOST_MACHINE_PMA_SECURE_PORT}:443"
    volumes:
      - /sessions
      - ${PHP_INI-./config/php/php.ini}:/usr/local/etc/php/conf.d/php-phpmyadmin.ini
  redis:
    container_name: "${COMPOSE_PROJECT_NAME}-redis"
    image: redis:latest
    ports:
      - "127.0.0.1:${HOST_MACHINE_REDIS_PORT}:6379"

i was reading a bit maybe something like this adding this part

        entrypoint: |
            /bin/sh -c "chown ubuntu:ubuntu /var/www/html"

and this part

 user: ubuntu:ubuntu

but not sure doing that would damage the other files?

Thank you

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Can you give us more details? I don’t understand why it should be owned by “ubuntu” unless you want to edit files on the host that were generated inside the container.

If you change the entrypoint that way, the server will not even start. The entrypoint is the part of the final command that runs when you start the container. It is not an “init” script which runs before the main command.

It just “tells” Dcoker to start the process inside the container as ubuntu with only one group “ubuntu”, but I don’t think that user will exist in your container.

What is your goal exactly?