Neo4j in Docker plugins are not recognized

[martin_ebert]

When I run Neo4j in Docker, the plugins don't work. In my case: APOC and ALGO.

1.What did I do? Dockerfile created.

FROM neo4j:3.5.8

# Enable APOCs
ENV APOC_VERSION 3.5.0.4
ENV APOC_URL https://github.com/neo4j-contrib/neo4j-apoc-procedures/releases/download/${APOC_VERSION}/apoc-${APOC_VERSION}-all.jar
RUN (cd /var/lib/neo4j/plugins && curl -OL $APOC_URL)

# Enable Algorithms
ENV ALGOS_VERSION 3.5.8.0
ENV ALGOS_URL http://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/com.neo4j.graphalgorithms.dist/neo4j-graph-algorithms-$ALGOS_VERSION-standalone.jar
RUN (cd /var/lib/neo4j/plugins && curl -OL $ALGOS_URL)

EXPOSE 7474 7473 7687

RUN apt-get update
RUN apt-get install nano

CMD ["neo4j"]

2. Build image

docker build --tag=myimage .

3. Run Container

docker run \
    --name my_container \
    -p 7474:7474 -p 7687:7687 \
    -v $HOME/neo4j/data:/data \
    -v $HOME/neo4j/logs:/logs \
    -v $HOME/neo4j/plugins:/plugins \
    -e NEO4J_dbms_memory_pagecache_size=4G \
    -e NEO4J_apoc_export_file_enabled=true \
    -e NEO4J_apoc_import_file_enabled=true \
    -e NEO4J_apoc_import_file_use__neo4j__config=true \
    -e NEO4J_dbms_security_procedures_unrestricted=apoc.\\\*,algo.\\\* \
    -e NEO4J_AUTH=neo4j/neo4j \
    myimage

In the config file the highlighted definition looks a little bit wrong.

But even if I correct this manually

dbms.security.procedures.unrestricted=apoc.*,algo.*

and use "neo4j restart", I can't use apoc or algo functionality.

How do I get this to work?

The plugins themselves are in the right folder:

[david_fauth]

Can you try mounting your plugins directory as /var/lib/neo4j/plugins

Dave

[michael_hunger]

@andrew.jefferson worked on some cool stuff.

Try it out:

twitter.com

Andrew Jefferson (EastlondonDev)

@darthvader42 @mdavidallen It's taken a little longer than I hoped! But you can now run this: `docker run -it --rm --env 'NEO4JLABS_PLUGINS=["apoc", "graph-algorithms"]' neo4j:3.5.11`

9:17 AM - 21 Jul 2019 9 4

[sngermiyanoglu]

I have the same issue regarding apoc running in docker.

I have the same issue How can I fix it ?

Here is the link : https://community.neo4j.com/t5/drivers-stacks/neo4j-with-shortestpath-by-using-many-cities-with-its-...

[david_allen · Accepted solution]

What I think your dockerfile says is that you built the plugins into a custom container you built -- and then also mounted a /plugins directory over top of what the container you built provided. So maybe the directory you mounted (which shouldn't have been necessary) didn't contain them?

Note that if you use the vanilla docker container and do what @david.fauth was suggesting it should work. You can either build the plugins into the container and run your container without argument, or use the vanilla container and run with a mount argument -- but don't do both.