Fix ollama not reachable from host due to hardcoded OLLAMA_HOST in entrypoint

The IPEX-LLM bundled start-ollama.sh hardcodes OLLAMA_HOST=127.0.0.1 and
OLLAMA_KEEP_ALIVE=10m, overriding docker-compose environment variables and
preventing external connections through Docker port mapping.

- Add custom start-ollama.sh that honours env vars with sensible defaults
- Mount it read-only into the container
- Fix LD_LIBRARY_PATH env var syntax (: -> =)
- Add .gitignore for IDE/swap/webui data files
- Update CHANGELOG and README with fix documentation

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
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Then launch your web browser to http://localhost:3000 to launch the web ui. Create a local OpenWeb UI credential, then click the settings icon in the top right of the screen, then select 'Models', then click 'Show', then download a model like 'llama3.1:8b-instruct-q8_0' for Intel ARC A770 16GB VRAM
### Custom `start-ollama.sh` entrypoint
The upstream IPEX-LLM portable zip ships a `start-ollama.sh` that hardcodes
`OLLAMA_HOST=127.0.0.1` and `OLLAMA_KEEP_ALIVE=10m`, preventing the container
from accepting connections via Docker port mapping and ignoring Compose
environment overrides.
This repo includes a corrected `start-ollama.sh` (mounted read-only into the
container) that honours environment variables set in `docker-compose.yml`,
falling back to sensible defaults (`0.0.0.0:11434`, `24h`).
### Update to the latest IPEX-LLM Portable Zip Version
To update to the latest portable zip version of IPEX-LLM's Ollama, update the compose file with the build arguments shown below, using the latest `ollama-*.tgz` release from https://github.com/intel/ipex-llm/releases/tag/v2.3.0-nightly , then rebuild the image.