Postleaf Docker Container

Docker container for Postleaf. Currently just for trying out Postleaf.

IMPORTANT: Not recommended for production usage. Postleaf is currently in Alpha testing phase and this Dockerfile is currently not for production.

Features

This container has the following services/software build in:

• Nginx 1.13.0
• Node 7.9.0
• Postleaf 1.0.0-alpha.2

Current Known Issues

1.Error while building container

While building the container you will see this error:

Error: Postleaf failed to start.

SequelizeUniqueConstraintError: Validation error

This is expected while building the image. The final container will work as expected after this error.

This is because for some reason the process needs to run and fail once before permissions on the postleaf directory can properly be set. I'm hoping to have this sorted in later releases.

Usage

1. Once Docker is installed clone this repo: git clone https://github.com/lukewatts/postleaf-docker.git
2. Change into postleaf-docker directory: cd postleaf-docker
3. Ensure docker command has sudo rights: sudo usermod -aG docker sudo
4. Build container: docker build -t postleaf .
5. Run the container: docker run -tid -v /some/local/path:/usr/share/nginx/html -p 80:80 --name postleaf_dev postleaf
6. Visit the url (http://127.0.0.1 or http://localhost)

Usage (for quick testing)

1. Follow steps 1 - 4 above.
2. Run the container so it removes the container when stopped: docker run -ti --rm -p 80:80 --name postleaf_test postleaf
3. Visit the url

Access container while it is running

If you want to look at the code of Postleaf or debug issues etc you will need to use exec to access the container while it's running.

docker exec -it postleaf_dev bash

NOTE: To make edits you will need to install Vim or Nano yourself.

apt-get install vim nano

If you are not running on localhost

If you are testing Postleaf on a domain, vhost or on a server with a public IP you will notice the styles are not correctly loaded on the login screen.

To fix this you will need to add the --env flag to set the APP_URL variable.

Assuming you're domain is http://postleaf.dev/ you will need to use the following command when running the container:

docker run -tid -p 80:80 --env APP_URL=http://postleaf.dev/ --name postleaf_dev postleaf

Future features

• Allow overriding all ENV variables in .env file. Not just APP_URL
• Fix weird permissions bugs
• Add to Docker Hub

Issues

For issues with this Docker file, such as build or runtime issues create a new issues here: Postleaf Docker Issues

For help with Postleaf go here: Posteaf Support Forum

For bugs with Postleaf itself submit issues here: Postleaf Issues

Reasources

• Postleaf Website
• Docker Documentation

Licence

MIT