mondedie/docker-flarum

What is this ?

Simple forum software for building great communities. http://flarum.org/

Features

• Lightweight & secure image
• Based on Alpine Linux with nginx and PHP 7.2
• Latest Flarum Core (v0.1.0-beta.8.1)
• MySQL/Mariadb driver
• OPCache extension configured

Build-time variables

• VERSION = Version of flarum/flarum skeleton (default: v0.1.0-beta.8.1)

Ports

• 8888

Volume

• /flarum/app/public/assets : Flarum assets directory
• /flarum/app/extensions : Flarum extension directory
• /etc/nginx/conf.d : Nginx location directory

Environment variables

Variable	Description	Type	Default value
UID	Flarum user id	optional	991
GID	Flarum group id	optional	991
DEBUG	Flarum debug mode	optional	false
FORUM_URL	Forum URL	required	none
DB_HOST	MariaDB instance ip/hostname	optional	mariadb
DB_USER	MariaDB database username	optional	flarum
DB_NAME	MariaDB database name	optional	flarum
DB_PASS	MariaDB database password	required	none
DB_PREF	Flarum tables prefix	optional	none
DB_PORT	MariaDB database port	optional	3306
UPLOAD_MAX_SIZE	The maximum size of an uploaded file	optional	50M
PHP_MEMORY_LIMIT	PHP memory limit	optional	128M
OPCACHE_MEMORY_LIMIT	OPcache memory size in megabytes	optional	128
LOG_TO_STDOUT	Enable nginx and php error logs to stdout	optional	false

Required environment variable for first installation

Variable	Description	Type	Default value
FLARUM_ADMIN_USER	Name of your user admin	required	none
FLARUM_ADMIN_PASS	User admin password	required	none
FLARUM_ADMIN_MAIL	User admin adress mail	required	none
FLARUM_TITLE	Set a name of your flarum	optional	Docker-Flarum

Installation

1 - Pull flarum image

# Pull from hub.docker.com :
docker pull mondedie/docker-flarum:0.1.0-beta.8.1-stable

# or build it manually :
docker build -t mondedie/docker-flarum https://github.com/mondediefr/flarum.git#master

2 - Docker-compose.yml

version: "3"

services:
  flarum:
    image: mondedie/docker-flarum:0.1.0-beta.8.1-stable
    container_name: flarum
    env_file:
      - /mnt/docker/flarum/flarum.env
    volumes:
      - /mnt/docker/flarum/assets:/flarum/app/public/assets
      - /mnt/docker/flarum/extensions:/flarum/app/extensions
      - /mnt/docker/flarum/nginx:/etc/nginx/conf.d
    depends_on:
      - mariadb

  mariadb:
    image: mariadb:10.2
    container_name: mariadb
    environment:
      - MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=xxxxxxxxxx
      - MYSQL_DATABASE=flarum
      - MYSQL_USER=flarum
      - MYSQL_PASSWORD=xxxxxxxxxx
    volumes:
      - /mnt/docker/mysql/db:/var/lib/mysql

3 - Run it

You need a reverse proxy to access flarum, this is not described here. You can use the solution of your choice (Traefik, Nginx, Apache, Haproxy, Caddy, H2O...etc).

Create a environment file (see docker-compose: /mnt/docker/flarum/flarum.env here)

# vi /mnt/docker/flarum/flarum.env

DEBUG=false
FORUM_URL=http://domain.tld

# Database configuration
DB_HOST=mariadb
DB_NAME=flarum
DB_USER=flarum
DB_PASS=xxxxxxxxxx
DB_PREF=flarum_
DB_PORT=3306

# User admin flarum (environment variable for first installation)
# /!\ admin password must contain at least 8 characters /!\
FLARUM_ADMIN_USER=admin
FLARUM_ADMIN_PASS=xxxxxxxxxx
FLARUM_ADMIN_MAIL=admin@domain.tld
FLARUM_TITLE=Test flarum

Run your docker-compose

docker-compose up -d

• ⚠️ Your admin password must contain at least 8 characters (FLARUM_ADMIN_PASS).
• If you get an error 500 with Something went wrong message, switch the DEBUG environment variable to true to see the actual error message in your browser.

Upgrade to v0.1.0-beta.8.1 from v0.1.0-beta.7.2

⚠️ Backup your database, config.php, composer.lock and assets folder
⚠️ Disable all 3rd party extensions prior to upgrading in panel admin.

1 - Add installed.txt file in assets folder
Make sure to mount your assets folder with the folder /flarum/app/public/assets

touch /mnt/docker/flarum/assets/installed.txt
chown UID:GID /mnt/docker/flarum/assets/installed.txt

2 - Create your own environment file

# vi /mnt/docker/flarum/flarum.env

DEBUG=false
FORUM_URL=http://domain.tld

# Database configuration
DB_HOST=mariadb
DB_NAME=flarum
DB_USER=flarum
DB_PASS=xxxxxxxxxx
DB_PREF=flarum_
DB_PORT=3306

# environment variable not required
#FLARUM_ADMIN_USER=admin
#FLARUM_ADMIN_PASS=xxxxxxxxxx
#FLARUM_ADMIN_MAIL=admin@domain.tld
#FLARUM_TITLE=Test flarum

chown UID:GID /mnt/docker/flarum/flarum.env

3 - Update your docker-compose file, see an example here

4 - Pull the last docker images

docker pull mondedie/docker-flarum:0.1.0-beta.8.1-stable
docker-compose stop flarum
docker-compose rm flarum
docker-compose up -d

5 - Updating your database and removing old assets:

docker exec -ti flarum php /flarum/app/flarum migrate
docker exec -ti flarum php /flarum/app/flarum cache:clear

Since the flarum-english extension has been renamed to flarum-lang-english, you'll need to to re-enable it from the admin panel.
After that your upgrade is finish. 🎉 🎉

Upgrade to v0.1.0-beta.7.2 from v0.1.0-beta.6

⚠️ Disable 3rd party extensions prior to upgrading.

docker pull mondedie/docker-flarum:0.1.0-beta.7.2-stable
docker-compose up -d

Navigate to yourforum.com/admin, enter your database password and update.

Remove and restart your container:

docker-compose stop flarum
docker-compose rm flarum
docker-compose up -d

Install custom extensions

Flarum extensions list : https://flagrow.io/extensions

Install an extension

docker exec -ti flarum extension require some/extension

Remove an extension

docker exec -ti flarum extension remove some/extension

List all extensions

docker exec -ti flarum extension list

Custom vhost flarum nginx

File to change the vhost flarum /etc/nginx/conf.d/custom-vhost-flarum.conf
To use file custom-vhost-flarum.conf add volume /etc/nginx/conf.d

Custom composer repositories

To use the composer repository system, add your repo name and json representation in /mnt/docker/flarum/extensions/composer.repositories.txt:

my_private_repo|{"type":"path","url":"extensions/*/"}
my_public_repo|{"type":"vcs","url":"https://github.com/my/repo"}

Example for a private repository in github

Add this in /mnt/docker/flarum/extensions/composer.repositories.txt

username|{"type":"vcs","url":"https://github.com/username/my-private-repo"}

Create a token in github with full control of privates repository
https://github.com/settings/tokens

Add your token in the file /mnt/docker/flarum/extensions/auth.token.txt replace by your token

github|<TOKEN>

Add your repo in the list file /mnt/docker/flarum/extensions/list

username/my-private-repo:0.1.0

https://getcomposer.org/doc/03-cli.md#modifying-repositories