Everything disappears each time the container restarts... about limesurvey-docker

[adamzammit]

can you please share your full docker-compose file.

When you say "everything erases" do you mean the files or the LimeSurvey content such as surveys? LimeSurvey stores most data in the database so please ensure that the database container volume will persist.

[mnfctrdinitaly]

Thanks for the response!

please ensure that the database container volume will persist

That might be my issue... what is the volume that contains the db? Here's the complete compose

version: '2'
services:
  limesurvey:
    image: adamzammit/limesurvey
    container_name: ccea-lime
    networks:
      - cceadockernet
    restart: always
    expose:
      - 80
    environment:
      LIMESURVEY_DB_HOST: ccea-lime-db
      LIMESURVEY_DB_PASSWORD: secret
      LIMESURVEY_ADMIN_USER: secret
      LIMESURVEY_ADMIN_PASSWORD: secret
      LIMESURVEY_ADMIN_NAME: secret
      LIMESURVEY_ADMIN_EMAIL: secret
      LIMESURVEY_FROM_EMAIL: secret
      LIMESURVEY_SMTP_HOST: secret
      LIMESURVEY_SMTP_USER: secret
      LIMESURVEY_SMTP_PASSWORD: secret
      LIMESURVEY_SMTP_SSL: ssl
      LIMESURVEY_DEBUG: 1
    volumes:
      - /docker/ccea/lime/uploads:/var/www/html/upload
      - /docker/ccea/lime/plugins:/var/www/html/plugins
      - /docker/ccea/lime/config:/var/www/html/application/config
      - /docker/ccea/lime/session:/var/lime/sessions
  mysql:
    image: mariadb:10.5
    container_name: ccea-lime-db
    networks:
      - cceadockernet
    restart: always
    environment:
      MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: secret
networks:
  cceadockernet:
    external: true

I'm guessing that I need another volume bind in the mysql service?

Additionally, I renamed the container so that I can differentiate it from another instance running on the same host. Is that possibly an issue?

[adamzammit]

try adding this to the mysql service

volumes:
   - /docker/ccea/lime/mysql:/var/lib/mysql

[mnfctrdinitaly]

You are magical!

Thank you for the help! Adding that line to the docker-compose.yml did the trick! You may want to add that to the README.md for future noobs like me.

[mnfctrdinitaly]

First off, thanks again for your help! I really appreciate it and hope I am not taking advantage of your kindness.

Since making this change, I get this error upon survey submit... any thoughts?

LimeSurveyError.pdf

[mnfctrdinitaly]

So a simple restart of the container and a refresh of the browser has solved this, but I'm not sure what caused it to begin with. Thanks for the help!