weuder / elgg-docker

Supported tags and respective Dockerfile links

• 2.0 (Dockerfile), lastest (Dockerfile)
• 1.12 (Dockerfile)

What is Elgg ?

Elgg is an award-winning social networking engine, delivering the building blocks that enable businesses, schools, universities and associations to create their own fully-featured social networks and applications.

For more information and related for Elgg, please visit www.elgg.org.

How to use this image

Before you start you need to have installed:

• composer: https://getcomposer.org/download/
• docker: http://docs.docker.com/linux/step_one/ or https://docs.docker.com/installation/ubuntulinux/
• docker-compose: https://docs.docker.com/compose/install/

1.. Get the Elgg:

$ 

& mkdir elgg && cd elgg
$ composer.phar global require "fxp/composer-asset-plugin:~1.1.1"
$ composer create-project elgg/starter-project:dev-master .
$ composer.phar install

See http://learn.elgg.org/en/stable/intro/install.html#upload-elgg

2.. Create file docker-compose.yml at your project directory, for running multi-container applications with docker-compose:

web:
  image: keviocastro/elgg-docker:2.0
  ports:
    - "8000:80" #If you change the port, you must also change the environment variable ELGG_WWW_ROOT
  links:
    - mysql
  volumes:
    - .:/var/www/html/
  environment:
    MYSQL_USER: root
    MYSQL_PASS: root-pass
    ELGG_USERNAME: admin
    ELGG_PASSWORD: admin-pass
    ELGG_WWW_ROOT: http://localhost:8000
mysql:
  image: mysql:5.6  
  environment:
    MYSQL_DATABASE: elgg
    MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: root-pass

$ docker-compose up -d

3.. Install the Elgg:

$ docker exec elgg_web_1 /elgg-docker/elgg-install.sh

Visit your Elgg site: http://localhost:8000/

Environment Variables

When you start the elgg-docker image, you can adjust the configuration of the elgg instance by passing one or more environment variables. The default values are in Dockerfile file: Dockerfile

You can modify the parameters by passing one or more environment variables in file docker-compose.yml

Example:

web:
  image: keviocastro/elgg-docker:2.0
  environment:
    MYSQL_USER: elgg
    MYSQL_PASS: elgg-pass
    ELGG_DISPLAY_NAME: my-name
    ELGG_DB_PREFIX: my-elgg
    TIMEZONE: America/Sao_Paulo

• TIMEZONE The timezone of the server and php
• MYSQL_USER The DB username to create
• MYSQL_PASS The DB password to set on the created user
• ELGG_DB_HOST The DB host Elgg will use
• ELGG_DB_USER The DB user Elgg will use
• ELGG_DB_PASS The DB password Elgg will use
• ELGG_DB_PREFIX Elgg's DB prefix
• ELGG_DB_NAME The name of the DB Elgg will use
• ELGG_SITE_NAME Elgg's site name
• ELGG_SITE_EMAIL Elgg site email address
• ELGG_WWW_ROOT Elgg's www_root (Don't change this unless you modify run.sh and the installation)
• ELGG_DATA_ROOT The data_root for Elgg (/media)
• ELGG_DISPLAY_NAME The display name for the admin user
• ELGG_EMAIL The email address for the admin user (must be a well-formed, though not necessarily value, address)
• ELGG_USERNAME The username of the admin user
• ELGG_PASSWORD The password for the admin user
• ELGG_PATH The location Elgg is installed (Don't change this unless you modify run.sh and the installation)
• ELGG_SITE_ACCESS The default site access