How to install invoiceninja via docker compose?

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I dont want to git clone the invoiceninja/invoiceninja repository every time. So i just went to docker and built this bare minimal docker-compose out of the docker run command. After i do docker compose up I am never able to access the app via localhost. What am i missing here?

docker-compose.yml

version: '3.7'

services: 
  db:
    container_name: db
    image: mariadb:latest
    restart: always
    networks:
      - invoiceninja
    env_file:
      - .secrets/invoiceninja.env

  invoiceninja:
    container_name: invoiceninja
    image: invoiceninja/invoiceninja:latest
    ports:
      - 7777:9000
    restart: always
    volumes:
      - ./invoiceninja/public:/var/app/public:rw,delegated
      - ./invoiceninja/storage:/var/app/storage:rw,delegated
    networks:
      - invoiceninja
    env_file:
      - .secrets/invoiceninja.env
    depends_on:
      - db
networks:
  invoiceninja:

.secrets/invoiceninja.env

MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=ninjaAdm1nPassword
MYSQL_DATABASE=ninja 
MYSQL_USER=ninja 
MYSQL_PASSWORD=privacyStuff
DB_TYPE=mysql
DB_STRICT=false
DB_HOST=db 
DB_PORT=3306 
DB_DATABASE=ninja 
DB_USERNAME=ninja 
DB_PASSWORD=privacyStuff
TZ=Europe/Berlin
APP_KEY=base64:.....
APP_URL=http://localhost:7777
APP_ENV=production
APP_DEBUG=0
APP_CIPHER=AES-256-CBC
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I don’t believe that you can run Invoiceninja without a webserver in it’s own service in the compose stack… as documented in the official docker-compose.yml from the GitHub repo https://github.com/invoiceninja/dockerfiles/blob/master/docker-compose.yml

version: '3.7'

services:
  server:
    image: nginx
    restart: always
    env_file: env
    volumes:
      - ./config/nginx/in-vhost.conf:/etc/nginx/conf.d/in-vhost.conf:ro
      - ./docker/app/public:/var/www/app/public:ro
    depends_on:
      - app
    ports:
      - "80:80"
    networks:
      - invoiceninja
    extra_hosts:
      - "in5.localhost:192.168.0.124 " #host and ip

  app:
    image: invoiceninja/invoiceninja:5
    env_file: env
    restart: always
    volumes:
      - ./config/hosts:/etc/hosts:ro
      - ./docker/app/public:/var/www/app/public:rw,delegated
      - ./docker/app/storage:/var/www/app/storage:rw,delegated
      - ./config/php/php.ini:/usr/local/etc/php/php.ini
      - ./config/php/php-cli.ini:/usr/local/etc/php/php-cli.ini

    depends_on:
      - db
    networks:
      - invoiceninja
    extra_hosts:
      - "in5.localhost:192.168.0.124 " #host and ip

  db:
    image: mysql:8
#    When running on ARM64 use MariaDB instead of MySQL
#    image: mariadb:10.4
#    For auto DB backups comment out image and use the build block below
#    build:
#      context: ./config/mysql
    ports:
      - "3305:3306"
    restart: always
    env_file: env
    volumes:
      - ./docker/mysql/data:/var/lib/mysql:rw,delegated

      # remove comments for next 4 lines if you want auto sql backups
      #- ./docker/mysql/bak:/backups:rw
      #- ./config/mysql/backup-script:/etc/cron.daily/daily:ro
      #- ./config/mysql/backup-script:/etc/cron.weekly/weekly:ro
      #- ./config/mysql/backup-script:/etc/cron.monthly/monthly:ro
    networks:
      - invoiceninja
    extra_hosts:
      - "in5.localhost:192.168.0.124 " #host and ip

networks:
  invoiceninja:

Also you don’t need to git clone nor pull I have just made my .env and docker-compose.yml + the bindings (with permission modifications) and that runs fine also at updates I only do a re-pull from dockerhub and all works as it should.

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Do you mind sharing only the docker-compose you have please. I am trying the default docker-compose in my windows machine and I am getting weird errors only.

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@jenishngl

Okay I don’t have any experience with docker on windows, so this might not have anything to do with it.

  1. Is the volumes that are bind into your containers reference correctly?
  2. Have to been able permissions to do make the equivalate of “chmod 755 docker/app/public”
  3. Also set the owner to the equivalate of “sudo chown -R 1500:1500 docker/app”

Otherwise maybe use docker volumes to let UNIX based filesystem to the “storage” and “public” app persistent folders.

You write that your don’t what to git clone / pull but you need to do all other steps still and just make all files, folders and configs manual then (nicely documented in the README docker-compose section on dockerfiles repo.

Also have you made to app-key with docker run?

docker run --rm -it invoiceninja/invoiceninja php artisan key:generate --show

Save the docker-compose.yml in your dedicated InvoiceNinja folder together with the environment variable file env (and remember to modify with your docker run app-key and maybe secure creds). Now you also need to make some subdirs with config files first the NGINX config need to locate in config/nginx/in-host.conf and then the Host config config/hosts and the rest is not needed. Lastly you need to have the following subfolder docker/app/public and docker/app/storage in the same location as the compose and env file (this is also where invoiceninja/invoiceninja - 1500:1500 need to have ownership and permissions set).

Otherwise to come closer to the problem please post what the docker logs returns?

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I have InvoiceNinja running in docker compose smoothly using this guide: https://youtu.be/xo6a3KtLC2g

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