Selfhosted InvoiceNinja on QnapNAS does not start setup

annoni · February 28, 2022, 12:50am

Hi everyone,
I have been working for days to get InvoiceNinja to be hosted on my QNap NAS, using Docker compose and the official docker-compose.yml file. I made the necessary changes (app key) and setup the volumes to point to the right place on the Host.

I believe it finally worked today and I see no errors and restarts any more. But on entering the setup page all I get is the login page with no way to setup the software for the first time use (please check the attachment). So im kind of stuck here not knowing what to do. What am I doing wrong?

Thank you so much for your help.

hillel · February 28, 2022, 4:55am

Hi,

Are you able to access the /setup page directly?

@david do you have any suggestions?

david · February 28, 2022, 5:28am

Prior to starting the container for the first time you needed to set your username/password in the env file

github.com

invoiceninja/dockerfiles/blob/27b6c82fe45a45a2ba0724ef30bb7ae1fd87104a/env#L20




# DB connection
DB_HOST=db
DB_PORT=3306
DB_DATABASE=ninja
DB_USERNAME=ninja
DB_PASSWORD=ninja


# Create initial user
# Default to these values if empty
# IN_USER_EMAIL=admin@example.com
# IN_PASSWORD=changeme!
IN_USER_EMAIL=
IN_PASSWORD=


# Mail options
MAIL_MAILER=log
MAIL_HOST=smtp.mailtrap.io
MAIL_PORT=2525
MAIL_USERNAME=null
MAIL_PASSWORD=null

You’ll be able to log into your installation now with these defaults… once you have logged in navigate to Settings > User Details and update your email address.

annoni · February 28, 2022, 8:20am

Thank you @david and @hillel for your quick response. It works with the default settings. It was embarassing that I overlooked this. I think I was just misled with multiple youtube videos which start with a setup page after the installation, which I would also expect to be logical rather than being presented with a login screen.

Anyway, thanks again.