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I've been doing some comparisons between nodebb and discourse. Both appear to be very good solutions but discourse appears to have better documentation for Docker.

I've searched through the forum here and most posts seem to indicate a general dislike of docker. I did find what appears to be a link to old official documentation providing steps for installation with docker.:

Installing NodeBB with Docker — NodeBB 0.7.3 documentation

However, the latest documentation doesn't appear to have a section for docker:

NodeBB Documentation

I have a decent amount of experience with docker / docker-compose and recognize it's not perfect but find the advantages outweigh the disadvantages. Is there any official guidance for nodebb with docker? Is there any official documentation / installation guides or docker-compose files?

EDIT: I found what looks to be an official nodebb Docker container on dockerhub:

Docker Hub

The instructions on the page just refer to the github page which doesn't really discuss docker or docker-compose. However, there is a docker-compose.yml in the repo that looks like a potential example. I'll follow this and see how it works out. If this intended to be officially supported, it would be helpful to update some of the documentation to point to them. If that's what's intended, I'd be willing to modify and put our a PR if desired.

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@julian I just ran into this as well. It looks like any skin other than default doesn't load due to the mime type.

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@Per0x @evgenymagata ,

It's typical to mount a volume for your DB so the data persists. I typically use docker-compose as it's easier to execute and maintain. I was able to get this working but I had to modify a docker-compose file and modify the mongod configuration file change in the container to enable mongodb authentication.

I'm currently evaluating nodebb and discourse for use by a client. The config change I made won't be persistent as I modified the file in the running container. That's obviously not the correct way to solve the problem.

In case it's helpful, here's the docker-compose I used:
version: '3.5'

services:
node:
image: nodebb/docker
restart: unless-stopped
depends_on:
- db
ports:
- "4567:4567"

db:
image: mongo:bionic
restart: unless-stopped
ports:
- "27017:27017"
environment:
MONGO_INITDB_ROOT_USERNAME: root
MONGO_INITDB_ROOT_PASSWORD: root
volumes:
- bbdata:/data/db

volumes:
bbdata:

And here's a link that helps understand the mongod.conf file changes:

Stampery Inc. / Jan 31, 2017

How to Enable Authentication on MongoDB

Learn how to properly configure the most important and fundamental security feature that comes with MongoDB

Additionally, when running the web installer for nodebb, you'll need to tell it the database is at the host specified in the docker-compose (e.g. 'db'), not localhost.

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