I’m trying to re-create my docker container for my OC installation on another machine.
I pulled all the octobercms-files from git and then cd to the folder one step above to do:
bash -c "$(curl https://octobercms.com/api/dockerdevinstaller)"
It successfully re-created the DB files, so I did a composer install in the docker container, adding my credentials.
But in the messages of my new docker desktop container it said:
Copying MySQL database files to /var/lib/october-mysql...
Starting MariaDB database server: mariadbd.
mysqld is alive
ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: NO)
Now my DB is empty and I can’t php artisan october:migrate.
Should I have to put my database-files also under git or did I misunderstood something else?
I now created a fresh OC docker installation to get a proper DB, then I copied my theme and my plugin inside and did run composer install.
It was a bit trickier to put that under GIT again.
This worked, but I guess, there should be an easier way…
Hi @maki3000,
I was able to restore a container and the database. In your description you don’t mention the octobercms-database directory. Did you copy it to the other machine too?
That’s how I tested the the restoring feature:
- Installed the Docker image using the Interactive Bash Script for macOS
- Logged into the October CMS backend and created some test data.
- Deleted the container.
- Copied the octobercms-database and octobercms-files directories to a new directory. I think it corresponds to your step where you pull octobercms-files from git.
- Executed
bash -c "$(curl https://octobercms.com/api/dockerdevinstaller)" in the new directory.
drwxr-xr-x@ 14 alexey staff 448 25 Nov 16:06 octobercms-database
drwxr-xr-x@ 33 alexey staff 1056 25 Nov 16:05 octobercms-files
docker-test-2 $ bash -c "$(curl https://octobercms.com/api/dockerdevinstaller)"
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 3353 100 3353 0 0 16934 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 16849
The octobercms-database directory already exists, we will use it.
The octobercms-files directory already exists, we will use it.
Enter a TCP port number for accessing the application in a browser. Leave empty to use the default port 8080.
http://localhost:8093
Enter a TCP port number for accessing the MySQL server running in the container. Leave empty to use the default port 3333.
MySQL port:
Enter the container name. Leave empty to use the default value "octobercms-dev".
Container name:
Pulling the latest October CMS Dev docker image...
latest: Pulling from octobercms/october-dev
Digest: sha256:4fed7e171d722c48ea8a16831d651aee1c5c3d781130ce1b325b0cd8a9aa4d23
Status: Image is up to date for octobercms/october-dev:latest
docker.io/octobercms/october-dev:latest
Creating the container...
f480d2a7ba576667a2fb7c6a661e7670ffafc29465a63d614691446a6e57e228
Configuring the container. It can take several minutes.
..
The container has been successfully created and started.
Installation URL: http://localhost:8093
Platform files: /Users/alexey/tmp/docker-test-2/octobercms-files
MySQL command to access the database: mysql --host=127.0.0.1 --user=root --password=root --port=3333 octobercms
Container name: octobercms-dev
After that I logged into October CMS running and the new container and confirmed that all the data was restored.
If you use git for copying your files between the machines, please note that it can change file permissions. If there’s an issue with permissions, I’d compare file permissions in the database folder on the source and destination machine. But your case it doesn’t look like a file permissions issue.
I hope this helps,
Hey @alexey.bobkov
So would you put the octobercms-database folder also under GIT?
I thought, I put only the files under GIT, but maybe that’s wrong.
Hi @maki3000,
Both directories are needed for restoring a container. I haven’t tested moving a container to another machine tho. I would stop the source container before copying the database files. Make sure to add hidden files to Git - in both octobercms-database and octobercms-files directories. Maybe copying ZIP archives would be better than copying individual files.
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Hello @alexey.bobkov,
I have a follow up question:
How would you write the .gitignore files for octobercms-database and octobercms-files?
My .gitignore for octobercms-files now looks like this:
# Common
composer.phar
.DS_Store
.idea
.env
.env.*.php
.env.php
auth.json
php_errors.log
nginx-error.log
nginx-access.log
nginx-ssl.access.log
nginx-ssl.error.log
php-errors.log
sftp-config.json
.ftpconfig
.vscode/
selenium.php
composer.lock
package-lock.json
/node_modules
_ide_helper.php
.phpunit.result.cache
nbproject
.phpstorm.meta.php
# Project
/bootstrap/compiled.php
/vendor
I think, this was generated when setting up the docker image and it looks very legit in my opinion.
But I don’t know which files to put under git in folder octobercms-database.
The only information I found is this example from Google:
I guess, the schema is needed under GIT, while the data in the tables should be left out.
Hello @maki3000,
How would you write the .gitignore files for octobercms-database and octobercms-files ?
The system wasn’t designed for synchronizing containers. It’s purpose is restoring container data if a container was corrupted or accidentally deleted.
The .gitignore content is suitable for managing an October CMS project source code with git. For that reason, there is the .env file, for example. It should not be pushed to a public repository. But it must be pushed if you want to have two copies of the project working with the same database content. The auth.json file should also be ignored for public repositories. Feel free to remove those files from .gitignore but make sure you are not pushing any sensitive data to public repositories. It includes auth.json after you license your container.
For octobercms-database - I’m not sure what files should be ignored. https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/innodb-migration.html can be a good source of information.
I hope this helps,
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