Docker only setup - invoiceninja/dockerfiles GitHub Wiki

⚠ī¸ The following guides aims at a completely fresh install of Invoice Ninja with any web server you want and any database supported. The is no migration scenario covered.

This might be a suitable guide for you if

  • your web server is on your host system already and you don't need another one bundled with IN
  • your database is on your host or any other server and you don't need another database instance
  • you just need IN and no additional web server and/or database

⚠ī¸ Please make sure you have enough knowledge to connect your web server to the running Invoice Ninja instance.

Prerequisites

ℹī¸ Read the prerequisites section carefully as you need all of these information for a proper setup.

Run the instance

To run the Invoice Ninja instance you need to issue this command:

docker run -d \
  -v /var/invoiceninja/public:/var/app/public \
  -v /var/invoiceninja/storage:/var/app/storage \
  -e APP_URL='http://ninja.dev' \
  -e APP_KEY='<INSERT THE GENERATED APPLICATION KEY HERE>' \
  -e DB_HOST='localhost' \
  -e DB_DATABASE='ninja' \
  -e DB_USERNAME='ninja' \
  -e DB_PASSWORD='ninja' \
  -p '9000:9000' \
  --name invoiceninja \
  invoiceninja/invoiceninja:alpine-4

The command above starts an instance

  • of Invoice Ninja 4
  • with host-mounted folders
  • listening on port 9000 - that's important for your web server

All configuration is passed via environment variables. Check the variables available here, depending on which version of Invoice Ninja you are going to run.