Monica - Docker Hub

Find Monica's image on the Docker hub here

Introduction

Monica is an open source personal relationship management system to organize the interactions with your loved ones.

Prerequisites:

Have a machine capable of pulling docker images from the web. Follow my Docker guide for help.

Guide

1. mkdir web

curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/monicahq/docker/main/.examples/full/web/nginx.conf -o web/nginx.conf

curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/monicahq/docker/main/.examples/full/web/Dockerfile -o web/Dockerfile

2. Edit the docker-compose.yml file and paste my edited monica docker-compose.yml file in there.

3. You may need to change the APP_KEY: If this is the case, use Norton's password generator (or any 32-char key generator). Set the length to 32 and exclude punctuation.

as so:

4. In this same directory, run docker-compose up -d and docker ps to check if the process has run correctly. If so, go to docker01-michael:8085 and you should see the Monica setup page.

5. Run this command once: docker-compose exec app php artisan setup:production

6. Once this is done, follow the instructions on the webpage and enjoy Monica!

Problems (resolved in guide)

• Even after generating a 32 character key I kept getting an error when I went to my webpage telling me I was using an unsupported cipher. Using the command Monica gives you to generate this key echo -n 'base64:'; openssl rand -base64 32 does NOT work. Every time this command is used, the key always has punctuation which is unsupported.

• All other problems were a result of using an incorrectly formatted docker-compose.yml file. I'll include Monica's page here for assistance