Invision Community Docker Compose Stack

This repository contains the complete Docker stack needed to run Invision Community 4.7.

Installation

git clone https://github.com/krbob/docker-invision-community.git
cd docker-invision-community

Copy the dotenv file to .env and adjust the values in the .env file. Run the containers:

docker-compose up -d

After the first run, you may also want to generate a certificate and initialize the repository for backups:

docker exec certbot certbot.sh certonly && docker-compose restart apache
docker exec restic /bin/sh -c 'restic -r $RESTIC_REPOSITORY init'

You might also want to enable memory-overcommit on the host to eliminate the Redis warning:

echo "vm.overcommit_memory = 1" | sudo tee /etc/sysctl.d/memory-overcommit.conf

Detailed Configuration

Apache 2.4

• The image includes PHP FPM and SSL configuration.
• A Snakeoil certificate is generated for localhost testing purposes.
• All traffic is redirected to HTTPS.
• Requests without a domain are forbidden.
• acme-challenge support is added.
• RemoteIPHeader support for Cloudflare is included.
• Scripts create-backup.sh and restore-backup.sh create and restore backups of www files, respectively.

Certbot

• The certbot.sh script generates a new certificate or renews it using the webroot method, depending on the certonly and renew options.

Cron

Periodically runs:

• IPS Task
• Logrotate
• Certificate renewal
• Creating and sending backups

Logrotate

• By default, it retains 5 weeks of logs.

Mariadb 10.11

• The default innodb_buffer_pool_size is 512 MB.
• Scripts create-backup.sh and restore-backup.sh create and restore database backups, respectively.

PHP 8.1

• The image includes all extensions used by IPS.
• The default pm.max_children is 10.
• The default memory_limit is 256 MB, upload_max_filesize is 32 MB, and post_max_size is 64 MB.
• Default locales are defined in the locale.gen file (necessary for IPS translations).
• The ips-task.sh script retrieves the required key from the database and executes the IPS task.

Redis 6.2

• The default maximum memory usage is 128 MB.

Restic

• The publish-backup.sh and restore-latest-backups.sh scripts send and retrieve the latest backup files, respectively.
• To use a previous snapshot, you can use:

docker exec restic restic snapshots
docker exec restic restic restore <snapshot_id> --target / --include /var/backup/db/ips.sql
docker exec restic restic restore <snapshot_id> --target / --include /var/backup/www/ips.tar.gz

Maintenance

The update-stack.sh script rebuilds the stack using the latest versions of the base images.

Future Plans

• Configuration of a test instance
• Configuration of service monitoring on Grafana Cloud

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Feel free to contribute to the project by submitting issues or pull requests. Any suggestions for improvements are welcome.