Elgg docker compose Project

Auto install

This installs Elgg into a new composer project so that port 8080 serves just the contents of the services/starter/web directory. Composer's vendor is not public.

./auto-install.sh

Open http://localhost:8080/ and log in with admin / Adm1npwd

Manual install

docker compose up -d
docker compose exec starter composer install --ignore-platform-reqs

Browse to http://localhost:8080/install.php

Using composer / elgg-cli

docker compose exec starter composer <COMMAND>
docker compose exec starter composer show

docker compose exec starter vendor/elgg/elgg/elgg-cli <COMMAND>
docker compose exec starter vendor/elgg/elgg/elgg-cli plugins:list

Accessing elgg-data

# Data tree
docker compose exec -w /var/data/elgg-data starter tree

# Clear cache
docker compose exec -w /var/data/elgg-data starter rm -rf caches/*

# Browse
docker compose exec -w /var/data/elgg-data starter bash

Elgg/Elgg core install

This clones the Elgg repo into core/Elgg and installs it so the Elgg directory is the document root (/vendor is public, not recommended).

./core-install.sh

• http://localhost:8081/ - Elgg served by nginx

Using composer / elgg-cli and elgg-data

docker compose exec -w /var/www/html/Elgg core-nginx composer show

docker compose exec core-nginx php Elgg/elgg-cli plugins:list

# Data tree
docker compose exec -w /var/data/elgg-data core-nginx tree

# Clear cache
docker compose exec -w /var/data/elgg-data core-nginx rm -rf caches/*

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