• latest (Dockerfile)

• Multi-platform image: linux/386, linux/amd64, linux/arm/v6, linux/arm/v7, linux/arm64
• Lightweight & secure image
• Based on Alpine Linux 3.18
• nginx and PHP 8.2
• Latest Flarum Framework (v1.8.5)
• MySQL/Mariadb driver
• OPCache extension configured

• VERSION = Version of flarum/flarum skeleton (default: v1.8.5)

• Default: 8888 (configurable)

• /flarum/app/extensions : Flarum extension directory
• /flarum/app/public/assets : Flarum assets directory
• /flarum/app/storage/logs : Flarum logs directory
• /etc/nginx/flarum : Nginx location directory

# Pull from hub.docker.com :
docker pull ghcr.io/rikodev/flarum-docker:latest

# or build it manually :
docker build -t rikodev/flarum-docker:latest https://github.com/rikodev/flarum-docker.git

version: "3"

services:
  flarum:
    image: ghcr.io/rikodev/flarum-docker:latest
    container_name: flarum
    env_file:
      - /mnt/docker/flarum/flarum.env
    volumes:
      - /mnt/docker/flarum/assets:/flarum/app/public/assets
      - /mnt/docker/flarum/extensions:/flarum/app/extensions
      - /mnt/docker/flarum/storage/logs:/flarum/app/storage/logs
      - /mnt/docker/flarum/nginx:/etc/nginx/flarum
    ports:
      - 80:8888
    depends_on:
      - mariadb

  mariadb:
    image: mariadb:10.6
    container_name: mariadb
    environment:
      - MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=xxxxxxxxxx
      - MYSQL_DATABASE=flarum
      - MYSQL_USER=flarum
      - MYSQL_PASSWORD=xxxxxxxxxx
    volumes:
      - /mnt/docker/mysql/db:/var/lib/mysql

You need a reverse proxy to access flarum, this is not described here. You can use the solution of your choice (Traefik, Nginx, Apache, Haproxy, Caddy, H2O...etc).

Create a environment file (see docker-compose: /mnt/docker/flarum/flarum.env here)

# vi /mnt/docker/flarum/flarum.env

DEBUG=false
FORUM_URL=http://domain.tld

# Database configuration
DB_HOST=mariadb
DB_NAME=flarum
DB_USER=flarum
DB_PASS=xxxxxxxxxx
DB_PREF=flarum_
DB_PORT=3306

# User admin flarum (environment variable for first installation)
# /!\ admin password must contain at least 8 characters /!\
FLARUM_ADMIN_USER=admin
FLARUM_ADMIN_PASS=xxxxxxxxxx
FLARUM_ADMIN_MAIL=admin@domain.tld
FLARUM_TITLE=Test flarum

Run your docker-compose

docker-compose up -d mariadb
# Wait a moment for the creation of the database
docker-compose up -d flarum

• ⚠️ Your admin password must contain at least 8 characters (FLARUM_ADMIN_PASS).
• If you get an error 500 with Something went wrong message, switch the DEBUG environment variable to true to see the actual error message in your browser.

version: "3"

services:
  flarum:
    image: ghcr.io/rikodev/flarum-docker:latest
    container_name: flarum
    environment:
      - PHP_EXTENSIONS=gmp session brotli
    volumes:
      - /mnt/docker/flarum/assets:/flarum/app/public/assets
      - /mnt/docker/flarum/extensions:/flarum/app/extensions
      - /mnt/docker/flarum/storage/logs:/flarum/app/storage/logs
      - /mnt/docker/flarum/nginx:/etc/nginx/flarum

This example install php82-gmp php82-session and php82-brotli with apk
You can find a php extension here https://pkgs.alpinelinux.org/packages?name=php8-*&branch=v3.13&arch=x86_64

Flarum extensions list: https://extiverse.com/

docker exec -ti flarum extension require some/extension

docker exec -ti flarum extension remove some/extension

docker exec -ti flarum extension list

File to change the vhost flarum /etc/nginx/flarum/custom-vhost-flarum.conf
To use file custom-vhost-flarum.conf add volume /etc/nginx/flarum Create file in /mnt/docker/flarum/nginx/custom-vhost-flarum.conf

# Example of custom vhost flarum for nginx
# fix nginx issue for fof/sitemap (https://github.com/FriendsOfFlarum/sitemap)

location = /sitemap.xml {
  try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
}

To use the composer repository system, add your repo name and json representation in /mnt/docker/flarum/extensions/composer.repositories.txt:

my_private_repo|{"type":"path","url":"extensions/*/"}
my_public_repo|{"type":"vcs","url":"https://github.com/my/repo"}

Example for a private repository in github

Add this in /mnt/docker/flarum/extensions/composer.repositories.txt

username|{"type":"vcs","url":"https://github.com/username/my-private-repo"}

Create a token in github with full control of privates repository
https://github.com/settings/tokens

Add your github token in var environment

GITHUB_TOKEN_AUTH=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

Add your repo in the list file /mnt/docker/flarum/extensions/list

username/my-private-repo:0.1.0

https://getcomposer.org/doc/03-cli.md#modifying-repositories

See the instructions here

Docker image rikodev/flarum-docker is released under MIT License.

The embedded Flarum software is released under MIT License.