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WikiKnowledge Base

Documize Community is an open source, modern, self-hosted, enterprise-grade knowledge management solution.

Configuration

Type
Compose
Platform
linux
Source
Repo

Template by xneo1·Source

Services

documize-db

Configuration

Image
postgres:12
Ports
5432:5432
Volumes
/var/lib/postgresql/data : /portainer/Files/AppData/Config/documize/db-data
Env vars
POSTGRES_USER=documizePOSTGRES_PASSWORD=hsk3Acndky8cdTNx3POSTGRES_DB=documize
Restart
always

Image details

Pulls: 11.2B
User: stackbrew
Created: Jun 05, 2014
Updated: 38 minutes ago
Status: active

documize-app

Configuration

Image
debian:latest
Command
/bin/sh -c "apt-get -qq update && apt-get -qq install -y wget && wget https://community-downloads.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/documize-community-plus-linux-amd64 && chmod 777 ./documize-community-plus-linux-amd64 && ./documize-community-plus-linux-amd64"
Ports
5001:5001
Env vars
DOCUMIZEPORT=5001DOCUMIZEDB=host=db port=5432 dbname=documize user=documize password=Passw0rd sslmode=disableDOCUMIZEDBTYPE=postgresqlDOCUMIZESALT=hsk3Acndky8cdTNx3DOCUMIZELOCATION=selfhost

Image details

Pulls: 1.7B
User: stackbrew
Created: Jan 03, 2014
Updated: 4 days ago
Status: active

Standalone Install

Select an install method, to see config/commands for deploying Documize

Installation method

Install on Portainer

Import all app templates into your Portainer instance, for easy 1-click deploys

  1. Ensure both Docker and Portainer are installed, and up-to-date
  2. Log into your Portainer web UI
  3. Under Settings → App Templates, paste the below URL
  4. Head to Home → App Templates, and the list of apps will show up
  5. Select Documize, fill in any config options, and hit Deploy

Template Import URL

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Original stackfile

The compose file this template deploys, straight from its repo:

services:
  documize-db:
    image: postgres:12
    restart: always
    ports:
      - 5432:5432
    environment:
      POSTGRES_USER: documize
      POSTGRES_PASSWORD: hsk3Acndky8cdTNx3
      POSTGRES_DB: documize
    volumes:
       - /portainer/Files/AppData/Config/documize/db-data:/var/lib/postgresql/data
    networks:
       - documizenet

  documize-app:
    image: debian:latest
    command: /bin/sh -c "apt-get -qq update && apt-get -qq install -y wget && wget https://community-downloads.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/documize-community-plus-linux-amd64 && chmod 777 ./documize-community-plus-linux-amd64 && ./documize-community-plus-linux-amd64"
    depends_on:
      - documize-db
    ports:
      - 5001:5001
    environment:
      DOCUMIZEPORT: 5001
      DOCUMIZEDB: host=db port=5432 dbname=documize user=documize password=Passw0rd sslmode=disable
      DOCUMIZEDBTYPE: postgresql
      DOCUMIZESALT: hsk3Acndky8cdTNx3
      DOCUMIZELOCATION: selfhost
    networks:
      - documizenet

networks:
  documizenet:

Or deploy it directly from the source:

git clone https://github.com/xneo1/portainer_templates
cd portainer_templates
docker compose -f Template/Stack/documize.yml up -d

More install options in our documentation.

Container Documentation

documize-db Documentation

The PostgreSQL object-relational database system provides reliability and data integrity.

documize-app Documentation

Debian is a Linux distribution that's composed entirely of free and open-source software.

Serve Documize on your own domain behind Caddy, Nginx or Traefik. Fill in your domain and copy the result. It's a starting point, some apps need their own base URL or extra headers set too.

Proxying documize.example.com to http://documize-db:5432

Add this to your Caddyfile

documize.example.com {
	reverse_proxy http://documize-db:5432
}

Check the logs first

Nine times out of ten the logs tell you exactly what went wrong.

  • In Portainer, go to Containers, click the container, then Logs. Or run docker logs <container>
  • Exit codes help too: 137 means killed, usually out of memory. 126 or 127 means the command inside the image is broken.

Port already in use

If deployment fails with "Bind for 0.0.0.0:5432 failed: port is already allocated", something else on your server is using that port.

  • Find what's using it: sudo ss -tlnp | grep :5432
  • Stop the other service, or pick a different host port. In 5432:5432 only the left number is yours to change, the right one belongs to the app.

Running but the page won't load

The container is up but nothing appears in your browser.

  • Use your server's real IP: http://your-server-ip:5432. The 0.0.0.0 link Portainer shows isn't a real address.
  • Give it a minute after first deploy, documize can take a while to initialise.
  • Make sure your firewall allows the port, e.g. sudo ufw allow 5432

Permission denied on volumes

If the logs show "permission denied", the app can't write to its data folder on the host.

  • Fix the ownership: sudo chown -R 1000:1000 /portainer/Files/AppData/Config/documize/db-data

Image won't pull

Test the pull directly on the host: docker pull postgres:12

  • "manifest unknown" means the tag no longer exists.
  • "toomanyrequests" is the Docker Hub rate limit. Log in with docker login to raise it.
  • "no space left on device" means a full disk. Reclaim space with docker system prune

"exec format error"

This means the image was built for a different CPU architecture than your server.

  • Check yours with uname -m: x86_64 is amd64, aarch64 is arm64. Raspberry Pi and other ARM boards are the usual culprits.

Container keeps restarting

The always restart policy relaunches the app after every crash, so the real error can scroll past.

  • Check the logs right after a restart, the last few lines before it died are the useful ones.
  • Get the exit code with docker inspect <container> --format '{{.State.ExitCode}}'
  • Still stuck? Redeploy once with the restart policy set to no so the failure stays visible.

Stack won't deploy

Compose stacks fail fast on small mistakes, and Portainer shows the reason just above the editor.

  • YAML only accepts spaces for indentation, a single tab breaks the whole file.

Raise an issue

Found something which isn't working as it should? Here's how to report it.

A Compose stack

Documize is a Compose stack, a set of containers (2 of them) defined in one file and brought up together by Portainer, then started and stopped as a single app.

The services

This stack is built from 2 containers that run side by side. Here's each one, with the image it runs and anything it waits for first:

  • documize-db runs postgres:12
  • documize-app runs debian:latest, starts after documize-db

Ports

A port is the door the app answers on. A mapping like 5432:5432 means it's reachable on port 5432 of your server, where the left number is yours to change and the right one belongs to the app. It opens:

  • 5432:5432
  • 5001:5001

Volumes

A volume is where Documize keeps its files so they survive an update or a restart. Without one, anything it saves would sit inside the container and vanish the moment it's recreated. This template mounts:

  • /var/lib/postgresql/data from /portainer/Files/AppData/Config/documize/db-data on the host

Environment variables

Environment variables are the settings you hand over when you deploy, things like a password or a timezone. Documize takes 8 of them, all with defaults you can leave alone or tweak:

  • POSTGRES_USER, defaults to documize
  • POSTGRES_PASSWORD, defaults to hsk3Acndky8cdTNx3
  • POSTGRES_DB, defaults to documize
  • DOCUMIZEPORT, defaults to 5001
  • DOCUMIZEDB, defaults to host=db port=5432 dbname=documize user=documize password=Passw0rd sslmode=disable
  • DOCUMIZEDBTYPE, defaults to postgresql
  • DOCUMIZESALT, defaults to hsk3Acndky8cdTNx3
  • DOCUMIZELOCATION, defaults to selfhost

Restart policy

The restart policy here is always, so Docker brings Documize back up after a crash and again when the server reboots. Good for anything you want running around the clock. You can change this on the deploy screen. The choices are no (never restart), on-failure (only after a crash), unless-stopped (restart unless you stop it), and always (bring it back no matter what).

Networking

Portainer puts these services on one shared private network, so they can find each other by name (like documize-db) while only the ports above are open to you.

Platform

The platform is linux, the kind of system the container is built to run on. Docker and Portainer handle this on a normal Linux server.

Portainer app templates

Zooming out, this whole page comes from a Portainer app template: a short recipe telling Portainer how to set Documize up. Add the template list to Portainer once, then deploying Documize is a click rather than a wall of config.