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Koillection Koillection

Stack

Tools

Koillection is a self-hosted collection manager created to keep track of physical (mostly) collections of any kind like books, DVDs, stamps, games..

Configuration

Type
Compose
Platform
linux
Env vars
PUID=1000PGID=1000PORT=''
Source
Repo

Template by xneo1·Source

Services

koillection

Configuration

Image
koillection/koillection:dev
Ports
181:80
Volumes
/var/www/koillection/public/uploads : /portainer/Files/AppData/Config/koillection/public/uploads/var/www/koillection : /portainer/Files/AppData/Config/koillection
Env vars
APP_ENV=devAPP_DEBUG=1DB_DRIVER=pdo_pgsqlDB_NAME=koillectionDB_HOST=postgresqlDB_PORT=25432DB_USER=postgresDB_PASSWORD=passwordDB_VERSION=14PHP_TZ=Europe/AthensHTTPS_ENABLED=0
Restart
always

Image details

Pulls: 583k
User: koillection
Created: Oct 12, 2020
Updated: 1 month ago
Status: active

postgresql

Configuration

Image
postgres:14
Ports
25432:5432
Volumes
/var/lib/postgresql/data : /portainer/Files/AppData/Config/postgresql
Env vars
POSTGRES_DB=koillectionPOSTGRES_USER=postgresPOSTGRES_PASSWORD=passwordPOSTGRES_HOST_AUTH_METHOD=trust

Image details

Pulls: 11.2B
User: stackbrew
Created: Jun 05, 2014
Updated: 3 hours ago
Status: active

koinmysql

Configuration

Image
mysql:latest
Command
--default-authentication-plugin=mysql_native_password
Ports
43306:3306
Volumes
/var/lib/mysql : /portainer/Files/AppData/Config/koillection/koinmysql
Env vars
MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=passwordMYSQL_DATABASE=koillection

Image details

Pulls: 5.1B
User: stackbrew
Created: Jun 05, 2014
Updated: 19 days ago
Status: active

Standalone Install

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

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 Koillection, fill in any config options, and hit Deploy

Template Import URL

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Lissy93/portainer-templates/main/templates.json
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Original stackfile

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

services:
    #FPM image
    koillection:
        container_name: koillection
        image: koillection/koillection:dev
        restart: always
        ports:
            - 181:80
        environment:
            - APP_ENV=dev
            - APP_DEBUG=1
            - DB_DRIVER=pdo_pgsql
            - DB_NAME=koillection
            - DB_HOST=postgresql
            - DB_PORT=25432
            - DB_USER=postgres
            - DB_PASSWORD=password
            - DB_VERSION=14
            - PHP_TZ=Europe/Athens
            - HTTPS_ENABLED=0
        depends_on:
            - koinmysql
            - postgresql
        volumes:
            - /portainer/Files/AppData/Config/koillection/public/uploads:/var/www/koillection/public/uploads
            - /portainer/Files/AppData/Config/koillection:/var/www/koillection

    postgresql:
        container_name: postgresql
        image: postgres:14
        environment:
            - POSTGRES_DB=koillection
            - POSTGRES_USER=postgres
            - POSTGRES_PASSWORD=password
            - POSTGRES_HOST_AUTH_METHOD=trust
        ports:
            - 25432:5432
        volumes:
            - /portainer/Files/AppData/Config/postgresql:/var/lib/postgresql/data

    koinmysql:
        container_name: mysql
        image: mysql:latest
        command: --default-authentication-plugin=mysql_native_password
        environment:
            - MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=password
            - MYSQL_DATABASE=koillection
        ports:
            - 43306:3306
        volumes:
            - /portainer/Files/AppData/Config/koillection/koinmysql:/var/lib/mysql

Or deploy it directly from the source:

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

More install options in our documentation.

Container Documentation

koillection Documentation

Koillection is a self-hosted service allowing users to manage any kind of collections.

postgresql Documentation

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

koinmysql Documentation

MySQL is a widely used, open-source relational database management system (RDBMS).

Serve Koillection 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 koillection.example.com to http://koillection:80

Add this to your Caddyfile

koillection.example.com {
	reverse_proxy http://koillection:80
}

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 0.0.0.0:181 failed: port is already allocated", something else on your server is using that port.

  • Find what's using it: sudo ss -tlnp | grep :181
  • Stop the other service, or pick a different host port. In 181:80 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:181. The 0.0.0.0 link Portainer shows isn't a real address.
  • Give it a minute after first deploy, Koillection can take a while to initialise.
  • Make sure your firewall allows the port, e.g. sudo ufw allow 181

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/koillection/public/uploads (and the same for the other mapped folders)

Image won't pull

Test the pull directly on the host: docker pull koillection/koillection:dev

  • "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

Koillection is a Compose stack, a set of containers (3 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 3 containers that run side by side. Here's each one, with the image it runs and anything it waits for first:

  • koillection runs koillection/koillection:dev, starts after koinmysql, postgresql
  • postgresql runs postgres:14
  • koinmysql runs mysql:latest

Ports

A port is the door the app answers on. A mapping like 181:80 means it's reachable on port 181 of your server, where the left number is yours to change and the right one belongs to the app. Once it's running, open http://your-server-ip:181 in a browser. It opens:

  • 181:80, likely the web interface
  • 25432:5432
  • 43306:3306

Volumes

A volume is where Koillection 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/www/koillection/public/uploads from /portainer/Files/AppData/Config/koillection/public/uploads on the host
  • /var/www/koillection from /portainer/Files/AppData/Config/koillection on the host
  • /var/lib/postgresql/data from /portainer/Files/AppData/Config/postgresql on the host
  • /var/lib/mysql from /portainer/Files/AppData/Config/koillection/koinmysql on the host

Environment variables

Environment variables are the settings you hand over when you deploy, things like a password or a timezone. Koillection takes 17 of them, all with defaults you can leave alone or tweak:

  • APP_ENV, defaults to dev
  • APP_DEBUG, defaults to 1
  • DB_DRIVER, defaults to pdo_pgsql
  • DB_NAME, defaults to koillection
  • DB_HOST, defaults to postgresql
  • DB_PORT, defaults to 25432
  • DB_USER, defaults to postgres
  • DB_PASSWORD, defaults to password
  • DB_VERSION, defaults to 14
  • PHP_TZ, defaults to Europe/Athens
  • HTTPS_ENABLED, defaults to 0
  • POSTGRES_DB, defaults to koillection
  • POSTGRES_USER, defaults to postgres
  • POSTGRES_PASSWORD, defaults to password
  • POSTGRES_HOST_AUTH_METHOD, defaults to trust
  • MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD, defaults to password
  • MYSQL_DATABASE, defaults to koillection

Restart policy

The restart policy here is always, so Docker brings Koillection 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 koillection) 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 Koillection up. Add the template list to Portainer once, then deploying Koillection is a click rather than a wall of config.