What is wallabag?

wallabag is a self hostable application for saving web pages. Unlike other services, wallabag is free (as in freedom) and open source.

With this application you will not miss content anymore. Click, save, read it when you want. It saves the content you select so that you can read it when you have time.

How to use this image

Default login is wallabag:wallabag.

Environment variables

• -e MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=... (needed for the mariadb container to initialise and for the entrypoint in the wallabag container to create a database and user if its not there)
• -e POSTGRES_PASSWORD=... (needed for the posgres container to initialise and for the entrypoint in the wallabag container to create a database and user if not there)
• -e POSTGRES_USER=... (needed for the posgres container to initialise and for the entrypoint in the wallabag container to create a database and user if not there)
• -e SYMFONY__ENV__DATABASE_DRIVER=... (defaults to "pdo_sqlite", this sets the database driver to use)
• -e SYMFONY__ENV__DATABASE_HOST=... (defaults to "127.0.0.1", if use mysql this should be the name of the mariadb container)
• -e SYMFONY__ENV__DATABASE_PORT=... (port of the database host)
• -e SYMFONY__ENV__DATABASE_NAME=...(defaults to "symfony", this is the name of the database to use)
• -e SYMFONY__ENV__DATABASE_USER=... (defaults to "root", this is the name of the database user to use)
• -e SYMFONY__ENV__DATABASE_PASSWORD=... (defaults to "~", this is the password of the database user to use)
• -e SYMFONY__ENV__SECRET=... (defaults to "ovmpmAWXRCabNlMgzlzFXDYmCFfzGv")
• -e SYMFONY__ENV__MAILER_HOST=... defaults to "127.0.0.1", the SMTP host)
• -e SYMFONY__ENV__MAILER_USER=... (defaults to "~", the SMTP user)
• -e SYMFONY__ENV__MAILER_PASSWORD=...(defaults to "~", the SMTP password)
• -e SYMFONY__ENV__FROM_EMAIL=...(defaults to "[email protected]", the address wallabag uses for outgoing emails)

SQLite

The easiest way to start wallabag is to use the SQLite backend. You can spin that up with

$ docker run -p 80:80 wallabag/wallabag

and point your browser to http://localhost:80. For persistent storage you should start the container with a volume:

$ docker run -v /opt/wallabag:/var/www/wallabag/data -p 80:80 wallabag/wallabag

MariaDB / MySQL

For using MariaDB or MySQL you have to define some environment variables with the container. Example:

$ docker run --name wallabag-db -e "MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=my-secret-pw" -d mariadb
$ docker run --name wallabag --link wallabag-db:wallabag-db -e "MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=my-secret-pw" -e "SYMFONY__ENV__DATABASE_DRIVER=pdo_mysql" -e "SYMFONY__ENV__DATABASE_HOST=wallabag-db" -e "SYMFONY__ENV__DATABASE_PORT=3306" -e "SYMFONY__ENV__DATABASE_NAME=wallabag" -e "SYMFONY__ENV__DATABASE_USER=wallabag" -e "SYMFONY__ENV__DATABASE_PASSWORD=wallapass" -p 80:80 wallabag/wallabag

PostgreSQL

For using PostgreSQL you have to define some environment variables with the container. Example:

$ docker run --name wallabag-db -e "POSTGRES_PASSWORD=my-secret-pw" -e "POSTGRES_USER=my-super-user" -d postgres
$ docker run --name wallabag --link wallabag-db:wallabag-db -e "POSTGRES_PASSWORD=my-secret-pw" -e "POSTGRES_USER=my-super-user" -e "SYMFONY__ENV__DATABASE_DRIVER=pdo_pgsql" -e "SYMFONY__ENV__DATABASE_HOST=wallabag-db" -e "SYMFONY__ENV__DATABASE_PORT=5432" -e "SYMFONY__ENV__DATABASE_NAME=wallabag" -e "SYMFONY__ENV__DATABASE_USER=wallabag" -e "SYMFONY__ENV__DATABASE_PASSWORD=wallapass" -p 80:80 wallabag/wallabag

Redis

To use redis support a linked redis container with the name redis is needed.

$ docker run -p 6379:6379 redis:alpine redis
$ docker run -p 80:80 --link redis:redis wallabag/wallabag

DB migration

If there is a version upgrade that needs a database migration, you should start the container with the new image and run the migration command.

$ docker exec -t wallabag /var/www/wallabag/bin/console doctrine:migrations:migrate --env=prod --no-interaction

docker-compose

It's a good way to use docker-compose. Example:

version: '2'
services:
  wallabag:
    image: wallabag/wallabag
    environment:
      - MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=wallaroot
      - SYMFONY__ENV__DATABASE_DRIVER=pdo_mysql
      - SYMFONY__ENV__DATABASE_HOST=db
      - SYMFONY__ENV__DATABASE_PORT=3306
      - SYMFONY__ENV__DATABASE_NAME=wallabag
      - SYMFONY__ENV__DATABASE_USER=wallabag
      - SYMFONY__ENV__DATABASE_PASSWORD=wallapass
      - SYMFONY__ENV__MAILER_HOST=127.0.0.1
      - SYMFONY__ENV__MAILER_USER=~
      - SYMFONY__ENV__MAILER_PASSWORD=~
      - [email protected]
    ports:
      - "80"
  db:
    image: mariadb
    environment:
      - MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=wallaroot
    volumes:
      - /opt/wallabag:/var/lib/mysql
  redis:
    image: redis:alpine

Note that you must fill out the mail related variables according to your mail config.

nginx

I use nginx to make wallabag public available. This is a example how to use it:

server {
        listen 443;
        server_name wallabag.foo.bar;

	ssl on;
        ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/wallabag.foo.bar/fullchain.pem;
        ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/wallabag.foo.bar/privkey.pem;

	location / {
		proxy_pass http://wallabag;
		proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Host $server_name;
                proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto https;
                proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $remote_addr;
	}

}