Ok, using docker for windows - and now?

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Hi
as Alex told me strongly to use the docker Installation for 1.8.11 I tried this.
btw: I am a Windows user and have no idea of Linux.
I installed docker Toolbox (w7-PC) which went well after the third try. then I read the Manual for “Docker on Windows 64 bit, other than Windows 10” and I think I did all of the Topics.
This is my current Point of manual: “This will bootstrap and start your Xibo CMS”. ok, Installation seems to be ready, but nothing starts. the docker Container xibo_cms_web_1 says: Waiting for mysql to start - 300 sec. After this I get in my browser: Fatal Error - sorry this shouldn’t happen. SQLSTATE[HY000] [2002] php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: Try again when I try to start the cms admin.
Now I dont know what to do.

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Some installations of Docker on Windows have issues with the MySQL containers starting properly.

The resolution is as follows.

Down the existing containers (docker-compose down, adding -f as appropriate)
Delete the shared/db directory completely.

Edit the compose file you’re using and add

command: --innodb_use_native_aio=0

to the cms-db service definition.

Then bring the containers up per the guide.

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thats it, xibo works on docker…

I did a little manipulation in Port forwarding of the VM.now it looks like this: ("…" means empty field)

Name Protokol Host-IP Host-Port Guest-IP Guest-Port
XMR TCP … 9505 … 9505
http TCP … 80 192.168.99.100 80
ssh TCP 127.0.0.0 49478 … 22

my intension was to get http://localhost running on the host (where virtual box runs) and to reach xibo whithin my netword at http://192.168.2.249 (ip of the host)

both items work, but please have a look on this to be on the right way.

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The port forwarding rules look almost correct to me. You have the http rule bound to a guest IP, but you don’t need to do that.

They should be as show in the installation guide here:
https://xibo.org.uk/manual-tempel/en/install_docker_winother_64bit.html

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ok, let us say, it works……

now I wonder About a backup and restore possibiity for my CMS, as one part of it is within the VM/Container and the other part is within the Windows file System.

How to do?

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All your user content is inside the shared directory. That’s all you need to backup.

An automated daily backup is taken of the database and stored in shared/backup/db/latest.sql.gz

Nothing you need to backup is stored inside the container. You’d be wise to also backup your config.env and docker-compose *.yml files too for easier rollback, but it’s possible to restore without those.

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thank you, i will test it