Installation Guide:

Prerequisites:

• Docker https://docs.docker.com/desktop/

Step 1: Obtain an image

• Option 1: Download the image from the packages section of the About sidebar on the repository.
• Option 2: Create your own image
  • Download and extract the code.
  • Open a terminal or command prompt in the folder you've extracted the code to, and run the following command:
    • docker build -t "shooting-stars-server" .

Step 2: Create a volume

• A volume will serve as permanent storage where you will keep your database file. Docker instances are TEMPORARY meaning that whenever you shut down the program, it wipes all data you saved and starts from scratch when it starts up. Volumes will serve as our permanent storage that you can map to your docker instance. You can use the following command:
  • docker volume create database-volume

Step 3: Run your docker image

• On your terminal or command prompt, run the following:
  • docker run -p [your host computers port]:[port environment variable] --volume [your volume name]:[your database folder] shooting-stars-server
    • e.g. docker run -p 8080:80 --volume database-volume:/var/www/html/database shooting-stars-server
    • to pass environment variables, you need to use the "-e" flag BEFORE the name of the image for each of your variables you want to set followed by your variable names
      • e.g. docker run -p 8080:1234 --volume database-volume:/var/www/html/database -e PORT=1234 -e DATABASE=/database/database.db -e PASSWORD=TRUE shooting-stars-server
      • e.g. docker run -p 80:80 --volume database-volume:/var/www/html/database -e DATABASE=/home/username/database/mydata.db shooting-stars-server
• If you don't know what you want to use, I'd recommend the following:
  • docker run -p 80:80 --volume database-volume:/var/www/html/database shooting-stars-server

Routes

• Documented in the openapi.yaml file. Can be viewed at https://editor.swagger.io/

Environment Variables

PORT

• What port you want to use for your docker container. NOTE: Only exposes the port within your docker container's network.
• You will most likely not need to change this variable.
• Must use -p in your docker run command to map it to a port on your computer.
• Default: 80

DATABASE

• Full path to your sqlite database file. e.g /my/database/path/mydatabase.db. NOTE: unless you mount a drive to that file path, your database file will be wiped on program exit.
• Default: /var/www/html/database/main.db