HumHub

With the current state of social media, I have, more than once, thought to myself, "I should just host my own social media platform for me and my friends to use." That's what we're going to take a look at in this post! 

I set up a Docker Linode with a Shared CPU/2GB RAM configuration.

While the Linode was deploying I made sure that I had a domain available on Linode for this project.

After the Linode deployed, I pointed the domain to the Linode.

Once that was done, I SSHed into my Linode and created some folders and then a docker-compose.yml file.

To avoid issues duing the setup process, you'll want to create the following file structure:

I placed the following docker-compose.yml file in /home/docker and then ran docker-compose up -d to spin up the containers.

version: '3'

networks:
  nginx_proxy_manager:

services:
  nginxproxymanager:
    image: 'jc21/nginx-proxy-manager:latest'
    restart: unless-stopped
    container_name: nginx-proxy-manager
    ports:
      - '80:80'
      - '81:81'
      - '443:443'
    volumes:
      - /home/docker/nginxproxymanager/data:/data
      - /home/docker/nginxproxymanager/letsencrypt:/etc/letsencrypt
    networks:
      nginx_proxy_manager:

  portainer-ce:
    ports:
      - '9000:9000'
      - '8000:8000'
    container_name: portainer
    restart: always
    volumes:
      - '/var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock'
      - 'portainer_data:/data'
    image: 'portainer/portainer-ce:latest'
    networks:
      nginx_proxy_manager:

  db:
    image: mariadb:10.2
    container_name: humhubdb
    environment:
      MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: root
      MYSQL_DATABASE: humhub
      MYSQL_USER: humhub
      MYSQL_PASSWORD: humhub
    volumes:
      - humhubdb:/var/lib/mysql
    networks:
      nginx_proxy_manager:

  humhub:
    image: mriedmann/humhub:latest
    container_name: humhub
    links:
      - db:db
    ports:
      - 8080:80
    volumes:
      - /home/docker/humhub/config:/var/www/localhost/htdocs/protected/config
      - /home/docker/humhub/uploads:/var/www/localhost/htdocs/uploads
      - /home/docker/humhub/modules:/var/www/localhost/htdocs/protected/modules
    environment:
      HUMHUB_DB_USER: humhub
      HUMHUB_DB_PASSWORD: humhub
    networks:
      nginx_proxy_manager:

volumes:
  humhubdb:
  portainer_data:

After everything has deployed, I went to http://my.linode.ip.address:81 and logged into Nginx Proxy Manager (admin@example.com/changeme) and created an SSL for the domain name.

Next, I headed over to http://my.linode.ip.address:9000, created a user, and logged into Portainer.

Then I found the container IP address for the humhub container and headed back over to Nginx Proxy Manager and created a Proxy Host with the the domain I setup in Linode and the IP address I found in Portainer.

I selected the SSL that we created earlier and deployed the Proxy Host.

I was then able to go to my domain name and go through the set up process of HumHub to configure the database and other settings/features of the install.

That's really just about all there was to it!