Docker for askbot supporting volume for persisted data, easily overridable settings, and custom python support
- Uses a /data docker volume for settings overriding and storing a sqlite data file
- Can easily customize install by overriding settings
Note
< 8F88 a id="user-content-note" class="anchor" aria-label="Permalink: Note" href="#note">This is an incomplete attempt to make the original https://github.com/berdon/docker-askbot work with a current OS, development branch 0.11 and python3
# Use jwilder/nginx-proxy for nginx
docker run -d -p 8080:80 --name nginx-proxy -p 4443:443 -v /var/run/docker.sock:/tmp/docker.sock -v /askbot/nginx/certs:/etc/nginx/certs -v /askbot/nginx/vhost.d:/etc/nginx/vhost.d -v /askbot/nginx/html:/usr/share/nginx/html -t jwilder/nginx-proxy
# Launch askbot
docker run -e VIRTUAL_HOST=www.my-sweet-askbot-site.com -v /askbot:/data/ -d berdon/docker-askbot:latestdocker run -p 80:1080 -v /askbot:/data/ -a stdout -a stderr -- askbot
Askbot relies heavily on settings.py for settings. You can override these settings in your /data volumes /data/override/settingsoverride.py file. This gets loaded at runtime and anything specified overrides the values in the default file.
Askbot uses Django so this is mostly just updating Django to use PostgreSQL.
Modify your /data volume's /data/override/settingsoverride.py with something like:
DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql_psycopg2',
'NAME': 'DATABASE',
'USER': 'USER',
'PASSWORD': 'PASSWORD',
'HOST': 'HOST',
'PORT': 'PORT',
}
}You may or may not have a lot of issues getting LDAP to work. Askbot themselves gives the guidance of "set up a debugger" and step through it. Ultimately, that's probably what you'll need to do.
Depending on your LDAP / AD settings, you may or may not need to have a master username or password. Security wise, that sucks since in many organizations it's brutally hard to get access to a user specifically meant to authenticate against an LDAP server just to then authenticate another user.
It may be worth your time to add a custom LDAP authentication function mirror Askbot's that treats the LDAP_LOGIN_DN and LDAP_PASSWORD settings as string templates like:
#add optional "master" LDAP authentication, if required
master_username = getattr(django_settings, 'LDAP_LOGIN_DN', None) % (username)
master_password = getattr(django_settings, 'LDAP_PASSWORD', None) % (password)See the original ldap_authenticate_default method in askbot/deps/django_authopenid to create your own function. Then include that function in the /data volume's /data/contrib/ and set your custom authentication function by overriding the LDAP_AUTHENTICATE_FUNCTION setting in /data/override/settingsoverride.py. As an example, if you have /data/contrib/my_ldap_module.py with your own version of ldap_authenticate_default then you would add the following to your setting override file:
LDAP_AUTHENTICATE_FUNCTION='my_ldap_module.ldap_authenticate_default'Try adding the below to your /data volume's /data/override/settingsoverride.py to get Askbot logs. Additionally, you can look in /data/logs/ for USWGI logs.
import logging
logging.basicConfig(
filename='/data/logs/askbot.log',
level=logging.DEBUG,
format='%(pathname)s TIME: %(asctime)s MSG: %(filename)s:%(funcName)s:%(lineno)d %(message)s',
)
LOGGING = {
'version': 1,
'disable_existing_loggers': False,
'handlers': {
'file': {
'class': 'logging.FileHandler',
'filename': '/data/logs/askbot.log',
},
},
'root': {
'handlers': ['file'],
'level': 'INFO',
},
}