Locating public application files (css/js) in a docker based server.

Posted on August 15, 2015

Hello, I have followed this tutorial: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-run-your-own-mail-server-and-file-storage-with-peps-on-ubuntu-14-04 and was able to install PEPS application on my server, but am having issues locating public application files like css/js used by the app.

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Andrew SB

June 20, 2016

To enter a running Docker container, you can use the attach command. E.g:

docker attach <container name or ID>

Though, that is mostly useful for debugging purposes. If you want to edit files directly, I’d suggest doing so before building the Docker images.

In the linked tutorial, you run the command make build. If you look at the actual Makefile in the project, you’ll see that it is building Docker images:

build: domain
	cd mongod; docker build $(DOCKER_BUILD_OPTS) -t mongod .
	cd opa; docker build $(DOCKER_BUILD_OPTS) -t opa .
	cd peps; docker build $(DOCKER_BUILD_OPTS) -t peps .
	cd solr; docker build $(DOCKER_BUILD_OPTS) -t solr .
	cp domain smtpin/
	cd smtpin; docker build $(DOCKER_BUILD_OPTS) -t smtpin .
	cp domain smtpout/
	cd smtpout; docker build $(DOCKER_BUILD_OPTS) -t smtpout .

The cleanest way to modify this would be to edit the Dockerfile that produces the PEPS image. From there you could add or replace the files as needed.

For more information on building Docker images, check check out: