MediaGoblin

A basic container for a MediaGoblin media server.

Environment variables

• DATABASE_URL: Connection string for database to use for persistence, including credentials. See example below.
• NOTIFICATION_EMAIL: From address for MediaGoblin notification emails.
• EMAIL_HOSTNAME: Hostname used to send outgoing notification emails.
• EMAIL_PORT: Port number used to send outgoing notification emails.
• EMAIL_USERNAME: Username used to connect to outgoing email host.
• EMAIL_PASSWORD: Password used to connect to outgoing email host.
• EMAIL_TLS_SSL: "true" or "false" for using TLS/SSL encryption for sending emails.
• EMAIL_STARTTLS: "true" or "false" for using STARTTLS encryption for sending emails.

Basic management

Set enviroment file

$ cp -v .env.example .env

Run with docker-compose

$ docker-compose up -d

User management

Since this image is for running a private MediaGoblin server, user self-registration is disabled. So, to add a user, first exec into the running Docker image:

$ docker exec -it mediagoblin bash

Where mediagoblin is the name of your running Docker container. If you don’t know the name to use, try looking in docker ps output.

Then, add a user (follow the prompts):

# su - mediagoblin
$ ./bin/gmg --conf_file /srv/app/mediagoblin_local.ini adduser

Finally, if you want to make the new user into an admin user:

$ ./bin/gmg --conf_file /srv/app/mediagoblin_local.ini makeadmin username

Where username corresponds to the user you added above.