Deploying a new instance

On dokku

dokku apps:create write
dokku storage:ensure-directory write
dokku storage:mount write /var/lib/dokku/data/storage/write:/data
dokku mariadb:create write_db
dokku mariadb:link write_db write
dokku builder-dockerfile:set write dockerfile-path Dockerfile.prod

On local machine

git clone git@github.com:writefreely/writefreely.git
cd writefreely
git remote add dokku dokku@vps:write
git push -u dokku master

This will fail because you need to run some more commands on dokku (see next section).

Back on dokku

dokku run write writefreely config start
dokku run write writefreely keys generate
dokku run write writefreely --init-db
dokku ports:set write http:80:8080
dokku letsencrypt:enable write

Edit the config.ini:

sudo vim /var/lib/dokku/data/storage/write/config.ini

Edit these parts of config.ini:

[database]  
type     = mysql  
filename =    
username = mariadb  
password = somesecretstring
database = write_db
host     = dokku-mariadb-write-db  
port     = 3306  
tls      = false

Migrating writefreely from one dokku server to another one

On the old server

dokku mariadb:export write > writefreely.dump
tar -cvf storage.tar.gz /var/lib/dokku/data/storage

On local machine

Download the dump

sftp user@oldvps
get writefreely.dump
get storage.tar.gz

Then exit sftp and copy the dump to the new server

scp writefreely.dump vps:/home/user/
scp storage.tar.gz vps:/home/user/

Dokku on the new server

dokku apps:create write

# Set up writefreely data
tar xfv storage.tar.gz
sudo cp -r storage/write /var/lib/dokku/data/storage/write
dokku storage:ensure-directory write
dokku storage:mount write /var/lib/dokku/data/storage/write:/data

# Set up writefreely db
dokku mariadb:create write_db
dokku mariadb:link write_db write
dokku mariadb:import write_db < writefreely.dump

# Set Dockerfile to the prod version in the writefreely repo
dokku builder-dockerfile:set write dockerfile-path Dockerfile.prod

Look at what the DATABASE_URL has been set to and get the db pass from there.

Modify the config.ini to use the new password:

[database]  
type     = mysql  
filename =    
username = mariadb  
password = somesecretstring
database = write_db
host     = dokku-mariadb-write-db  
port     = 3306  
tls      = false

On local machine

git clone git@github.com:writefreely/writefreely.git
cd writefreely
git remote add dokku dokku@vps:write
git push -u dokku master

Back on the dokku server

dokku ports:set write http:80:8080
dokku letsencrypt:enable write

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