Is it possible to install Cockpit on Ubuntu without Docker?

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Hi all,

I’m pretty new to development in general, and would like some assistance. I’m trying to get Cockpit installed and running with MongoDB on a Linux machine. I tried with Docker initially but was lost when it came to modifying Dockerfiles and such to connect it to Mongo. Is there a way to install Cockpit without Docker and be able to view the config files in the GUI to adjust them to work with Mongo? or am I missing something with Docker that could make that method viable for me?

Thanks in advance.

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Hey @SlopezP, the docker is probably the most straightforward way to go… as it solves most of the issues of configuring servers, I use it always for development (and also for hosted websites), but if you prefer to go native… it should work as any other cms, you only need to have a webserver (e.g. nginx), php and mongodb.

The relevant part on mongo is the config/config.yaml on cockpit, you need something like:

database:
   server: mongodb://mongo-host:27017
   options:
       db: cockpitdb
       username: root
       password: root

assuming that you have mongo running and have a db and configured user and password!

You can have also a docker-compose.yml like below:

version: "2"

services:

  cockpit-cms-mongo:
    image: mongo
    environment:
        MONGO_INITDB_DATABASE: "cockpitdb"
        MONGO_INITDB_ROOT_USERNAME: root
        MONGO_INITDB_ROOT_PASSWORD: root
    ports:
    - "27017:27017"

  cockpit-cms-php:
    image: wodby/php:7.1
    environment:
      PHP_FPM_CLEAR_ENV: "no"
    volumes:
      - ./www:/var/www/html

  cockpit-cms-nginx:
    image: wodby/php-nginx:1.13
    depends_on:
      - cockpit-cms-php
    environment:
      NGINX_STATIC_CONTENT_OPEN_FILE_CACHE: "off"
      NGINX_ERROR_LOG_LEVEL: error
      NGINX_BACKEND_HOST: cockpit-cms-php
      NGINX_SERVER_ROOT: /var/www/html
    volumes:
      - ./www:/var/www/html
    ports:
      - '8000:80'
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Thanks for the reply!

If docker is the way to go, how do I get to the config.yaml file? Is I’m having trouble figuring out the steps needed to get there and edit it. DO I have to use terminal commands to get to it? Or is it able to be accessed in the GUI?

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I created manually the config.yaml inside config folder. When you have cockpit installed you can access that file from the ui in the settings page.

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