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Basic Usage

After you've finished installing Islandora using ISLE, here's some useful information to keep close at hand about running your site.

Important Files

The make commands that you used to install Islandora will leave you with two very important files.

File Purpose
.env A configuration file that is yours to customize. This file controls how the docker-compose.yml file gets generated to meet your use case.
It also allows you to set variables that make their way into the final docker-compose.yml file, such as your site's domain.
docker-compose.yml A ready to run docker-compose.yml file based on your .env file. This file is considered disposable. When you change your .env file, you will generate a new one.

Available Services

Here's a list of all the available services. Note that there are some services over http and not https. Those aren't meant to be exposed to the public, but internally people from your organization will want to access them. In practice, you can restrict access to these services using firewall rules to just those who you trust.

Service Url
Drupal https://islandora.traefik.me
Traefik http://islandora.traefik.me:8080
Fedora http://islandora.traefik.me:8081/fcrepo/rest
Blazegraph http://islandora.traefik.me:8082/bigdata
Activemq http://islandora.traefik.me:8161
Solr http://islandora.traefik.me:8983
Cantaloupe https://islandora.traefik.me/cantaloupe
Matomo https://islandora.traefik.me/matomo/
Code Server http://islandora.traefik.me:8443/

Basic Commands

Stopping Islandora

If you want to stop Islandora, you can bring down all the containers with

docker-compose down

Restarting Islandora

If you want to start Islandora back up after stopping it, use

docker-compose up -d

Deleting Islandora

If you want to stop Islandora and delete all of its content, use

docker-compose down -v

Regenerating docker-compose.yml

If you make changes to configuration in the .env file, you may need to regenerate your docker-compose.yml file so that those changes take effect.

make -B docker-compose.yml

Once you have a new docker-compose.yml file, you'll need to restart your containers that have had configuration change. You can do this easily with

docker-compose up -d

Even if the site is up and running, that command will only restart the containers it needs to.

Listing services

You can see a list of all the containers that you have running and their statuses by running

docker ps -a

Tailing Logs

You can tail logs using

docker-compose logs service_name

For example, to tail nginx logs for Drupal, use docker-compose logs drupal.

If you don't know what you're looking for exactly, you can turn on the fire hose and look through all logs by dropping the service name and simply using

docker-compose logs


Last update: March 15, 2024