When I was creating the FeedLand Docker Compose file, I was thinking of it running on a VPS with a public hostname. There was another use case I was not thinking about: running on a local machine in a private network, without any hostname in DNS. This would be pretty common for someone just wanting to run FeedLand for themselves on their own laptop, without wanting to set up any SSL or proxy.

For this case I've added an option to run FeedLand as localhost. When the initial script is called as `./scripts/generate-env.sh –http-localhost`, the URL of FeedLand is set to http://localhost:1452, and the Caddy web proxy is not started.

I've also added a script to easily determine the confirmation URL for a new user when email has not been configured.

Thanks to John Johnston and Frank McPherson for suggesting and testing the localhost installation. This should make it even easier to explore FeedLand.

Next I intend to explore other possibilities for using the FeedLand Docker image, for example with the Synology Container Manager or with Coolify.

I have just released a Docker compose file for FeedLand for public testing. It contains a compose file some supporting scripts to quickly install an instance FeedLand together with MySQL as Docker containers. It will optionally start a Caddy proxy to enable HTTPS.  

I've been testing this out on the command line of a Linux VPS. You need to have Docker installed, of course. It makes things easier if you can run Docker as a normal user instead of root. 

Once you've downloaded the repo from GitHub, there are basically two steps.

• Create or generate a .env file with you FeedLand hostname and the passwords for MySQL
• Run `docker compose up -d` to create and run the containers

That's it. A config.json file is created that can be edited to add features and change settings. 

Running notes will be posted to https://scott.this.how/feedlandDockerCompose.opml

This is completely inspired by Chuck Shotten's Dockerfile for FeedLand from his feedlandInstall repo. I've published a FeedLand Docker image at Docker Hub (generated by a GitHub action whenever FeedLand itself is updated).

Please feel free to try this out and let me know in the issues if the instructions are unclear or if it doesn't work as expected. 😃