openaccounting-docker

Docker files to easily run OpenAccounting locally.

OpenAccounting needs three components to run:

• oa-server: an API server (written in Go)
• oa-web: a web interface (written in Angular)
• A mysql database

I personally like to run my software inside Docker containers. This repo contains a docker-compose.yml file which will bring up 4 containers:

1. a maria/mysql database on an internal network.
2. git clone the latest version of oa-server, build it, and run it on the internal network.
3. git clone the latest version of oa-web, patch it, build it, and run it on the internal network.
4. run two socats to forward port 8080 to oa-server and port 4200 to oa-web.

You can adjust the docker-compose.yml file if you want different ports.

To run things, simply do:

$ docker-compose build
$ docker-compose up

You can then connect to http://localhost:4200. You'll have to set the server to http://localhost:8080. You can then create your first user. You'll need to manually mark the email as verified:

docker exec -it openaccounting-mysql mariadb -u root -psecret -h localhost --protocol tcp openaccounting -e 'update user set emailVerified=1';

Notes

• The oa-web patch tells the web frontend to connect to localhost using ws:// instead of wss:// since localhost isn't using TLS.
• The oa-web code runs in development mode. Perhaps the default should be to include the -prod flag.
• This repo contains a concatenation of schema.sql and indexes.sql which needs to be kept in sync.
• If you don't want to bother running the software on your own hardware, you can sign up for a cloud-based account.