dokku-gocounter

This repo contains Dockerfile and instructions for setup and running gocounter as a dokku app.

Assume all commands are run from the instance where dokku is running with exception of Create app (from local) code block.

If you don't want Postgres as database, you can ignore the steps, but note each time you deploy a new version, all data will be lost. I personally have a small Postgres instance running in AWS RDS for all my storage needs.

Setup postgres

psql '<connection string>'
CREATE DATABASE counter;
CREATE USER counter WITH PASSWORD '<password>';

Import schema to postgres

git clone -b release-1.3 https://github.com/zgoat/goatcounter.git
psql '<connection string>' -c '\i goatcounter/db/schema.pgsql'

Create app (from local)

git remote add dokku dokku@<dokku host>:<app name>

# this'll fail b/c $GOATCOUNTER_DB is not set, but it will still create the app
git push dokku master

Setup config

dokku config:set <app name>GOATCOUNTER_DB='<connection string>'
dokku ps:restart <app name>

Create domain

sudo docker exec <app name>.web.1 ./goatcounter create -domain <domain> -email <email> -password <password> -db '<connection string>'

Setup letencrypt (optional)

dokku plugin:install https://github.com/dokku/dokku-letsencrypt.git
dokku config:set --no-restart <app name> DOKKU_LETSENCRYPT_EMAIL=<email>
dokku lets encrypt <app name>

Visit in a browser you and it should all just work.

Checkout sent-hil.com to see it in action.

sent-hil / dokku-gocounter