web interface broken after recreating the docker image

[stefan-sesser]

Hi, At the moment I am facing some issues after recreating the docker image (vers. 2.7.4). What I have done so far:

• Setting up a maria db docker container
• Setting up itop docker container
• Configuring itop over the web interface

Everything is working fine until I have stopped and removed the itop docker container.

After starting a new instance the web interface has some issues. I tried to reinstall itop with http://localhost/setup path. First attempt was to choose 'Upgrade an existing itop instance' to restore the data. Unfortunately this returned an error

Second attempt was to create a new instance. Also this one resulted in an error: Error: found iTop tables into the database 'itop'. Please, try selecting another database instance or specify a prefix to prevent conflicting table names.

The only way I can restore my data was to create a backup and restore it afterwards. To get itop running I had to remove the db and rerun maria db and itop containers

Is this the way to go? Thx

[Hipska]

Hi, this problem occurs because you didn't put the config file from previous install back. I usually mount the config file, but you can also replace it by doing docker cp config.php my-itop:/var/www/html/conf/production/config-itop.php.

[stefan-sesser]

Hi Hipska, Many thanks to your comment. That really helped me out. Just to clarify the problem - root cause of this issue is due to not persisting the state of my maria db. Creating a mount for this container solved it. BTW: After installing itop via the browser ui, the /var/www/html/conf/production/config-itop.php file is readonly! So copying the file from the old to the new container will not work out of the box ;) Thanks again