Webserver does not seem to send data from docker container to host

[bensta]

I try to run wiki.js using docker compose on my macbook with an up to date MacOS Mojave

Actual behavior

• When I try to open the web interface of wiki.js using localhost:8080 within Firefox on the host, the browser is stuck loading forever, no data seams to come from the server.
• When I run wget localhost:8080 on the host, i get

  Resolving localhost (localhost)... ::1, 127.0.0.1
  Connecting to localhost (localhost)|::1|:8080... connected.
  HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
  Location: /login [following]
  --2019-02-12 18:37:05--  http://localhost:8080/login
  Connecting to localhost (localhost)|::1|:8080... connected.
  HTTP request sent, awaiting response... No data received.
  Retrying.

• When I run wget localhost:8080 within the docker container, i get

  index.html            99% |********************************************* |  2732   - stalled -

  However, index.html seems to be fetched from localhost anyway (despite the stall at the end)

  Expected behavior

  I expected to see the web interface of wiki.js

  Steps to reproduce the behavior

  Run docker-compose up using the following config files:

• docker compose file
• wiki.js config file --> for the port, i chose port 8080 everywhere (inside the container and outside) to avoid any confusions there.

Open a browser on the host and visit localhost:8080

It seems as if some sort of Firewall drops packages somewhere between host and docker image. My MacBook firewall is deactivated however.

Any help is appreciated!

[NGPixel]

• Have you tried on another port?
• Check the logs folder inside the container (/logs) for errors.

[bensta]

Just tried port 3000 everywhere, same result.

The logs: wiki-stderr.log Errors that are present:

• failed to connect to mongoDB the first time (seems to work later, see note below)
• failed to connect to remote git (expected, since I did not enter correct github credentials)

Note: The output from the mongoDB container shows active, accepted connections, so the mongoDB issue seems to be solved later in the startup process I guess (see line 37-41 in the output on pastebin)

wiki-stdout.log

• seems ok

[NGPixel]

While you might get active connections in MongoDB, it relies on a pool of connections. If some of them are failing, there's a good chance some pages will fail to load.

Try starting MongoDB as a separate container, wait for it to be fully started. Then start a separate container with Wiki.js pointing to that DB.

[bensta]

Thanks for your help!

I ran: First: docker run --name wikidb -d mongo Then: docker run -p 3000:3000 --name wikijs --link wikidb:wikijs -e "WIKI_ADMIN_EMAIL=admin@example.com" -v /Users/johndoe/wiki/dockerfile/config.yml:/var/wiki/config.yml requarks/wiki

it worked. I assume, that some sort of health check should be included in the docker compose file to check if mongoDB is ready, what is your take on this?

[NGPixel]

This is already the case in 2.0.