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WARNING:

Commento is discontinued and not getting updates anymore. I recommend switching to Comentario, a fork of Commento that I'm actively developing.

Auto-deployable Commento server

This is a sample repository containing a self-sufficient Commento instance running on Docker Compose and using free auto-renewable SSL/TLS certificates provided by Let's Encrypt.

💡 Curious about how this works? Read a detailed explanation here.

Using this as a starting point, you can set up a self-hosted Commento instance in a matter of minutes.

Prerequisites

  1. You own a domain and a Linux server
  2. You have root shell access to the server

Step-by-step instructions

  1. Install Docker and docker-compose
  2. Clone the project code to /opt/commento, for example:
    sudo git clone https://github.com/yktoo/commento-docker-compose.git /opt/commento
  3. Edit /opt/commento/docker-compose.yml and update the environment variable values appropriately
  4. Recommended: pre-build and pre-pull the required images:
    cd /opt/commento
    docker-compose -p commento pull
    docker-compose -p commento build
  5. Create systemd service symlink, reload the daemon, enable and start the service:
    sudo ln -s /opt/commento/etc/commento.service /etc/systemd/system/commento.service
    sudo systemctl daemon-reload
    sudo systemctl enable commento.service
    sudo systemctl start commento.service
  6. Check the service health with systemctl status commento.service
  7. Recommended: check in your changes to a new git repository for future use

Cleaning up

To stop and clean containers up manually (comments and SSL/TLD certificates are always retained):

cd /opt/commento
docker-compose -p commento down -v

Upgrading

To rebuild the Docker images, for example if you want to upgrade to a newer version of Commento/PostgreSQL/Nginx:

cd /opt/commento
docker-compose -p commento pull
docker-compose -p commento build
# Restart the service
sudo systemctl restart commento.service

Backing up

To back up the database, the easiest way is to make a dump of the commento database.

First, set up a passwordless login to your server using public key authentication.

Then you can export the entire commento database using the command:

ssh YOUR_SERVER_HOST docker exec -t commento_postgres_1 pg_dump -U postgres -d commento > /path/to/dump.sql

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