Help Installing with Docker - especially behind an nginx reverse proxy

[ardentmusician]

Can anyone assist with getting snipeit to install with Docker? The instructions on the snipe-it website are just wrong, none of the commands actually work, and I can't get snipeit it to connect.

I have reinstalled it several times, but I have managed to get it to respond exactly once - then it immediately redirected me to the FQDN and port, which did not work, since it is sending it back through the nginx proxy with the wrong port.

I have tried setting it up with completely different ports (80 is not available, so I have tried 8000 and 8118), and I just get 504 gateway timeout. I have tried setting the .env to use the internal DNS name of the server it is on, bypassing the reverse proxy, and I get "refused to connect". I have tried setting the .env to use the IP address, same issue. No matter what settings I use, I cannot connect to snipeit. So far, my entire experience with snipeit is nothing but days of frustration.

This is what the BASIC APP SETTINGS look like in the .env file:

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REQUIRED: DOCKER SPECIFIC SETTINGS

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APP_VERSION=
APP_PORT=8118

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REQUIRED: BASIC APP SETTINGS

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APP_ENV=production
APP_DEBUG=false

Please regenerate the APP_KEY value by calling docker compose run --rm app php artisan key:generate --show. Copy paste the value here

APP_KEY=
APP_URL=http://192.168.0.100:8118

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones - TZ identifier

APP_TIMEZONE='America/Los_Angeles'
APP_LOCALE=en-US
MAX_RESULTS=500

This is the docker-compose.yml file (I had to comment out the restart line, as it would not launch the container AT ALL if that line was there):

Compose file for production.

volumes:
db_data:
storage:

services:
app:
image: snipe/snipe-it:${APP_VERSION:-latest}
restart: unless-stopped
volumes:
- storage:/var/lib/snipeit
ports:
- "${APP_PORT:-8118}:80"
depends_on:
db:
condition: service_healthy

restart: true

env_file:
  - .env

db:
image: mariadb:11.4.7
restart: unless-stopped
volumes:
- db_data:/var/lib/mysql
environment:
MYSQL_DATABASE: ${DB_DATABASE}
MYSQL_USER: ${DB_USERNAME}
MYSQL_PASSWORD: ${DB_PASSWORD}
MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: ${MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD}
healthcheck:
# https://mariadb.com/kb/en/using-healthcheck-sh/#compose-file-example
test: ["CMD", "healthcheck.sh", "--connect", "--innodb_initialized"]
interval: 5s
timeout: 1s
retries: 5

Does anyone have any ideas?