Usage

To create the image mdelapenya/tomcat-mysql, execute the following command on the mdelapenya-docker-tomcat-mysql folder:

docker build -t mdelapenya/tomcat-mysql .

You can now push your new image to the registry:

docker push mdelapenya/tomcat-mysql

Running your tomcat-mysql docker image

Start your image binding the external ports 8080 and 3306 in all interfaces to your container:

docker run -d -p 8080:8080 -p 3306:3306 mdelapenya/tomcat-mysql

Test your deployment:

curl http://localhost:8080/

Tomcat 7.0.77's home page should appear.

Loading your custom Java application

Copy the WAR file representing your application to /opt/apache-tomcat-7.0.77/webapps/ folder:

FROM mdelapenya/tomcat-mysql:7.0.77
COPY yourapp.war /opt/apache-tomcat-7.0.77/webapps/yourapp.war

After that, build the new Dockerfile:

docker build -t username/my-tomcat-mysql-app .

And test it:

docker run -d -p 8080:80 -p 3306:3306 username/my-tomcat-mysql-app

Test your deployment:

curl http://localhost:8080/yourapp

That's it!

Connecting to the bundled MySQL server from within the container

The bundled MySQL server has a root user with no password for local connections. Simply connect from your Java code with this user (using sql2o library):

String jdbcUrl = "jdbc-url-connection";
String jdbcUser = "jdbc-user";
String jdbcPassword = "jdbc-password";

return new Sql2o(jdbcUrl, jdbcUser, jdbcPassword);

## Connecting to the bundled MySQL server from outside the container

The first time that you run the container, a new user admin with all privileges will be created in MySQL with a random password. To get the password, check the logs of the container by running:

docker logs $CONTAINER_ID

You will see an output like the following:

========================================================================
You can now connect to this MySQL Server using:

    mysql -uadmin -p47nnf4FweaKu -h<host> -P<port>

Please remember to change the above password as soon as possible!
MySQL user 'root' has no password but only allows local connections
========================================================================

In this case, 47nnf4FweaKu is the password allocated to the admin user.

You can then connect to MySQL:

mysql -uadmin -p47nnf4FweaKu

Remember that the root user does not allow connections from outside the container - you should use this admin user instead!

## Setting a specific password for the MySQL server admin account

If you want to use a preset password instead of a random generated one, you can set the environment variable MYSQL_PASS to your specific password when running the container:

docker run -d -p 80:80 -p 3306:3306 -e MYSQL_PASS="mypass" mdelapenya/liferay-portal-mysql

You can now test your new admin password:

mysql -uadmin -p"mypass"