MantisBT - Unofficial Docker Container

Maintained by: FlyingFlip Studios, LLC
Official Page: MantisBT

Platforms: AMD/ARM

This is an unofficial docker container for the Mantis bugtracking system. It features persistent file systems and databases and examples of how it can be setup in a way where upgrades and tear downs are possible without losing data and maintaining security.

You can begin using the bugtracker using a small docker-compose.yml file. You can use any compatible database with MantisBT, but for this example and on my sites, I have elected to use MariaDB version 10.6 as it is the most stable as of this writing.

version: '3'
services:

  webapp:
    image: flyingflip/mantis:latest
    container_name: mantis
    ports:
      - 8111:80
    volumes:
      - ./mantis/config:/var/www/html/config
    networks:
      - mantis
    restart: unless-stopped

  datastore:
    image: mariadb:10.6
    container_name: mantisdb
    environment:
      MYSQL_USER: 'user'
      MYSQL_DATABASE: 'bugtracker'
      MYSQL_PASSWORD: 'strongpassword'
      MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: 'strongpassword'
      MYSQL_ALLOW_EMPTY_PASSWORD: 'no'
    expose:
      - "3306"
    volumes:
      - ./mantis/mariadb:/var/lib/mysql
    networks:
      mantis:
        aliases:
          - db
    restart: unless-stopped

networks:
  mantis:

Once you have this in place, you can issue the docker-compose up -d command to start up your container.

Setup

Run the setup scripts. If you change the MySQL passwords in the docker-compose file, be sure to use that password on the setup screen. Use root as the user for both the administrative MySQL user and regular one as well. Keep the database named bugtracker unless you set it up differently in docker-compose.yml, but I do not recommend doing that.

Once the self setup is complete and provided you have followed the example volume settings in the docker-compose.yml file, you will have a working MantisBT instance you can proxy to via Apache or Nginx on port 8111.

To persistently remove the /admin folder with every build, add the following lines to your config file:

if (file_exists('/var/www/html/web/admin')) {
  rrmdir('/var/www/html/web/admin');
}

function rrmdir($dir) {
   if (is_dir($dir)) {
     $objects = scandir($dir);
     foreach ($objects as $object) {
       if ($object != "." && $object != "..") {
         if (filetype($dir."/".$object) == "dir") rrmdir($dir."/".$object); else unlink($dir."/".$object);
       }
     }
     reset($objects);
     rmdir($dir);
  }
}