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Just chiming in here, as I was having trouble setting up the mail variable, but figured out a bit more. As usual, the answer had been staring me in the face for the past hour!

The key line from the documentation is:

For nested config options, you'd need to separate them with two underscores:

A configuration that looks like:

"mail": { 
  "transport": "SMTP",
  "options": { 
      "service": "Mailgun",
      "auth": { 
          "user": "[email protected]",
          "pass": "doremiabc123"
      }
  }
} 

Should have 4 independent variables set. My corresponding kubernetes deployment config would look like:

        - name: mail__transport
          value: SMTP
        - name: mail__options__service
          value: Mailgun
        - name: mail__options__auth__user
          value: [email protected]
        - name: mail__options__auth__pass
          value: doremiabc123

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It's a bit odd, but it needs to be a lowercased environment variable, e.g. url rather than URL

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Yep, I just lost a few hours to the contentPath issue which was pretty frustrating.

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This is still true for the 1.x version of the container: there is no (elegant) way to mount the "config.production.json" file – which is needed to e.g. set the base URL.

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Here is the notes I added on in my Dockerfile. Once you get the pattern, you're good to go!

## Good to know: ENV GHOST_SOURCE /usr/src/ghost
## Good to know: ENV GHOST_CONTENT /var/lib/ghost
## Good to know: WORKDIR $GHOST_SOURCE
## root@ec780f67ae5a:/var/lib/ghost# 
##
## The Directory structure is NOT the same as the original ghost ...
## ... there is no content directory
## apps  config.js  data  images  storage   themes
## theme are here > /var/lib/ghost/themes
##                                      not in /var/lib/ghost/content/themes

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@nicokaiser not true 😉 with ghost 1.0 comes the ability to configure your instance via environment variables - this is the intended way of doing things with ghost 1.x in Docker. See the docs for more information.

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@acburdine That sounds great, did not know about this!

However, it does not work. I set the "URL" environment, yet it is ignored (same if I manually run "URL=... node current/index.js" in the container). Am I missing something?

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Awesome, that works! Thank you @acburdine!

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Please consider mentioning this (the option to set configuration options via the environment variables) in the Readme for the image. Many people are likely to bump into this. Thanks.

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The docs don't specify how to configure mail settings via env.

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👍 for the official ghost doc a bit lacking about mail (like gmail or custom mail). And docker's README.md missing a hints for this kind of configuration.

@justinoverton I'm was able to turn privacy on via privacy='"privacy": {"useTinfoil": true}'. I guess you can put a flat json following https://docs.ghost.org/docs/mail-config for mail config

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It's a bit odd, but it needs to be a lowercased environment variable, e.g. url rather than URL

@acburdine I used the official ghost:1.7.0-alpine image, and I tried to start a container with

docker run --rm -it \
 -p 2368:2368 \
 -e url="https://MY_URL" \
 -v /mnt/docker/ghost:/var/lib/ghost/content \
 ghost:1.7.0-alpine

If I curl https://MY_URL, it responds with a redirect to localhost:2368.

Is the env variable working only if you built the image from this dockerfile? (It would be nonsense, as I assume that the official image is the result of building this dockerfile).

It would also be nonsense having to build a dockerfile just to change this settings.

Is there something I'm missing?

Do you need to set the entrypoint/cmd manually when starting the container?

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@dexafree : url env worked with ghost:latest for me

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@dexafree Indeed, your issue is that you provided the url between double quotes. There shouldn't be any.

I'm running
docker run -e url=http://eclats-de-voix.fr/ -d --name blog.eclats-de-voix-2 -p 3003:2368 -v /var/www/blog.eclats-de-voix:/var/lib/ghost/content ghost:1.12.1-alpine
and it works fine. I tried first with your example (with double quotes) and it failed. ;)

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