Supported tags and respective Dockerfile links

• latest, 1.8, 1.8.30 (Dockerfile)

Quick reference

• Where to get help: the MyBB Community Forums

• Where to file issues: https://github.com/mybb/docker/issues

• Maintained by: the MyBB Team

What is MyBB?

MyBB is the free and open source, intuitive, extensible, and incredibly powerful forum software you've been looking for. With everything from forums to threads, posts to private messages, search to profiles, and reputation to warnings, MyBB features everything you need to run an efficient and captivating community. Through plugins and themes, you can extend MyBB's functionality to build your community exactly as you'd like it. Learn more at MyBB.com.

wikipedia.org/wiki/MyBB

How to use this image

... via docker stack deploy or docker-compose

Example stack.yml for mybb:

services:
  mybb:
    image: mybb/mybb:latest
    volumes:
    - ${PWD}/mybb:/var/www/html:rw

  nginx:
    image: nginx:mainline-alpine
    ports:
    - published: 8080
      target: 80
    volumes:
    - ${PWD}/nginx:/etc/nginx/conf.d:ro
    - ${PWD}/mybb:/var/www/html:ro

  postgresql:
    environment:
      POSTGRES_DB: mybb
      POSTGRES_PASSWORD: changeme
      POSTGRES_USER: mybb
    image: postgres:14-alpine
    volumes:
    - ${PWD}/postgres/data:/var/lib/postgresql/data:rw

version: '3.8'

Note, you'll also need a virtual host configuration file for the provided nginx container. You can find a very basic example here. Create this file as nginx/default.conf, respective to the location of your docker-compose.yml file.

You should note that static content such as images and JavaScript or CSS files must be cross-mounted between the mybb and nginx containers - as PHP-FPM is not capable of serving those natively.

Preserving existing files

If you wish to run this image and preserve any updated lang or config files, you can add the following flag:

docker run mybb/mybb --skip-old-files php-fpm

or, within your compose file, specify the following command argument:

services:
  mybb:
    image: mybb/mybb:latest
    command: --skip-old-files php-fpm
    volumes:
    - ${PWD}/mybb:/var/www/html:rw

    ...

How to build this image

You must provide four build-time arguments when building this Docker image; BUILD_AUTHORS, BUILD_DATE, BUILD_SHA512SUM and BUILD_VERSION.

docker build \
  --build-arg BUILD_AUTHORS="Kane 'kawaii' Valentine <kawaii@mybb.com>" \
  --build-arg BUILD_DATE=$(date -u +'%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ') \
  --build-arg BUILD_SHA512SUM=be3bdec9617050abbabbfcfa40e9cd145db3a57ae70e740bc62d807b04c08a5fa42ac690a5502c344f0f7452276aa0f3802501e6d62fa76edc64ac36da25b3cd \
  --build-arg BUILD_VERSION=1830 \
  --tag mybb/mybb:1.8 \
  --tag mybb/mybb:1.8.30 \
  --tag mybb/mybb:latest \
  $PWD

The resulting image can then be pushed to the mybb/mybb Docker Hub repository:

docker push mybb/mybb:1.8.30