diff --git a/Docker.md b/Docker.md index f8f59a7..46f86f3 100644 --- a/Docker.md +++ b/Docker.md @@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ To access your archive, you can open `data/index.html` directly, or you can use There are a number of easy ways to pass in environment variables for configuring ArchiveBox. -You can edit the `environment:` section in `docker-compose.yml` directly or you can add a `env_file: ./path/to/ArchiveBox.conf` line before `environment:` to import variables from an env file. +The recommended way is to edit the `environment:` section in `docker-compose.yml` directly or add an `env_file: ./path/to/ArchiveBox.conf` line before `environment:` to import variables from an env file. You can also specify an env file via CLI when running compose using `docker-compose --env-file=/path/to/config.env ...` although you must specify the variables in the `environment:` section that you want to have passed down to the ArchiveBox container from the passed env file. @@ -111,11 +111,12 @@ With this: `--mount type=bind,source=/your/data/folder/on/host,target=/data` If you used the named docker volume `archivebox-data` as shown in the examples above, you can mount the volume using any standard docker tools, or access the data folder directly here: `/var/lib/docker/volumes/archivebox-data/_data` (on most systems) -On a Mac host you'll have to enter the base Docker Linux VM first to access the volume data: +If you're using a named volume on a Mac host you'll have to enter the base Docker Linux VM first to access the volume data: ```bash screen ~/Library/Containers/com.docker.docker/Data/vms/0/tty cd /var/lib/docker/volumes/archivebox-data/_data ``` +It's recommended to bind a local directory on Mac rather than use a named volume so that you don't have to enter the Linux VM to access your archive output. ## Configuration To pass configuration parameters, you can use the env command.