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Preparation

There are some things we need to do in preparation to install this service.

Volumes

Persistent Data

This is where the service will store its own application data and ensures we can quickly update the service image.

Ensure your user has permissions to access the folder.

Environment

TZDB_USER

This is the current time zone formatted using the tz database.

For example: America/Vancouver

PUIDAPP_URL

This is the numeric ID of the user account on Debian.  If you are unsure, open a terminal and run:

id -u
PGID

This is the numeric ID of the user account's group on Debian.  If you are unsure, open a terminal and run:

id -g

DB_USER=
DB_PASS=
APP_URL=monica.example.com
APP_NAME=Monica
APP_KEY=

Passwords

Keep these securely stored in a password manager, such as VaultWarden.

DB_ROOT_PASSDB_PASS

This is the password that will be used for root access to the database.

It is important to use secure, randomly generated password.

You can use a random alphanumeric string from a password manager, or open the terminal and run the command:

tr -dc 'A-Za-z0-9!"#$%&'\''()*+,-./:;<=>?@[\]^_`{|}~' </dev/urandom | head -c 32; echo

This pulls a random string from the 'urandom' device, removes unwanted characters and trim it to an appropriate length.

OWNCLOUD_ADMIN_PASSWORDAPP_KEY

This is the password for the administrator account that will be used withinfor root access to the web interface.database.

It is important to use securesecure, passphraserandomly thatgenerated ispassword.

easy-to-remember.

You can use a random alphanumeric string from a password manager, or open the terminal and run the command:

tr -dc 'A-Za-z0-9!"#$%&'\''()*+,-./:;<=>?@[\]^_`{|}~' </dev/urandom | head -c 32; echo

This pulls a random string from the 'urandom' device, removes unwanted characters and trim it to an appropriate length.