Step 3: Commands

Service

systemctl start picinch When issued the first time, sets up the database, creates the directories to hold content and certificates (in/srv/picinch/), and starts PicInch. On later invocations, just starts PicInch as a service.

systemctl stop picinch Stops the PicInch service.

Docker

docker-compose logs --tail=100 View the last e.g. 100 entries in application logs. Look here for any startup errors, as well as details of security threats.

To pull updated images from Docker Hub:

1. Stop the service.
2. docker-compose pull to fetch updated images from Docker Hub.
3. Restart the service.

For new features, check Docker Hub for an inchworks/picinch image tagged 1.0, 1.1, 2.0 etc, and edit docker-compose.yml to match. A different major version number for PicInch indicates that configuration changes will be needed.

If for any reason you do not want to run PicInch as a service, you can also start it from /srv/picinch with the command docker-compose up, and stop it with docker-compose down.

Database

If you wish to delete all site content and start again, stop the server, delete /srv/picinch/mysql and /srv/picinch/photos, and restart the server.