Dockerfile to set up Spotweb on ARM and X86 based systems

The main goal of this Dockerfile is to easily set up Spotweb using Docker on the Raspberry Pi 2/3 (or any compatible ARM chipset) and regular X86 chipsets.

Quick setup using dockerfile

Spotweb always requires a database server (MySQL), the easiest solution is to use the docker-compose setup. The other option is to manually specify an external server using the ENV variables below.

docker run -p 8080:80 --name spotweb -d -v /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro erikdevries/spotweb

Provide one or more of the following environment variables to configure the database server (all optional, default values are given below):

• DB_ENGINE (default = pdo_mysql)
• DB_HOST (default = mysql)
• DB_PORT (default = 3306)
• DB_NAME (default = spotweb)
• DB_USER (default = spotweb)
• DB_PASS (default = spotweb)

E.g. to configure server with host some.external.mysql-server.com and port 6612 do the following:

docker run -p 8080:80 --name spotweb -d -v /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro -e "DB_HOST=some.external.mysql-server.com" -e "DB_PORT=6612" erikdevries/spotweb

Quick setup using docker compose

• docker-compose -f docker-compose-arm.yml up or docker-compose -f docker-compose-x86.yml up depending on cpu architecture
• Visit http://localhost:8080
• Login with username admin and password spotweb
• Configure usenet server and wait for cronjob to update (runs once every 5 minutes)

Information

• Spotweb is configured as an open system after running docker-compose up, so everyone who can access can register an account (keep this in mind)
• If you want to use the Spotweb API, create a new user and use the API key associated with that user
• If you would like to save nzb files to disk for (e.g.) SABnzbd to be picked up, configure docker-compose.yml to mount e.g. /nzb to some directory where nzb's need to be saved, and configure Spotweb to save NZB's to this directory on disk

Docker setup

I decided on the following setup for this Docker image:

• Image contains NGINX, PHP 7 and Crond
• For the database a MySQL 5.x image is used (MySQL 8 can also be used)
• To prevent having to configure Spotweb manually upgrade-db.php is run to upgrade the database and reset the password for the admin user (so currently the admin always has password spotweb, you can change this after the first login)
• Crond is used to run the retrieve.php script which updates Spotweb with the latest headers from a configured usenet server, the crontab is run every 5 minutes
• The only required manual configuration is setting up a valid usenet server
• Depending on what you like, you can mount the /nzb volume and let Spotweb save nzb's to that directory (e.g. mount /nzb to a folder watched by sabnzbd)