OJS -

Open Journal Systems (OJS) is a journal management and publishing system that has been developed by the Public Knowledge Project through its federally funded efforts to expand and improve access to research.

Check out its creators and its official website.

Tags

• latest - Tag 'ojs-3_1_1-4' of OJS repo

Quick Run

Available options to quickly run your instance of OJS service.

Docker Compose

For this method you'll need to have docker-compose installed on you system. Check here how to install docker-compose.

Steps:

• Create a folder named OJS or something else you like;
• Enter that folder you created;
• Create a docker-compose.yml file with contents below;
• (GUI Only) Open Terminal in the actual path;
• Run docker-compose up.

Then your service will be available on http://localhost:8181/.

# docker-compose.yml
version: "3.6"
services:
  ojs:
    image: arturluizbr/pkp-ojs:latest
    ports: 
      - 8181:80
    environment: 
      - PKP_DATABASE_DRIVER=mysqli
      - PKP_DATABASE_HOST=mysql
      - PKP_DATABASE_USERNAME=ojs
      - PKP_DATABASE_PASSWORD=ojs
      - PKP_DATABASE_NAME=ojs
  mysql:
    image: mysql:5.7
    volumes:
      - db_data:/var/lib/mysql
    environment: 
      - MYSQL_DATABASE=ojs
      - MYSQL_USER=ojs
      - MYSQL_PASSWORD=ojs
      - MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=root

volumes: 
  db_data:

Environment Variables

Basically all variables inside config.inc.php can be override with its environment version.

Check the full lisk of environment variables and their description here.

Volumes

TODO

OJS Tools

TODO

Upgrading

Warning: THIS PROCEDURE WAS NOT TESTED

Steps:

• Backup and/or restore your database accoding to db image you use;
• Configure your docker-compose file to use the newest version of this image;
• Recreate your OJS container with newest version (docker-compose up -d --force-recreate);
• Enter the terminal mode of your container (docker-compose exec ojs bash);
• Run the official upgrade tool from OJS (php -c $PHP_INI_DIR tools/upgrade.php upgrade);

Using your own version of OJS

To use your custom version of OJS, update the following ARGs when buiding this image.

Steps:

• Clone/Fork this repository to your workspace.
• (Docker variant) Build the image using custom ARGs (docker build --build-arg repo_url=[YOUR-REPO] --build-arg tag_name=[YOUR_TAG_OR_BRANCH] -t user/ojs:latest .);
• (Docker Compose variant) Update ARGs in your docker-compose.yml file and build the image using docker-compose build.