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mealie

Mealie is a recipe manager.

mealie

Prepare

podman pull ghcr.io/mealie-recipes/mealie:<type_latest_version_dont_do_:latest>
mkdir -p $HOME/apps/{variables,container_data}
touch $HOME/apps/variables/mealie.env
mkdir -p $HOME/apps/container_data/mealie

Edit environment file

Edit the environment file and paste your default values for this service:

nano $HOME/apps/variables/mealie.env

Example contents:

ALLOW_SIGNUP=false
PUID=1000
PGID=1000
TZ=Europe/Athens
BASE_URL=http://mealie.skynet.lan

Installation

touch $HOME/.config/containers/systemd/mealie.container

# mealie.container
[Container]
ContainerName=mealie
HostName=mealie
AutoUpdate=registry
Image=ghcr.io/mealie-recipes/mealie:<type_latest_version_dont_do_:latest>
Network=skynet.network
EnvironmentFile=%h/apps/variables/mealie.env
Volume=%h/apps/container_data/mealie:/app/data
[Service]
Restart=always
TimeoutStartSec=300
[Install]
WantedBy=default.target

Configuration of Nginx (Reverse Proxy)

Create nginx conf.

touch /$HOME/apps/container_data/nginx/mealie.conf

Configuration for nginx conf for port 80.

server {
  listen 80;
  server_name mealie.skynet.lan;

  access_log /var/log/nginx/mealie_access.log;
  error_log /var/log/nginx/mealie_error.log;

  location / {
    proxy_pass http://mealie:9000;
    proxy_set_header Host $host;
    proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
    proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
  }
}

Restart Nginx

systemctl --user restart nginx

Usage

Open http://mealie.skynet.lan

Troubleshooting

podman logs -f mealie
journalctl --user -u nginx -n 200