Reset the database

It is often useful to restart HACC-Hui with a new database. This involves:

  1. Stopping the HACC-Hui service.
  2. Dropping the MongoDB database.
  3. Edit the settings..json file to point to the new database to load on startup.
  4. Shutdown all the docker processes.
  5. Restart the docker processes.

Stop HACC-Hui

First, find the running docker containers and stop the hacchui container.

$ docker ps
CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES
4cdfb3474cf3 certbot/certbot "/bin/sh -c 'trap ex…" 25 hours ago Up 25 hours 80/tcp, 443/tcp hacchuidocker_certbot_1
1cb7d4c9785b hacchui/hacchui:1.1.0 "docker-entrypoint.s…" 25 hours ago Up 25 hours 0.0.0.0:3100->3100/tcp, 80/tcp, 0.0.0.0:8888->8888/tcp hacchuidocker_hacchui_1
f825da05de1e mongo:4.0.5 "docker-entrypoint.s…" 25 hours ago Up 25 hours 127.0.0.1:27017->27017/tcp hacchui-mongo
$ docker stop [container]

Drop database

Second, drop the database by invoking this command:

$ docker exec hacchui-mongo mongo radgrad --eval "db.dropDatabase();"

Edit settings

Third, edit the config/settings.production.json file to specify the new database.

This usually involves changing the value of the field "databaseRestoreFileName".

Stop the Docker processes

Fourth, stop the docker processes.

$ docker-compose down

Restart with updated settings

Finally, restart the docker processes.

$ ./docker-compose-run.sh
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