Monica Personal CRM

Overview

Monica is an open-source personal relationship manager. This stack runs Monica with a MariaDB database.

Project Details

Project Repository: https://github.com/monicahq/monica
Container Image: Docker Hub
Documentation: https://www.monicahq.com/
Reverse Proxy Port: 80

Getting Started

Start the stack: docker compose up -d
Open http://localhost:${MONICA_PORT:-8081} in your browser
Follow the setup wizard

Environment Variable Notes

VOL_PATH – base path for persistent data volumes
VOL_PROJECTS – base path for project directories
MONICA_IMAGE – Monica container image (default: monica:latest)
MONICA_RESTART – restart policy (default: unless-stopped)
MONICA_PORT – host port mapped to container port 80 (default: 8081)
MONICA_APP_ENV – application environment (default: production)
MONICA_DB_IMAGE – MariaDB container image (default: mariadb:11)
MONICA_DB_PASSWORD – Monica database password
MONICA_MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD – MariaDB root password

Volume Notes

${VOL_PATH}/monica_dev/db – MariaDB data directory
${VOL_PATH}/monica_dev/storage – Monica storage (avatars, exports, etc.)

Network Notes

Requires the external proxy network (Nginx Proxy Manager). An internal bridge network internal is created for inter-service communication.

Docker Run

docker run -d \
  --name monica \
  -v ${VOL_PATH:-/data}/monica_dev/storage:/var/www/html/storage \
  -e DB_HOST=monica-db \
  -e DB_USERNAME=monica \
  -e DB_PASSWORD=changeme \
  -e DB_DATABASE=monica \
  -e APP_ENV=production \
  -p 8081:80 \
  --network proxy \
  monica:latest

Additional Notes / Gotchas

After making changes via the database, run php artisan migrate inside the Monica container to apply schema changes.

Dockhand Stack, Deploy from Git

Cookbooks Repository stackname: MONICA_DEV Compose file path: monica_dev/compose.yaml Additional env file (optional): monica_dev/sample.env

Then "Load" monica_dev/sample.env into the Environmental variables in dockhand

Create the Stack

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