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tajniak81andClaude Opus 5 9f5c8dc49a The address chargers are given is now an address that answers
The API Server tells a charger to dial the host it was itself asked on.
The panel asks through the Web App, so the address handed out is the Web
App's — which proxied /api/ and nothing else, and answered the WebSocket
handshake at /ocpp/ with index.html. A charger pointed at the endpoint the
screen showed could never connect to it, and the screen went on saying
"Not connected" without a hint as to why.

Both front doors now carry /ocpp/ through to the API Server: the BFF via
the same reverse proxy, which relays the 101 by hijacking, and the
all-in-one image's nginx via a location of its own, with timeouts long
enough for a session that is idle between heartbeats.

The proxied hop also has to say how the client arrived, since the API
Server reads X-Forwarded-Proto to decide a charger reached it over TLS.
That header is set from this server's own connection and overwrites
whatever came in: believing a client on that point would let a plaintext
charger claim wss and walk past OCPP_REQUIRE_TLS. TRUST_FORWARDED_PROTO
opts into the inbound value for the one deployment where it is true — TLS
ending at a proxy in front of the stack.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-01 14:31:24 +02:00
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DriverVault — Docker AIO (all-in-one image)

PocketBase + API Server + Web App in a single container, supervised by supervisord with nginx serving the SPA and proxying /api/ to the API Server on localhost. One image, one volume set, no compose network — the simplest way to stand DriverVault up on a single host.

Prefer the three-container stack in ../Docker when you want to scale, upgrade or restart the pieces independently.

:80   nginx ─► SPA, and /api/ ─► API Server on 127.0.0.1:8080 ─► PocketBase on :8070
File Use
Dockerfile the all-in-one image (build context must be the repo root)
docker-compose.yml builds from source — for development and local testing
docker-compose.prod.yml pulls the prebuilt image from the registry
.env.example / .env.prod.example copy to .env for the matching compose file

Run it

cd "Docker-AIO"
cp .env.example .env        # then edit — PB_ADMIN_* have no safe defaults
docker compose up -d --build

Production, from the registry:

cp .env.prod.example .env   # then edit
docker compose -f docker-compose.prod.yml pull
docker compose -f docker-compose.prod.yml up -d

Then: web app on http://host:8090/, the API Server's superadmin panel on http://host:8080/, PocketBase admin on http://host:8070/_/.

Note the port mapping: inside the container the web app is on 80, published as WEB_PORT (8090 by default) to line up with the other deployment.

Building by hand

The build context must be the repo root so the Dockerfile can reach both API Server/ and Web App/:

docker build -f "Docker-AIO/Dockerfile" -t drivervault-aio .

Build args: VITE_API_BASE (leave empty so the bundle uses same-origin /api) and PB_VERSION, which the Dockerfile already pins. Override it to build a different PocketBase; set it to an empty string to resolve the latest release at build time instead.

First boot

Identical to the multi-container stack, and idempotent:

  1. PocketBase upserts its superuser from PB_ADMIN_EMAIL / PB_ADMIN_PASSWORD.
  2. The API Server waits for PocketBase to report healthy, then creates any missing collections, reconciles existing ones, and creates the first app superadmin from DRIVERVAULT_SUPERADMIN_EMAIL / _PASSWORD.

Leave PB_BOOTSTRAP at true, including across upgrades. A release can add collections or fields the server needs, and a stack that skipped the bootstrap never gets them. The API Server self-heals exactly one thing — app_settings, the collection holding the plugin settings, which it creates on demand because it cannot serve the plugin panel without it. Every other schema change still depends on this flag, so turn it off only for a database you know already matches the release you are running.

Volumes

Volume Holds
/pb/pb_data the PocketBase SQLite database and uploaded files — everything that persists

One volume, because the API Server keeps no state on disk. Plugin enable-state and global config live in the database like the rest of the settings, so backing up this one path backs up the whole image. It defaults to a Docker-managed named volume; set PB_DATA to an absolute host path in the prod file for a bind mount.

One thing does not persist: the API Server panel's Settings → PocketBase and Settings → Web App screens apply immediately but only for the life of the container. Set the corresponding environment variables to change them permanently.

Charger control (OCPP)

Chargers in own/proxy mode dial in to /ocpp/{serial} on the API Server port (8080) — not through nginx — authenticating with a per-charger control token in an OCPP Basic-auth header. Because a plaintext ws:// would expose that token, OCPP_REQUIRE_TLS defaults to true.

This image serves plain HTTP, so charger control needs TLS terminated in front of it, with OCPP_PUBLIC_URL set to the public wss:// base. Only drop OCPP_REQUIRE_TLS on a trusted network.

Caveats

  • PocketBase and the API Server run as the unprivileged app user; only nginx stays root, because it binds port 80. A crash of supervisord still takes all three services down together — that is the trade for the simplicity.
  • Logs from all three processes are interleaved on the container's stdout/stderr (docker logs drivervault-aio).
  • PB_VERSION is pinned in the Dockerfile so two builds of the same source agree. Setting it to an empty string restores the old behaviour of resolving the latest release at build time, which also costs an unauthenticated GitHub API call and is subject to that 60/hour per-IP rate limit.
  • The container reports health once all three processes answer their probes, so a wedged component shows up in docker ps rather than looking up.