{"id":1109,"date":"2025-01-15T22:45:08","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T22:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/?p=1109"},"modified":"2025-01-16T16:40:31","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T16:40:31","slug":"multiple-paperless-instances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/2025\/01\/multiple-paperless-instances\/","title":{"rendered":"Multiple Paperless Instances"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This nearly killed me, I thought I had nuked everything but in the end it was way easier and simpler than I had feared.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Assuming you used one of the default .yaml and .env files from the paperless-ngx github<\/a> you first need to add a database. I use portainer so went to the db shell and then did this to log in, list them, create a new one, check it is there and quit:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

psql -U paperless\n\\l\nCREATE DATABASE mynewdb;\n\\l\n\\q\nexit<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Next I needed to make a new env file. I just Save As… with the existing one and called it docker-compose-mynewone.env and added these lines:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
PAPERLESS_DBNAME=mynewdb\nPAPERLESS_SECRET_KEY=an+all+new+random+set+of+characters\nPAPERLESS_URL=https:\/\/mynewpapaerless.myfinedomain.com<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
The .yaml file needs one new section – I copied the webserver one and only changed these lines (the first instance is on 8010). The \/1 on the end of the PAPERLESS_REDIS means use a second database and you need all new volumes or things go awry (I found this out the hard way).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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  webserver<\/span>-<\/span>newone<\/span>:<\/span><\/span>\n    <\/span>ports<\/span>:<\/span><\/span>\n      <\/span>-<\/span> <\/span>"<\/span>8011:8000<\/span>"<\/span><\/span>\n    <\/span>env_file<\/span>:<\/span> docker<\/span>-<\/span>compose<\/span>-<\/span>mynewone<\/span>.<\/span>env<\/span><\/span>\n    <\/span>environment<\/span>:<\/span><\/span>\n      <\/span>PAPERLESS_REDIS<\/span>:<\/span> <\/span>redis<\/span>:<\/span>\/\/broker:6379\/1<\/span><\/span>\n    <\/span>volumes<\/span>:<\/span><\/span>\n      <\/span>-<\/span> data<\/span>-<\/span>new<\/span>:\/<\/span>usr<\/span>\/<\/span>src<\/span>\/<\/span>paperless<\/span>\/<\/span>data<\/span><\/span>\n      <\/span>-<\/span> media<\/span>-<\/span>new<\/span>:\/<\/span>usr<\/span>\/<\/span>src<\/span>\/<\/span>paperless<\/span>\/<\/span>media<\/span><\/span>\n      <\/span>-<\/span> <\/span>.\/<\/span>export<\/span>-<\/span>new<\/span>:\/<\/span>usr<\/span>\/<\/span>src<\/span>\/<\/span>paperless<\/span>\/<\/span>export<\/span><\/span>\n      <\/span>-<\/span> <\/span>.\/<\/span>consume<\/span>-<\/span>new<\/span>:\/<\/span>usr<\/span>\/<\/span>src<\/span>\/<\/span>paperless<\/span>\/<\/span>consume<\/span><\/span><\/code><\/pre><\/div>\n\n\n\n
You need to tweak the original webserver changing just this one line with the \/0.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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  <\/span>webserver<\/span>:<\/span><\/span>\n      <\/span>PAPERLESS_REDIS<\/span>:<\/span> <\/span>redis<\/span>:<\/span>\/\/broker:6379\/0<\/span><\/span><\/code><\/pre><\/div>\n\n\n\n
Then yougo to the folder with the yaml in console, stop all the instances, pull a new one and create a superuser as per the usual, but with a minor difference (the new webserver name):<\/p>\n\n\n\n
docker compose down\ndocker compose pull\ndocker compose run --rm webserver-newone createsuperuser\ndocker compose up -d<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
And that should be it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This nearly killed me, I thought I had nuked everything but in the end it was way easier and simpler than I had feared. Assuming you used one of the default .yaml and .env files from the paperless-ngx github you first need to add a database. I use portainer so went to the db shell … Continue reading Multiple Paperless Instances<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[117,116,115],"class_list":["post-1109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paperless","tag-docker","tag-frustration-2","tag-paperless"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1109"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1119,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1109\/revisions\/1119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}