Where do I sign in?

[raphaelparent]

I'm interested in using this new piece of software but I can't find the page to sign in?

The doc currently just says "sign in" under the "how it works" section.

It must be somewhere obvious and I'm too blind so see it, or is it not available yet?

[gempain]

Hi @raphaelparent, thanks for reaching out ! Are you trying to find a sign in page in a cloud version of Meli ?

Meli is a self-hosted tool you are supposed to install on your VPS. Once deployed, just browse to <your-meli-url> and it should be straight forward from there.

You can find the installation instructions here.

[raphaelparent]

@gempain I had a feeling it was self hosted but I wasn't sure based on the documentations. The installation/deployment of the server is vague, maybe because I have never used docker.

I could dig further but I believe the installation page on the documentation should elaborate more on how to set up the server. I know this is a young project so I'm only pointing it out. I would be glad to help further but this is not my field of expertise (and english is not my first language). But here's some information I would find useful.

Getting started

Things needed

• A domain name
• MongoDB cluster
• Some docker knowledge (learn more here)
• etc.

Step 1
Configure DNS records to point to your Meli server:

Step 2
Create a docker config file based on the template provided here

Step X
... and further steps needed to get up and started.

[raphaelparent]

On a side note, I see that building a website for the project is in the features list. That is something I can tackle!

I always wanted to get my hands in open source projects, this is me diving in. Let me know if you need help on that.

[gempain]

@raphaelparent thanks for helping out making this tool better ! I'll try to go through the docs and see how we can improve it based on your comments. It does make sense, we wrote it for people familiar with Docker - which I highly recommend you get familiar with, it's probably THE revolution of the past few years.

Regarding the website, thanks so much for offering your help ! Unfortunately, we have already someone on it 🚀 but we'll be grateful for receiving feedback once the site is out.

As a side note, we will be launching a SAAS version in a while, which will allow you to not have to install yourself.

Also note, you don't need a MongoDB cluster. A single instance with Docker is sufficient.

[gempain]

I'm closing in favor of #169. You may continue to reply, we will reopen if needed.