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🛠️ Setup HortusFox — Collaborative Plant Care Tracker

Deploy HortusFox on Ubuntu with Docker — a self-hosted, collaborative plant management system for tracking your plants, their care schedules, and photos, backed by MariaDB, on port 8253.

⚠️ This script is provided for demo and testing purposes only. Not intended for production use.

📦 Resources & Setup Scripts

Grab the automated bash script from GitHub to follow along with the video.

Automated install script — one command deploys HortusFox with MariaDB on port 8253 and creates an admin account (admin@example.com) with a generated password. Note the credentials it prints.
View on GitHub

Quick Install:

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mhmdali94/Docker/main/tools/hortusfox/hortusfox-ubuntu.sh
chmod +x hortusfox-ubuntu.sh
./hortusfox-ubuntu.sh

Tutorial Steps

1 Download the Script

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mhmdali94/Docker/main/tools/hortusfox/hortusfox-ubuntu.sh

2 Make it Executable

chmod +x hortusfox-ubuntu.sh

3 Run the Installer

./hortusfox-ubuntu.sh

4 Log In and Add Your Plants

http://your-server-ip:8253

Ports Used

PortPurpose
8253HortusFox web interface (mapped from container port 80)
3306MariaDB — internal to the Docker network, not exposed to the host

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              Backup and Maintenance

                Common Mistakes

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