Preparing a Dockerized REDCap container

Owned by Stanley Boykin
Last updated: Jul 26, 2019 by Marc Natter
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If utilizing the REDCap demo/testing container that accompanies the myARCH installation, it has to be configured to the host machine it is residing on.

Testing and Demonstration Only

NOTE: This REDCap instance should only be used by REDCap-licensed users/organizations for testing and demonstration of the myARCH cluster only. For production use, the site admin should have access to an already-existing, properly-licensed version of a REDCap production instance.


To configure:

Once the myARCH cluster is installed and operational, the REDCap server should be up and running with a status that looks similar to the following:

mySCILHS Cluster - Operational Status (REDCap container highlighted by ===>>>)
[myscilhs@myscilhs-host ~]$ myscilhs.sh status
       Name              Command      State                                     Ports
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
activemq              /sbin/my_init   Up      0.0.0.0:61616->61616/tcp, 0.0.0.0:61617->61617/tcp, 0.0.0.0:8161->8161/tcp
docker_i2b2server_1   /sbin/my_init   Up      0.0.0.0:7080->80/tcp, 9090/tcp
docker_myscilhs_1     /sbin/my_init   Up      8080/tcp, 8443/tcp
====>>> docker_redcap_1       /sbin/my_init   Up      25/tcp, 443/tcp, 80/tcp
i2b2data              /sbin/my_init   Up      1521/tcp, 8080/tcp
myscilhs-db           /sbin/my_init   Up      3306/tcp
proxy                 /sbin/my_init   Up      0.0.0.0:443->443/tcp, 80/tcp

Once confirmed, do the following:

  1. Go to the server's REDCap installation (http://<myscilhs-host>/redcap/) and click on Control Center
  2. Under the System Configuration Section in the left-hand menu, click General Configuration.

  3. Change the REDCap base URL to http://<myscilhs-host>/redcap/.

  4. Click Save Changes.

Follow the instructions for REDCap mySCILHS project setup.  Sample data dictionaries can be found at $MYSCILHS_HOME/redcap/data_dictionaries.