<p>If you have questions about how to use Laradock, please direct your questions to the discussion on <a href="https://gitter.im/Laradock/laradock">Gitter</a>. If you believe your question could help others, then consider opening an <a href="https://github.com/laradock/laradock/issues">Issue</a> (it will be labeled as <code>Question</code>) And you can still seek help on Gitter for it.</p>
<li><p>Before you submit your issue search the archive, maybe your question was already answered couple hours ago (search in the closed Issues as well).</p></li>
<li><p>Decide if the Issue belongs to this project or to <a href="https://github.com/docker">Docker</a> itself! or even the tool you are using such as Nginx or MongoDB&hellip;</p></li>
</ol>
<p>If your issue appears to be a bug, and hasn&rsquo;t been reported, then open a new issue.</p>
<p><em>This Help us to maximize the effort we can spend fixing issues and adding new
features, by not reporting duplicate issues.</em></p>
<h2 id="i-want-a-feature">I want a Feature</h2>
<p>You can request a new feature by submitting an <a href="https://github.com/laradock/laradock/issues">Issue</a> (it will be labeled as <code>Feature Suggestion</code>). If you would like to implement a new feature then consider submitting a Pull Request yourself.</p>
<p>Laradock uses <a href="https://gohugo.io/">Hugo</a> as website generator tool, with the <a href="http://themes.gohugo.io/theme/material-docs/">Material Docs theme</a>. You might need to check their docs quickly.</p>
<li>Install <a href="https://gohugo.io/">Hugo</a> on your machine (easy steps).</li>
<li>Open the <code>DOCUMENTATION/_settings/content</code> and search for the markdown file you want to edit (every folder is a section in the menu).</li>
<li>After done editing, run the this command <code>hugo</code> to generate the updated site inside the <code>docs</code> folder (It&rsquo;s recommended to delete all files form the <code>/docs</code> folder, except the <code>CNAME</code> file, before running the <code>hugo</code> command).</li>
<p>Go to <code>DOCUMENTATION/_settings</code> in your terminal and run <code>hugo serve</code> to host the website locally.</p>
<h4 id="edit-the-sidebar">Edit the sidebar</h4>
<p>To add a new section to the sidebar or edit existing one, you need to edit this file <code>DOCUMENTATION/_settings/config.toml</code>.</p>
<h2 id="how-to-support-new-software-add-new-container">How to support new Software (Add new Container)</h2>
<li><p>Open the software (container) folder.</p></li>
<li><p>Edit the files you want to update.</p></li>
<li><p><strong>Note:</strong> If you want to edit the base image of the <code>Workspace</code> or the <code>php-fpm</code> Containers,
you need to edit their Docker-files from their GitHub repositories. For more info read their Dockerfiles comment on the Laradock repository.</p></li>
<li><p>Search <a href="https://github.com/laradock/laradock/pulls">GitHub</a> for an open or closed Pull Request that relates to your submission. You don&rsquo;t want to duplicate efforts.</p></li>
<li><p>In GitHub, send a pull request to <code>laradock:master</code>.</p></li>
<li><p>If we suggest changes then:</p>
<ul>
<li>Make the required updates.</li>
<li>Commit your changes to your branch (e.g. <code>my-fix-branch</code>).</li>
<li>Push the changes to your GitHub repository (this will update your Pull Request).</li>
</ul></li>
</ul>
<blockquote>
<p>If the PR gets too outdated we may ask you to rebase and force push to update the PR:</p>
</blockquote>
<pre><code class="language-shell">git rebase master -i
git push origin my-fix-branch -f
</code></pre>
<p><em>WARNING. Squashing or reverting commits and forced push thereafter may remove GitHub comments on code that were previously made by you and others in your commits.</em></p>