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From: cheeks <thomas@dagostinotech.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2025 14:14:37 +0000
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+title: Setting Up Apache Guacamole 
+description: As of Sept 22th 2025
+published: true
+date: 2025-09-22T14:14:34.581Z
+tags: virtual machine, vm, containers, remote-desktop, proxmox, tutorials, guacamole, remote-access
+editor: markdown
+dateCreated: 2025-09-22T14:14:34.581Z
+---
+
+# Apace Guacamole Setup Guide
+
+##### (Assumes setup of docker complete.)
+1. Pull Docker Images: 
+	```
+   docker pull guacamole/guacamole:latest
+	docker pull guacamole/guacd:latest
+ 	docker pull mariadb:latest
+  	```
+    
+2. Run the following: `docker run --rm guacamole/guacamole:1.4.0 /opt/guacamole/bin/initdb.sh --mysql > initdb.sql`
+
+3. Create initial DB docker-compose.yml:
+``` 
+version: '3'
+services:
+  guacdb:
+    container_name: guacamoledb
+    image: mariadb:latest
+    restart: unless-stopped
+    environment:
+      MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: 'MariaDBRootPass'
+      MYSQL_DATABASE: 'guacamole_db'
+      MYSQL_USER: 'guacamole_user'
+      MYSQL_PASSWORD: 'MariaDBUserPass'
+    volumes:
+      - './db-data:/var/lib/mysql'
+volumes:
+  db-data:
+```
+4. Run `docker compose up -d`
+
+5. Run `docker cp initdb.sql guacamoledb:/initdb.sql`
+
+6. Run the following:
+```
+docker exec -it guacamoledb bash
+cat /initdb.sql | mysql -u root -p guacamole_db
+exit
+```
+
+7. Run `docker compose down`
+
+8. update docker-compose.yml:
+```
+version: '3'
+services:
+  guacdb:
+    container_name: guacamoledb
+    image: mariadb:latest
+    restart: unless-stopped
+    environment:
+      MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: 'MariaDBRootPass'
+      MYSQL_DATABASE: 'guacamole_db'
+      MYSQL_USER: 'guacamole_user'
+      MYSQL_PASSWORD: 'MariaDBUserPass'
+    volumes:
+      - './db-data:/var/lib/mysql'
+  guacd:
+    container_name: guacd
+    image: guacamole/guacd:latest
+    restart: unless-stopped
+  guacamole:
+    container_name: guacamole
+    image: guacamole/guacamole:latest
+    restart: unless-stopped
+    ports:
+      - 8080:8080
+    environment:
+      GUACD_HOSTNAME: "guacd"
+      MYSQL_HOSTNAME: "guacdb"
+      MYSQL_DATABASE: "guacamole_db"
+      MYSQL_USER: "guacamole_user"
+      MYSQL_PASSWORD: "MariaDBUserPass"
+      TOTP_ENABLED: "true"
+    depends_on:
+      - guacdb
+      - guacd
+volumes:
+  db-data:
+  ```
+  
+9. Run `docker compose up -d` Proceed to `http://ip-address:8080/guacamole` 
+
+User: `guacadmin` 
+Pass: `guacadmin`
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