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There are many configuration values that you can override, for example the default admin email address. You can do this in a few different ways

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To do this you will need to edit the custom.conf file used by clowder. This file is located in the clowder

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-custom volume.

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 You can either change the content of this folder directly (use docker volume inspect clowder_clowder_1 to find the actual location on disk), or you can exec into the running docker container (docker exec -ti clowder_clowder_1 /bin/bash) and goto the folder /home/clowder/custom. You can edit the custom.conf file to fit your needs.

A list of all values that can be changed can be found at https://opensource.ncsa.illinois.edu/bitbucket/projects/CATS/repos/clowder/browse/conf/application.conf.

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To see the logfiles for a specific container, especially useful if you started docker-compose up -d, you can use docker logs <container name>, for example to see the log files for clowder you can use docker logs -f clowder_clowder_1 (this will follow the log file, to stop this you need to press ctrl -c).

To see the volumes and the actual location on disk you can use docker volume ls, as well as docker volume inspect. Both windows and mac will use a virtual machine, so the volumes will be located in that virtual machine.

If you run clowder using docker-compose up, you will have all the log files in the console where you started clowder. If you use docker-compose up -d, all containers will run in the background. You can 

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