webarena/environment_docker

Docker for WebArena Websites

This REAME file host the instructions for our Docker images and quick start guide for starting up websites used in WebArena.

Table of Content

• Pre-installed Amazon Machine Image (Recommended)
  • Environment reset
• Individual Website
  • Shopping Website (OneStopShop)
  • E-commerce Content Management System (CMS)
  • Social Forum Website (Reddit)
  • Gitlab Website
  • Wikipedia Website
  • Homepage
  • Map
  • Documentation sites

Pre-installed Amazon Machine Image (Recommended)

We provide AMI which have all the websites pre-installed. You can use the AMI to start a new EC2 instance.

AMI Information (EC2 console > AMIs). IMPORTANT: AMIs are region-scoped.
Region: us-east-2 (Ohio)
Visibility: Public (available to all accounts in us-east-2)
Name: webarena-with-configurable-map-backend
ID: ami-08a862bf98e3bd7aa

Note: If you cannot find the AMI, make sure the EC2 console region is switched to us-east-2 (Ohio).

1. Create a security group that allows all inbound traffic, or at minimum, create a security group with the following inbound rules:

   • SSH (port 22) from your IP
   • HTTP (port 80) from anywhere (0.0.0.0/0)
   • Custom TCP ports: 3000, 7770, 7780, 8023, 8888, 9999 from anywhere (0.0.0.0/0)

2. Create an instance (recommended type: t3a.xlarge, 1000GB EBS root volume) from the webarena AMI. Use the security group just created and remember to select SSH key-pair.

3. Map Backend Configuration: Add the following to your instance's user data to automatically configure the map backend:

   MAP_BACKEND_IP=YOUR_MAP_BACKEND_IP
   

   Replace YOUR_MAP_BACKEND_IP with your map backend server's IP address.

4. Create an Elastic IP and bind to the instance to associate the instance with a static IP and hostname. Take note of the hostname, usually in the form of "ec2-xx-xx-xx-xx.us-east-2.compute.amazonaws.com". This will be used as "" in the following commands.

5. Log into the server, start all dockers by:

docker start gitlab
docker start shopping
docker start shopping_admin
docker start forum
docker start kiwix33
cd /home/ubuntu/openstreetmap-website/
docker compose start

🕐 wait ~1 min to wait all services to start

If services are not accessible externally, run these iptables rules:

sudo iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp --dport 7770 -j REDIRECT --to-port 7770
sudo iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp --dport 7780 -j REDIRECT --to-port 7780
sudo iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp --dport 3000 -j REDIRECT --to-port 3000
sudo iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp --dport 8888 -j REDIRECT --to-port 8888
sudo iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp --dport 9999 -j REDIRECT --to-port 9999
sudo iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp --dport 8023 -j REDIRECT --to-port 8023

6. Run

docker exec shopping /var/www/magento2/bin/magento setup:store-config:set --base-url="http://<your-server-hostname>:7770" # no trailing /
docker exec shopping mysql -u magentouser -pMyPassword magentodb -e  'UPDATE core_config_data SET value="http://<your-server-hostname>:7770/" WHERE path = "web/secure/base_url";'
# remove the requirement to reset password
docker exec shopping_admin php /var/www/magento2/bin/magento config:set admin/security/password_is_forced 0
docker exec shopping_admin php /var/www/magento2/bin/magento config:set admin/security/password_lifetime 0
docker exec shopping /var/www/magento2/bin/magento cache:flush

docker exec shopping_admin /var/www/magento2/bin/magento setup:store-config:set --base-url="http://<your-server-hostname>:7780"
docker exec shopping_admin mysql -u magentouser -pMyPassword magentodb -e  'UPDATE core_config_data SET value="http://<your-server-hostname>:7780/" WHERE path = "web/secure/base_url";'
docker exec shopping_admin /var/www/magento2/bin/magento cache:flush

docker exec gitlab sed -i "s|^external_url.*|external_url 'http://<your-server-hostname>:8023'|" /etc/gitlab/gitlab.rb
docker exec gitlab gitlab-ctl reconfigure

If GitLab shows 502 errors, run:

docker exec gitlab rm -f /var/opt/gitlab/postgresql/data/postmaster.pid
docker exec gitlab /opt/gitlab/embedded/bin/pg_resetwal -f /var/opt/gitlab/postgresql/data
docker exec gitlab gitlab-ctl restart

Test all services (should return HTTP 200):

HOSTNAME="<your-server-hostname>"
curl -s -o /dev/null -w "Shopping (7770): %{http_code}\n" http://$HOSTNAME:7770
curl -s -o /dev/null -w "Shopping Admin (7780): %{http_code}\n" http://$HOSTNAME:7780
curl -s -o /dev/null -w "Forum (9999): %{http_code}\n" http://$HOSTNAME:9999
curl -s -o /dev/null -w "Wikipedia (8888): %{http_code}\n" http://$HOSTNAME:8888
curl -s -o /dev/null -w "Map (3000): %{http_code}\n" http://$HOSTNAME:3000
curl -s -o /dev/null -w "GitLab (8023): %{http_code}\n" http://$HOSTNAME:8023
curl -s -o /dev/null -w "Map tile: %{http_code}\n" http://$HOSTNAME:3000/tile/0/0/0.png

You should be able to access your environment websites now, and stop reading. However, if you are unable to use AWS AMI, read below to set up on your own machine.

Environment reset

After evaluating the 812 examples, reset the environment to the initial state

# stop and remove the images
docker stop shopping_admin forum gitlab shopping
docker remove shopping_admin forum gitlab shopping
# start the images
docker run --name shopping -p 7770:80 -d shopping_final_0712
docker run --name shopping_admin -p 7780:80 -d shopping_admin_final_0719
docker run --name gitlab -d -p 8023:8023 gitlab-populated-final-port8023 /opt/gitlab/embedded/bin/runsvdir-start
docker run --name forum -p 9999:80 -d postmill-populated-exposed-withimg
<repeat the commands in step 5 above>

Individual Website

We highly recommend setting up the environments with AMI introduced above, but we also list the steps to setting up individual websites below. This allows you to setup selected websites locally.

Shopping Website (OneStopShop)

Download the image tar from the following mirrors:

• https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gxXalk9O0p9eu1YkIJcmZta1nvvyAJpA/view?usp=sharing
• https://archive.org/download/webarena-env-shopping-image
• http://metis.lti.cs.cmu.edu/webarena-images/shopping_final_0712.tar

docker load --input shopping_final_0712.tar
docker run --name shopping -p 7770:80 -d shopping_final_0712
# wait ~1 min to wait all services to start

docker exec shopping /var/www/magento2/bin/magento setup:store-config:set --base-url="http://<your-server-hostname>:7770" # no trailing slash
docker exec shopping mysql -u magentouser -pMyPassword magentodb -e  'UPDATE core_config_data SET value="http://<your-server-hostname>:7770/" WHERE path = "web/secure/base_url";'
docker exec shopping /var/www/magento2/bin/magento cache:flush

Now you can visit http://<your-server-hostname>:7770.

E-commerce Content Management System (CMS)

Download the image tar from the following mirrors:

• https://drive.google.com/file/d/1See0ZhJRw0WTTL9y8hFlgaduwPZ_nGfd/view?usp=sharing
• https://archive.org/download/webarena-env-shopping-admin-image
• http://metis.lti.cs.cmu.edu/webarena-images/shopping_admin_final_0719.tar

docker load --input shopping_admin_final_0719.tar
docker run --name shopping_admin -p 7780:80 -d shopping_admin_final_0719
# wait ~1 min to wait all services to start

docker exec shopping_admin /var/www/magento2/bin/magento setup:store-config:set --base-url="http://<your-server-hostname>:7780" # no trailing slash
docker exec shopping_admin mysql -u magentouser -pMyPassword magentodb -e  'UPDATE core_config_data SET value="http://<your-server-hostname>:7780/" WHERE path = "web/secure/base_url";'
docker exec shopping_admin /var/www/magento2/bin/magento cache:flush

Now you can visit http://<your-server-hostname>:7780/admin.

Social Forum Website (Reddit)

Download the image tar from the following mirrors:

• https://drive.google.com/file/d/17Qpp1iu_mPqzgO_73Z9BnFjHrzmX9DGf/view?usp=sharing
• https://archive.org/download/webarena-env-forum-image
• http://metis.lti.cs.cmu.edu/webarena-images/postmill-populated-exposed-withimg.tar

docker load --input postmill-populated-exposed-withimg.tar
docker run --name forum -p 9999:80 -d postmill-populated-exposed-withimg

Now you can visit http://<your-server-hostname>:9999/.

Gitlab Website

Download the image tar from the following mirrors:

• https://drive.google.com/file/d/19W8qM0DPyRvWCLyQe0qtnCWAHGruolMR/view?usp=sharing
• https://archive.org/download/webarena-env-gitlab-image
• http://metis.lti.cs.cmu.edu/webarena-images/gitlab-populated-final-port8023.tar

docker load --input gitlab-populated-final-port8023.tar
docker run --name gitlab -d -p 8023:8023 gitlab-populated-final-port8023 /opt/gitlab/embedded/bin/runsvdir-start

# wait at least 5 mins for services to boot
docker exec gitlab sed -i "s|^external_url.*|external_url 'http://<your-server-hostname>:8023'|" /etc/gitlab/gitlab.rb
docker exec gitlab gitlab-ctl reconfigure

It might take 5 mins to start and then you can visit http://<your-server-hostname>:8023/explore.

Wikipedia Website

Download the data from the following mirrors:

• https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Um4QLxi_bGv5bP6kt83Ke0lNjuV9Tm0P/view?usp=sharing
• https://archive.org/download/webarena-env-wiki-image
• http://metis.lti.cs.cmu.edu/webarena-images/wikipedia_en_all_maxi_2022-05.zim

docker run -d --name=wikipedia --volume=<your-path-to-downloaded-folder>/:/data -p 8888:80 ghcr.io/kiwix/kiwix-serve:3.3.0 wikipedia_en_all_maxi_2022-05.zim

Now you can visit http://<your-server-hostname>:8888/wikipedia_en_all_maxi_2022-05/A/User:The_other_Kiwix_guy/Landing.

Homepage

The homepage lists all available websites which the agent can use to navigate to different sites.

To host the homepage, first change <your-server-hostname> to the corresponding server hostnames in webarena_homepage/templates/index.html

# Define your actual server hostname
YOUR_ACTUAL_HOSTNAME=""
# Remove trailing / if it exists
YOUR_ACTUAL_HOSTNAME=${YOUR_ACTUAL_HOSTNAME%/}
# Use sed to replace placeholder in the HTML file
perl -pi -e "s|<your-server-hostname>|${YOUR_ACTUAL_HOSTNAME}|g" webarena-homepage/templates/index.html

Then run

cd webarena-homepage
flask run --host=0.0.0.0 --port=4399

The homepage will be available at http://<your-server-hostname>:4399.

Map

The WebArena AMI automatically configures the map frontend to use your specified map backend server when you set MAP_BACKEND_IP=YOUR_MAP_BACKEND_IP in the user data (as shown in step 3 above). No manual configuration is required.

Setting up your own map backend

If you want to run your own tile server, geocoding server, and routing server instead of using the existing AWS infrastructure:

1. Launch Ubuntu 24.04 LTS instance (t3a.xlarge, 1000GB storage) in us-east-2

   • AWS EC2 Launch Tutorial

2. Use automated setup script as user data during launch:

   • Copy the contents of webarena-map-backend-boot-init.yaml from this repository
   • Paste it into the "User data" field when launching your instance
   • AWS User Data Documentation

3. Wait for setup completion (60-90 minutes for automatic setup, ~180GB download)

4. Update your WebArena frontend to point to your new backend server:

   • Set MAP_BACKEND_IP=<your-backend-server-ip> when launching your WebArena instances
   • The AMI will automatically configure all map services to use your backend

This automated approach handles all the complex setup including tile server, geocoding server, and routing server configuration.

Documentation sites

We are still working on dockerizing the documentation sites. As they are read-only sites and they usually don't change rapidly. It is safe to use their live sites for test purpose right now.