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 # docker-tmserver
-Docker image for simple or customizable Trackmania Nations/United Forever server
+Docker image for simple or customizable Trackmania Nations Forever server
+
+## How to use this image
+```docker run -e {required environment variables} -p {selected ports} fanyx/tmserver```
+
+### There are several required environment variables that you need to set:
+  - `$SERVER_LOGIN`               | Server account login
+  - `$SERVER_LOGIN_PASSWORD`      | Server account password
+  - `$DB_HOST`                    | Hostname of the MySQL-Server
+  - `$DB_NAME`                    | Name of the MySQL-Database
+  - `$DB_LOGIN`                   | Name of the database user
+  - `$DB_LOGIN_PASSWORD`          | Password to the database user
+  
+### Optional environment variables are:
+  - `$SERVER_PORT`                | Port for server communications -> Default : 2350
+  - `$SERVER_P2P_PORT`            | Port for peer2peer communication -> Default : 3450
+  - `$SERVER_SA_PASSWORD`         | Password for SuperAdmin credential -> when left empty will be randomly generated
+  - `$SERVER_ADM_PASSWORD`        | Password for Admin credential -> when left empty will be randomly generated
+  - `$SERVER_NAME`                | Server name in ingame browser -> Default : "Trackmania Server"
+  - `$SERVER_COMMENT`             | Server description -> Default : "This is a Trackmania Server"
+
+## Running this image with `docker-compose`
+I have a default docker-compose.yml included in this repository.
+You can adjust this file to your needs but running with docker-compose is more comfortable in general.