diff --git a/.env.sample b/.env.sample
index 32733b4..bffd9f3 100644
--- a/.env.sample
+++ b/.env.sample
@@ -4,11 +4,8 @@ SECRET_OAUTH2_SECRET_VERSION=v1
 
 COMPOSE_FILE="compose.yml"
 
-# Set this to run mongodb in replicaset mode (needs initialisation!)
-# COMPOSE_FILE="${COMPOSE_FILE}:compose.rs.yml"
-
-DOMAIN=board.${DOMAIN}
-ROOT_URL=https://board.${DOMAIN}
+DOMAIN=board.example.org
+ROOT_URL=https://board.example.org
 
 DEBUG=false
 
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 7f374e4..624d723 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -35,7 +35,4 @@ needed to enable oplog setting in wekan, which isneeded to run bigger instances?
 
 after mongo conaintainer came up the first time run:
 
-```
-abra app run wekan.example.org db mongo
-> rs.initiate() 
-```
\ No newline at end of file
+abra app command wekan.example.org db init_db
diff --git a/abra.sh b/abra.sh
index ba539d4..b9cb142 100644
--- a/abra.sh
+++ b/abra.sh
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 export SECRET_OAUTH2_SECRET_VERSION=v1
 export ENTRYPOINT_VERSION=v2
+export INIT_REPLICA_VERSION=v2
diff --git a/backup.db b/backup.db
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ad28e40
Binary files /dev/null and b/backup.db differ
diff --git a/compose.rs.yml b/compose.rs.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index c9af041..0000000
--- a/compose.rs.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
-version: "3.8"
-
-services:
-  db:
-    command: mongod --oplogSize 128 --replSet rs0 
-
-  app:
-    environment:
-      - MONGO_URL=mongodb://db:27017/wekan?replicaSet=rs01
-      - MONGO_OPLOG_URL=mongodb://db:27017/local?replicaSet=rsWekan=value
diff --git a/compose.yml b/compose.yml
index ffa9cc3..e44673e 100644
--- a/compose.yml
+++ b/compose.yml
@@ -2,11 +2,15 @@ version: '3.8'
 services:
   db:
     image: mongo:4.4
-    command: mongod --oplogSize 128 --replSet rs0 
+    command: mongod --bind_ip_all --oplogSize 128 --replSet rs0
     volumes:
       - wekan-db:/data/db
     networks:
       - internal
+    configs:
+      - source: init-replica
+        target: /docker-entrypoint-initdb.d/init-replica.sh
+        mode: 0555
     healthcheck:
       test:  echo 'db.runCommand("ping").ok' | mongo localhost:27017/test --quiet
       interval: 30s
@@ -23,8 +27,8 @@ services:
   app:
     image: quay.io/wekan/wekan:v6.28
     environment:
-      - MONGO_URL
-      - MONGO_OPLOG_URL
+      - MONGO_URL=mongodb://db:27017/wekan?replicaSet=rs0
+      - MONGO_OPLOG_URL=mongodb://db:27017/local?replicaSet=rs0
       - DOMAIN
       - ROOT_URL
       - DEBUG
@@ -100,7 +104,9 @@ configs:
   entrypoint:
     name: ${STACK_NAME}_entrypoint_${ENTRYPOINT_VERSION}
     file: entrypoint.sh.tmpl
-    template_driver: golang
+  init-replica:
+    name: ${STACK_NAME}_init-replica_${INIT_REPLICA_VERSION}
+    file: init-replica.sh
 
 secrets:
   oauth2_secret:
diff --git a/init-replica.sh b/init-replica.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9792bcf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/init-replica.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+set -e
+
+#host=${HOSTNAME:-$(hostname -f)}
+# shut down again
+#mongod --pidfilepath /tmp/docker-entrypoint-temp-mongod.pid --shutdown
+
+# # restart again binding to 0.0.0.0 to allow a replset with 10.7.7.6
+# mongod --oplogSize 8 --replSet rs0 --noauth \
+#    --config /tmp/docker-entrypoint-temp-config.json \
+#    --bind_ip 0.0.0.0 --port 27017 \
+#    --tlsMode disabled \
+#    --logpath /proc/1/fd/1 --logappend \
+#    --pidfilepath /tmp/docker-entrypoint-temp-mongod.pid --fork
+
+# init replset with defaults
+mongo  0.0.0.0 --eval "rs.initiate()"
+
+echo "Waiting to become a master"
+echo 'while (!db.isMaster().ismaster) { sleep(100); }' | mongo
+echo "I'm the master!"