How to install FileBrowser in Docker

FileBrowser provides a file management interface on your server. A good replacement for file managers like FileZilla, WinSCP, etc. It can be used to upload, delete, preview, rename, and edit various files. There is also the ability to create users and assign them permissions. Create temporary links to files or folders.

In this article, we will look at how to install it in a Docker container, using docker-compose as well.

Installing Docker.

But first, we need to update the OS packages.

apt update

We will install the necessary packages and add a new repository:

apt install apt-transport-https ca-certificates curl gnupg-agent software-properties-common

curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg | sudo apt-key add -

add-apt-repository "deb [arch=amd64] https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu $(lsb_release -cs) stable"

We will update the packages with the new repository:

apt update

Now we will install Docker itself.

apt-get install docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io

Check the version:

docker --version

Check the status:

systemctl status docker

If it hasn't started, we start it:

systemctl start docker

And add it to autostart.

systemctl enable docker

Installing Docker-Compose

For this project, version 1.25 will be sufficient.

curl -L "https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/1.25.5/docker-compose-$(uname -s)-$(uname -m)" -o /usr/local/bin/docker-compose

Set execution permissions.

chmod +x /usr/local/bin/docker-compose

Check how Docker-Compose was installed:

docker-compose --version

Add the Linux user to the docker group:

usermod -aG docker $USER

Create a *.yaml file for Docker-Compose.

To keep track of what we have installed in the future, let's create a separate folder for this project in the /home directory and navigate to it.

mkdir /home/filebrowser && cd /home/filebrowser

You can also use another directory to place this and other projects.

We will use the repository to create the docker-compose.yaml file at the link https://hub.docker.com/r/filebrowser/filebrowser

Create a file docker-compose.yaml or docker-compose.yml,

vim docker-compose.yaml

And add the following code to it:

version: '3.3'
services:
    filebrowser:
        container_name: filebrowser
        volumes:
        - /:/srv
        - /root/filebrowser/datbase/filebrowser.db:/database/filebrowser.db
        environment:
        - PUID=0
        - PGID=0
        ports:
        - 9090:80
        restart: always
        image: filebrowser/filebrowser:s6

Where:

container_name: the name of your container;
In the volumes block, specify the paths where the database will be saved and the folder with files. In this example, / (root) is specified, which allows access to all files on the server.
ports: 9090 - the port through which the manager panel will be accessed.

Also, before starting docker-compose, create a file for the database filebrowser.db at the path specified in volumes - /root/filebrowser/database/
If this is not done, we will see an error in the logs: filebrowser.db is a directory.

Run the script (you need to be in the directory where our file was created. In this case, it is /home/filebrowser/):

docker-compose up -d

Wait for the images to download and deploy.

Check:

docker-compose ps

docker ps

You can also install FileBrowser with a single command without using docker compose.

docker run -v /:/srv -v /root/filebrowser/datbase/filebrowser.db:/database/filebrowser.db -e PUID=0 -e PGID=0 -p 9090:80 -d filebrowser/filebrowser:s6

To view the logs, use the command

docker logs -f filebrowser

Now you can use your server's IP and the port you specified, in this case, 9090, to connect to the web interface.

For authorization use:
login: admin
password: admin

Enjoy using it.

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