cmer/seafile repository overview

Seafile Community or Professional Edition Docker container based on Ubuntu

⁠Features

• Tailored to use the newest Seafile version at rebuild (so it should always be up-to-date)
• Ability to lock the installation to a specific version
• Running under dumb-init to prevent the "child reaping problem"
• Configurable to run with MySQL/MariaDB or SQLite
• Auto-setup at initial run
• Allows usage of Community or Professional Edition

⁠Quickstart

If you want to run with SQLite:

docker run -d -e SEAFILE_NAME=Seaflail \
    -e SEAFILE_ADDRESS=seafile.example.org \
    -e [email protected] \
    -e SEAFILE_ADMIN_PW=LoremIpsum \
    -v /home/data/seafile:/seafile \
  cmer/seafile

If you want to use MySQL:

docker run -d -e SEAFILE_NAME=Seaflail \
    -e SEAFILE_ADDRESS=seafile.example.org \
    -e [email protected] \
    -e SEAFILE_ADMIN_PW=LoremIpsum \
  -e MYSQL_SERVER=172.17.0.2 \
  -e MYSQL_USER=seafile \
  -e MYSQL_USER_PASSWORD=Seafail \
  -e MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=hunter2 \
    -v /home/data/seafile:/seafile \
  cmer/seafile

⁠Overview

Filetree:

/seafile/ |-- ccnet |-- conf |-- seafile-data -- seahub-data /opt/ -- haiwen |-- ccnet -> /seafile/ccnet |-- conf -> /seafile/conf |-- logs |-- pids |-- seafile-data -> /seafile/seafile-data |-- seafile-server-5.1.3 |-- seafile-server-latest -> seafile-server-5.1.3 `-- seahub-data -> /seafile/seahub-data

All important data is stored under /seafile, so you should be mounting a volume there (recommended) or at the respective subdirectories. This will not happen automatically! There are a plethora of environment variables which might be needed for your setup. I recommend using Dockers --env-file option.

Mandatory ENV variables for auto setup

• SEAFILE_NAME: Name of your Seafile installation
• SEAFILE_ADDRESS: URL to your Seafile installation
• SEAFILE_ADMIN: E-mail address of the Seafile admin
• SEAFILE_ADMIN_PW: Password of the Seafile admin

If you want to use MySQL/MariaDB, the following variables are needed:

Mandatory ENV variables for MySQL/MariaDB

• MYSQL_SERVER: Address of your MySQL server
• MYSQL_USER: MySQL user Seafile should use
• MYSQL_USER_PASSWORD: Password for said MySQL User

Optional:

• MYSQL_PORT: Port MySQL runs on

Optional ENV variables for auto setup with MySQL/MariaDB

• MYSQL_USER_HOST: Host the MySQL User is allowed from (default: '%')
• MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: If you haven't set up the MySQL tables by yourself, Seafile will do it for you when being provided with the MySQL root password

Optional ENV variable to use the Professional edition of Seafile

• PRO: Download and run Pro (default: false)

Other optional ENV variables

• FORCE_PERMISSIONS: Force chown'ing Seafile mounted volume at startup. This is slow. Only use if needed. (default: false)
• VERSION: Version number to install (default: latest)
• ARCH: CPU Architecture. x86-64 or i386. (defaults to Linux installation architecture)

If you plan on omitting /seafile as a volume and mount the subdirectories instead, you'll need to additionally specify SEAHUB_DB_DIR which contains the subdirectory of /seafile the seahub.db file shall be put in.

There are some more variables which could be changed but have not been tested and are probably not fully functional as well. Therefore those not mentioned here. Inspect the seafile-entrypoint.sh script if you have additional needs for customization.

⁠Migration to Professional Edition

If you have a Professional Edition license file, you must place it in the directory that is mounted as /seafile inside the container. For example: /home/data/seafile/seafile-license.txt on the Docker host.

For further instructions, see Migrate from Seafile Community Server⁠.

⁠Web server

This container does not include a web server. It's intended to be run behind a reverse proxy. You can read more about that in the Seafile manual: http://manual.seafile.com/deploy/⁠

If you want to run SeaHub in FastCGI mode, you can set ENV variables SEAFILE_FASTCGI=1 and SEAFILE_FASTCGI_HOST=0.0.0.0

⁠Credits

Special thanks to Till Wiese⁠. This container is a fork of his work. He deserves all the credit.