Seafile Server Docker image

Seafile docker image based on Debian

Seafile is an open source storage system which can be self hosting for more privacy

Features

• Auto configuration on first run, based on the manual setup described in the official documentation
• Auto import previous installation, including non docker installation
• Support FASTCGI mode (this mode is no longer supported by Seafile since version 6.3.1)
• Upgrade Seafile with one simple command
• Support LDAP configuration
• Support reverse proxy configuration
• Support MySQL and Sqlite

Supported tags

Tags, based on Semantic Versioning, follow the schema x.y.z-a where x.y.z is the version of Seafile and a is an increment to follow features and bug fix of this image

• latest Development version, may be unstable
• 8.0.3 Updated Seafile version, migrated to Python 3 and changed bases image to slim-buster
• 6.3.4 Updated Seafile version
• 6.3.3 Updated Seafile version
• 6.3.2-1 Fixed issue in proxy configuration
• 6.3.2 Updated Seafile version
• 6.3.1-1 Added Sqlite support
              Complete rewrite to easily add more configuration
              Fixed issue when upgrading (empty cache)
• 6.3.1 Updated Seafile version
• 6.2.5 Updated Seafile version
• 6.1.2-2 Added reverse proxy configuration
• 6.1.2-1 Added LDAP configuration (thanks to zsoerenm)
• 6.1.2 Updated Seafile version
• 6.1.1 Updated Seafile version

Detailed Configuration

• Ports

  • 8000 (seafile port)
  • 8082 (seahub port)

• Volume

  • This image exposes only one volume

    • /seafile

  • Directory Structure

          ├── ccnet
          │   └── seafile.ini
          │
          ├── conf
          │   ├── ccnet.conf
          │   ├── seafdav.conf
          │   ├── seafile.conf
          │   ├── seahub_settings.py
          │   └── seahub_settings.pyc
          │
          ├── logs
          │   ├── ccnet.log
          │   ├── controller.log
          │   ├── seafile.log
          │   ├── seahub.log
          │   └── seahub_django_request.log
          │
          ├── seafile-data
          │
          ├── seahub
          │   └── media
          │
          ├── seahub-data
          │
          └── sqlite
              └── seahub.db
          
  

  • The folder seafile/seahub/media must be shared with Apache/Nginx when running behind a reverse proxy

• Environment variables

  • Seafile

    • SERVER_NAME (default is seafile): name of the server
    • SERVER_ADDRESS (default is 127.0.0.1): IP or domain name of the server
    • FASTCGI (default is false): If true or True then run seafile in fastcgi mode
    • SEAFILE_ADMIN (required): email for the admin account
    • SEAFILE_ADMIN_PASSWORD (required): password for the admin account

  • MySQL/Sqlite

    By default Seafile is configured to use Sqlite unless MYSQL_SERVER is set

    • MYSQL_SERVER: MySQL/Maria DB Server name or ip
    • MYSQL_PORT (default is 3306): port used by the database server
    • MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD (required if MYSQL_SERVER is set): root user is needed by Seafile to create its own databases
    • MYSQL_USER (required if MYSQL_SERVER is set): MYSQL user used by Seafile
    • MYSQL_USER_PASSWORD (required i MYSQL_SERVER is set): password for MYSQL_USER
    • MYSQL_CCNET_DB (default is ccnet-db): name of CCNET database
    • MYSQL_SEAFILE_DB (default is seafile-db): name of SEAFILE database
    • MYSQL_SEAHUB_DB (default is seahub-db): name of SEAHUB database

  • LDAP

    • LDAP_URL : LDAP URL (e.g. ldap://openldap)
    • LDAP_BASE (required if LDAP_URL is set): LDAP BASE (e.g. ou=people,dc=example,dc=org)
    • LDAP_LOGIN_ATTR (required if LDAP_URL is set): LDAP Login attribute (e.g. mail)
    • LDAP_USER_DN (optional): LDAP user DN (e.g. cn=admin,dc=example,dc=org)
    • LDAP_PASSWORD (optional): LDAP user password

  • Reverse proxy

    • REVERSE_PROXY_MODE (value=HTTP or HTTPS): configure Seafile to run behind a reverse proxy.

docker-compose.yml example

version: '2'
services:
  seafile:
    image: sabaitech/seafile
    container_name: seafile
    ports:
     - "8000:8000"
     - "8082:8082"
    environment:
     - SERVER_ADDRESS=my.domain.com
     - REVERSE_PROXY_MODE=HTTPS
     - FASTCGI=true
     - MYSQL_SERVER=mariadb
     - MYSQL_USER=seafile
     - MYSQL_USER_PASSWORD=test
     - MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=passw0rd!
     - [email protected]
     - SEAFILE_ADMIN_PASSWORD=passw00rd
     - LDAP_URL=ldap://openldap
     - LDAP_BASE=ou=people,dc=example,dc=org
     - LDAP_LOGIN_ATTR=mail
     - LDAP_USER_DN=cn=admin,dc=example,dc=org
     - LDAP_PASSWORD=ldap_passw0rd
    volumes:
     - ./seafile:/seafile
    depends_on:
     - mariadb

  mariadb:
    image: mariadb:10.1
    container_name: mariadb
    ports:
     - "3306:3306"
    environment:
      - MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=passw0rd!
      - MYSQL_USER=seafile
      - MYSQL_PASSWORD=test
    volumes:
      - ./mysql/db:/var/lib/mysql

and just run docker-compose up -d

Restoring a previous installation

If you already have a previous installation of Seafile server (including non docker installation) and want to use this image you just have to:

1. Put conf, logs, seafile-data directories in the associated volume
2. Run docker-compose up -d

Supported commands

You can start, stop, restart seafile and seahub with a command like :

      docker-compose exec seafile server command

where:

• seafile is the name of the service defined in docker-compose.yml file

• server is seafile or seahub

• command is start, stop, restart

Upgrading Seafile server

To upgrade the current version of Seafile server, you just have to run the following command:

      docker-compose exec seafile upgrade 6.3.1

where:

• seafile is the name of the service defined in docker-compose.yml file

• 6.3.1 is the new version

Once you have upgraded the server, you can change the version of the image in the docker-compose.yml file to keep the change permanently.

Garbage Collector

To remove unused data blocks, you can run the garbage collector:

      docker-compose exec seafile gc

It will stop Seafile server, run the garbage collector, and then restart Seafile

Check, Repair and Export Libraries

Seafile comes with a tool to check the integrity, to repair the corrupted or to export libraries. To run this tools, you can execute:

      docker-compose exec seafile fsck

It a simple shortcut to seaf-fsck.sh. The manual describes all the options of this tool