seafile-containerized/README.dev.md

About

• Docker is an open source project to pack, ship and run any Linux application in a lighter weight, faster container than a traditional virtual machine.

• Docker makes it much easier to deploy a Seafile server on your servers and keep it updated.

• The base image configures Seafile with the Seafile team's recommended optimal defaults.

Getting Started

Generate seafile image, and run the image.

sudo git clone https://github.com/haiwen/seafile-docker.git /var/seafile/
cd /var/seafile/image

make base
make server
docker run -d --name seafile-server -v /root/seafile:/shared -p 80:80 seafileltd/seafile:6.2.1

Now visit http://hostname or https://hostname to open Seafile Web UI.

If you are not familiar with docker commands, refer to docker documentation.

How to use

Custom admin username and password

The default account is me@example.com and the password is asecret. You must change the password when you first run the seafile server. If you forget the admin password, you can add a new admin account and then go to the sysadmin panel to reset user password.

Domain

You can create /shared/bootstrap.conf, write the following lines.

[server]
server.hostname = seafile.example.com

And then restart service, nginx will update up config.

Modify configurations

The config files are under shared/seafile/conf. You can modify the configurations according to Seafile manual

After modification, run the new docker container:

docker rm -f seafile-server
docker run -d --name seafile-server -v /root/seafile:/shared -p 80:80 seafileltd/seafile:6.2.1

Find logs

The seafile logs are under shared/logs/seafile.

The system logs are under shared/logs/var-log.

Add a new Admin

Enter the command below.

docker exec -it seafile-server /opt/seafile/seafile-server-latest/reset-admin.sh

Enter the username and password according to the prompts.You now have a new admin account.

Directory Structure

/bootstrap

This directory is for container definitions for your Seafile containers. You are in charge of this directory, it ships empty.

/samples

Sample container definitions you may use to bootstrap your environment. You can copy templates from here into the bootstrap directory.

/shared

Placeholder spot for shared volumes. You may elect to store certain persistent information outside of a container, in our case we keep various logfiles and upload directory outside. This allows you to rebuild containers easily without losing important information.

• /shared/db: This is the data directory for mysql server
• /shared/seafile: This is the directory for seafile server configuration and data.
• /shared/logs: This is the directory for logs.
  • /shared/logs/var-log: This is the directory that would be mounted as /var/log inside the container. For example, you can find the nginx logs in shared/logs/var-log/nginx/.
  • /shared/logs/seafile: This is the directory that would contain the log files of seafile server processes. For example, you can find seaf-server logs in shared/logs/seafile/seafile.log.
• /shared/ssl: This is directory for certificate, which does not exist by default.
• /shared/bootstrap.conf: This file does not exist by default. You can create it by your self, and write the configuration of files similar to the samples folder.

/templates

Various jinja2 templates used for seafile server configuration.

/image

Dockerfiles for Seafile.

The Docker repository will always contain the latest built version at: https://hub.docker.com/r/seafileltd/seafile/, you should not need to build the base image.

Container Configuration

Let's encrypt SSL certificate

If you set server.letsencrypt to true, the bootstrap script would request a letsencrypt-signed SSL certificate for you.

server.letsencrypt = true

If you want to use your own SSL certificate:

• create a folder 'shared/ssl', and put your certificate and private key under the ssl directory.
• Assume your site name is "seafile.example.com", then your certificate must have the name "seafile.example.com.crt", and the private key must have the name "seafile.example.com.key".

Upgrading Seafile Server

ensure same version of the repo, and run start commanddocker run -d --name seafile-server -v /root/seafile:/shared -p 80:80 seafileltd/seafile:6.2.1 , which would keep your seafile server up to date.

Troubleshooting

You can run the command as "docker logs" or "docker exec" to find errors.

Developing with Vagrant

If you are looking to make modifications to this repository, you can easily test out your changes before committing, using the magic of Vagrant. Install Vagrant as per the default instructions, and then run:

vagrant up

This will spawn a new Ubuntu VM, install Docker, and then await your instructions. You can then SSH into the VM with vagrant ssh, become root with sudo -i, and then you're right to go. Your live git repo is already available at /var/seafile, so you can just cd /var/seafile and then start running launcher.

Special Thanks

Lots of the design of this repo is borrowed from the excellent discourse-docker project. Thanks for their insipiration!

License

Apache