https://github.com/gtsteffaniak/filebrowser
File browser Quantum is the shiny feature rich fork!
I have also used filestash with some success
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Trying to set that up to try out, but I can't get it to see/use my config.yaml.
/srv/filebrowser-new/data/config.yaml
volumes:
- /srv/filebrowser-new/data:/config environment:
- FILEBROWSER_CONFIG="/config/config.yaml"
Says '/config/config.yaml' doesn't exist and will not start. Same thing if I mount the config file directly, instead of just its folder.
If I remove the env var, it changes to "could not open config file 'config.yaml', using default settings" and starts at least. From there I can 'ls -l' through docker exec and see that my config is mounted exactly where it's supposed to be '/config/config.yaml' and has 777 perms, but filebrowser insists it doesn't exist...
My config is just the example for now.
I don't understand what I could possibly be doing wrong.
/edit: three hours of messing around and I figured it out:
- FILEBROWSER_CONFIG="/config/config.yaml"
Must not have quotation marks. Removed them and now it's working.
Must not have quotation marks. Removed them and now it's working.
Man that's finicky...
It's just a YAML thing, if you do FILEBROWSER_CONFIG:"/config/config.yaml" instead it might work with quotes.
Dev replied to my github discussion.
Apparently it's an issue with array style env variable layout.
environment:
key:"value"
Instead of
environment:
- key=valueSo it's a YAML quirk then?
I'm not sure whether this is specific to this project, docker, or YAML in general.
Looking through my other 20 or so compose files, I use the array notation for most of my environment variables, but I don't have any double quotation marks elsewhere. Maybe they're not supposed to work in this format, idk.
Good to keep in mind I guess.
When the stable release is published, it's honestly a no brainer. Although Filestash is a good alternative too.
Ive had some good experience with filestash but recently they swapped to collabora which brought me a host of headaches.
The Dev is awesome though.
I was going to query why fork instead of just maintaining, but after reading theose comments I see the problem.
So, ok, I need to start shifting packages...
Reckon I can get this going somewhere where I don't have sudo?
I doubt it, why dont you have sudo?
Not my server, it's a shared one I have a http server and some files on. I want a nice frontend. I've used all in one php ones with some success, but this looks nicer.
Ah, this makes sense now. I was wondering why it hadn't been updated in a while, that was my only hangup.
I saw this the other day as well when i was looking at filebrowsers github looking into seeing if it had SSO support. It's a shame really.