This project is going to be archived because of lack of time. There is an official Docker solution as of 2023! https://github.com/haiwen/seafile-docker

Docker Image for fully functional Seafile with SQLite

Current Seafile server version: 6.2.3

This docker image provides a fully-functional Seafile server installation that is configured with SQLite and has no other dependencies. Internally nginx is configured as a reverse proxy with can either be accessed via HTTP or HTTPs.

• The container exposes a /data volume where all seafile data is stored in a persistent manner
• Initial setup is done during first startup where setup of the administator account is created. The administrator allows to create other users.
• No user interaction needed for container startup!
• Upgrades to new seafile versions are handled internally by automatically running seafile provided upgrade scripts
• Unittests are done using bats
• Automatic Docker builds and Travis builds which run unittests

Update from older version (6.0) and missing user accounts

A bug in earlier container versions led to lost user accounts when the container is re-created (which is done during an update). Libraries still exist and can be used by re-creating the corresponding users. To prevent this to happen run the following command in your container before doing an upgrade from 6.0 containers:

docker exec <CONTAINER-ID> cp -r /seafile/ccnet /data/

Running container

docker run -d --name seafile_http \
	-p  "80:80" \
	-e SEAFILE_EXTERNAL_PORT=80 \
	-e SEAFILE_HOSTNAME=localhost \
	-e SEAFILE_SERVER_NAME=myseafile \
	-e [email protected] \
	-e SEAFILE_ADMIN_PASSWORD=test123 \
	-v "/tmp/seafile_http:/data" \
	stonemaster/docker-seafile-server

Running container with docker-compose

Create a docker-compose.yml file:

seafile:
    image: stonemaster/docker-seafile-server
    container_name: seafile
    ports:
        - "443:443"
    environment:
        - SEAFILE_EXTERNAL_PORT=443
        - SEAFILE_HOSTNAME=localhost
        - SEAFILE_SERVER_NAME=myseafile
        - [email protected]
        - SEAFILE_ADMIN_PASSWORD=test123
        - USE_SSL=on
    volumes:
        - /tmp/seafile:/data
        - ./test/ssl:/etc/ssl

Run docker-compose up -d.

Directory structure for Seafile

The following files are located inside the folder that is mounted to /data:

seafile_version
seahub-data
seafile-data
seahub.db

seahub-data contains the internal seafile file structure and thus the user data. seahub.db contains the SQLite database used for meta information by Seafile. seafile_version is generated by the container to store the current software version for seamingless container upgrades. seafile-data contains the actual user files.

Migration from a previous Seafile installation

Warning: this is untested!

1. Copy the seahub-data, seafile-data and seahub.db directory/files from the existing installation into your containers to-be-mounted data folder. Don't do that when the container is started!
2. Create a seafile_version file in the /data mount containing the current MAJOR.MINOR of your installation e.g. 5.0. Don't add a newline after the version.

SSL

Generating self-signed certificate

To generate a self-signed certificat using OpenSSL use this command:

openssl req -x509 -newkey rsa:4096 -keyout privkey.pem -out cert.pem -nodes -days 365

An unprotected private key will be generated using the command line option -nodes. Omit it to generate a password protected private key file. Mount these two files into the container to the folder /etc/ssl using the default SSL locations.

Using Let's Encrypt

Mount your letsencrypt folder to /etc/letsencrypt. Adapt certificate and private key filenames using the SSL_CERT_FILE and SSL_PRIVKEY_FILE environment variables. It's important that the cert file path points to fullchain.pem in order to allow the Seafile client to correctly verify the certificate.

For example add the following parameters to your docker run command:

   ... -v /etc/letsencrypt:/etc/letsencrypt \
       -e SSL_CERT_FILE=/etc/letsencrypt/live/seafile.com/fullchain.pem \
       -e SSL_PRIVKEY_FILE=/etc/letsencrypt/live/seafile.com/privkey.pem

Environment variables

SEAFILE_EXTERNAL_PORT

This port must match the port that is exposed via Docker. It is used internally by Seafile to expose it to the client for file handling.

SEAFILE_EXTERNAL_PROTOCOL

• default: automatic
• Options: http, https

Allows to override the protocol exposed by Seafile file server. If USE_SSL is to to on this is automatically determined to be https; otherwise it is http. However if a HTTPs proxy is used in front of the seafile container this may need to be adapted.

SEAFILE_HOSTNAME

This hostname must match the host the Seafile instance is running on. This hostname is exposed to clients to allow file handling. If you get errors during file uploads and downloads, check that SEAFILE_HOSTNAME and SEAFILE_EXTERNAL_PORT match your setup.

SEAFILE_SERVER_NAME

The name of the seafile server instance needed by Seafile.

SEAFILE_ADMIN_MAIL

The administator's e-mail used during initial setup. The administrator is allowed to create other accounts.

SEAFILE_ADMIN_PASSWORD

The administator's password used during initial setup.

USE_SSL

• default: off
• Options: on, off

Enables HTTP (off) or HTTPs (on). Adjust SSL_CERT_FILE and SSL_PRIVKEY_FILE environment variables if necessary to match your setup.

SSL_CERT_FILE

• default: /etc/ssl/cert.pem

The path to the SSL certificate file. Ignored when USE_SSL equals off.

SSL_PRIVKEY_FILE

• default: /etc/ssl/privkey.pem

The path to the SSL private key file. Ignored when USE_SSL equals off.

License

Boost License. See LICENSE.txt for more details.