Deploy Seafile Server Through Docker

Recommended Server Minimums

• 2 Cores
• 2GB or more for memory.
• 1GB for swap if possible.

If you have 4GB+ of memory, you probably don't need the swap.

Steps

Firstly install docker and install install docker compose.

Create Docker Compose File

Copy and paste the following docker-compose.yml file to your server:

services:

  seafile:
    image: seafileltd/seafile-mc:${SEAFILE_VERSION}
    container_name: seafile
    ports:
      - "80:80"
      - "443:443"
    volumes:
      - ./volumes/seafile-data:/shared
    logging:
      driver: "local"
      options:
        max-size: "10m"
        max-file: "3"
    restart: always
    environment:
      - DB_HOST=db
      - DB_ROOT_PASSWD=${DB_ROOT_PASSWORD}
      - TIME_ZONE
      - SEAFILE_ADMIN_EMAIL
      - SEAFILE_ADMIN_PASSWORD
      - SEAFILE_SERVER_HOSTNAME=${SEAFILE_FQDN}
      - SEAFILE_SERVER_LETSENCRYPT=false
      #- FORCE_HTTPS_IN_CONF=true
    depends_on:
      - db
      - memcached

  db:
    image: mariadb:${MARIADB_VERSION}
    container_name: seafile-mysql
    restart: always
    logging:
      driver: "local"
      options:
        max-size: "10m"
        max-file: "3"
    environment:
      - MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=${DB_ROOT_PASSWORD}
      - MYSQL_LOG_CONSOLE=true
    volumes:
      - ./volumes/seafile-db:/var/lib/mysql

  memcached:
    image: memcached:${MEMCACHED_VERSION}
    container_name: seafile-memcached
    restart: always
    logging:
      driver: "local"
      options:
        max-size: "10m"
        max-file: "3"
    command:
      - --conn-limit=1024
      - --memory-limit=128
      - --threads=4

... then create a .env file at the same level with the following settings, and fill them in:

# Specify the namespace of this service. Feel free to ignore this.
COMPOSE_PROJECT_NAME="seafile"


# Specify software versions.
SEAFILE_VERSION="11.0.13"
MARIADB_VERSION="10.11-jammy"
MEMCACHED_VERSION="1.5.6"


# Specify a strong random root password for the database
DB_ROOT_PASSWORD=""


# Specify the email and password of your first admin user. You will
# use these to log in for the first time.
SEAFILE_ADMIN_EMAIL="me@mydomain.com"
SEAFILE_ADMIN_PASSWORD=""


# Specify the URL of your seafile server
SEAFILE_FQDN="seafile.mydomain.com"


# Set the timezone, this is not that important.
TIME_ZONE="Etc/UTC"

A Note On Volumes

I used bind mounted volumes rather than named volumes for the seafile data and the database. This allows you to easily change the path if you need to use different disks. E.g. you may wish to have a server with an SSD and an HDD, and have the database on the SSD, with the seafile data on the HDD for cheap storage.

If you don't understand anything I just said, you probably want to just continue as-is.

Deploy!

Run the following command to deploy

docker-compose up

If you need to deploy "silently" and not see the output and tie-up your terminal, then you can use:

docker-compose up -d

CSRF Fix

On my fresh deployment, I got a CRSF error when I tried to log in. I found that I had to manually add the following to the seahub_settings.conf file in order to have seafile to work:

CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS = ['https://seafile.pthub3.com']

More info.

Debugging

If you continue to hit issues, add the following line to your seahub_settings.conf file:

DEBUG=True

This helps a lot.

References

• Seafile Docs - Deploy Seafile with Docker