Hey there,
i just managed to set up my Seafile Server on docker and i thought: it wasn’t just that straight forward.
So my old Server(Raspi2) refused to resolve DNS after a update… So i wanted to move the Seafile-Server to my NAS which has more power and much more storage. So the journey bagan…
I’ve tried to move my old Server data also to the new Cloud, but that i gave up after a while… Every one had it’s data also on his local drive and missed nothing so everyone could start over with a nice clean account 
i’m not allowed to post links because of that they are cut in pieces…
The setup looks like this:
Internet <-> Router <-> NAS(Seafile)
I also wanted to access my Router from the internet and so i wanted to make the SeafileServer available under MY.DOMAIN. COM:1234
I started with the “deploy seafile with docker” https:// download.seafile. com/ published/seafile-manual/docker/deploy%20seafile%20with%20docker.md
I downloaded the docker-compose.yml and edited it a bit
version: '3.2'
services:
db:
image: mariadb:10.1
container_name: seafile-mysql
environment:
- MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=SECRET # Requested, set the root's password of MySQL service.
- MYSQL_LOG_CONSOLE=true
volumes:
- db:/var/lib/mysql
networks:
- seafile-net
memcached:
image: memcached:1.5.6
container_name: seafile-memcached
entrypoint: memcached -m 256
networks:
- seafile-net
seafile:
image: seafileltd/seafile-mc:latest
container_name: seafile
ports:
- "1233:80"
- "1234:443" # If https is enabled, cancel the comment.
volumes:
- data:/shared # Requested, specifies the path to Seafile data persistent store.
- templates:/templates
environment:
- DB_HOST=db
- DB_ROOT_PASSWD=SECRET # Requested, the value shuold be root's password of MySQL service.
- TIME_ZONE=Etc/UTC # Optional, default is UTC. Should be uncomment and set to your local time zone.
- SEAFILE_ADMIN_EMAIL=MyMail@gmail.com # Specifies Seafile admin user, default is 'me@example.com'.
- SEAFILE_ADMIN_PASSWORD=asecret # Specifies Seafile admin password, default is 'asecret'.
- SEAFILE_SERVER_LETSENCRYPT=true # Whether to use https or not.
- SEAFILE_SERVER_HOSTNAME=MY.DOMAIN.COM # Specifies your host name if https is enabled.
depends_on:
- db
- memcached
networks:
- seafile-net
volumes:
db:
external:
name: seaf-db
data:
external:
name: seaf-data
templates:
external:
name: seaf-templates
networks:
seafile-net:
I added a few volumes defined at the bottom of the file:
db: for the Maria/MySQL db. db is linked to the external name seaf-db
data: for the data directory of Seafile. data -> seaf-data
templates: for the template dir. templates -> seaf-templates
The templates is neede because every time the server restarts the nginx config is recreated. And so the port which i added there…
Syntax and spaces are in this file important!
you should modify the following lines:
- MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=SECRET
- "1233:80"
- "1234:443"
- DB_ROOT_PASSWD=SECRET
- SEAFILE_ADMIN_EMAIL=MyMail@SomeMail.com
- SEAFILE_SERVER_HOSTNAME=MY.DOMAIN.COM
First things first:
Create the named volumes. I did it with Portainer.
On the commandline it should be something like:
docker volume create seaf-db
Next we need to set up the router, we need Port 80 for lets encrypt and Port 1234.
Port 80 needs to be accessible for Let’s encrypt to get your certificate,
and Port 1234 is your chosen Port at which your server will be accessible.
(About Let’s encrypt: there is mentioned that you can place your own certificate in /opt/seafile-data/ssl but that did not work for me…)
We need to get the templates:
https:// github. com/haiwen/seafile-docker/tree/master/image/seafile/templates
You need both files. Just download both of them.
In seafile.nginx.conf.template you need to make a little tweak:
location / {
proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8000/;
proxy_read_timeout 310s;
proxy_set_header Host $host;
to
location / {
proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8000/;
proxy_read_timeout 310s;
proxy_set_header Host $host:1234;
for that you will need to find the data folder of your previous created seaf-templates volume. Portainer showed it to me…
it will be something like:
/Path/To/docker-ce/docker_lib/volumes/seaf-templates/_data
After that we need to execute this command where we saved the docker-compose.yaml:
docker-compose up -d
After your server has launched you need to modify
vi conf/seahub_settings.py
And change
FILE_SERVER_ROOT = "https://MY.DOMAIN.COM/seafhttp"
to
FILE_SERVER_ROOT = "https://MY.DOMAIN.COM:5627/seafhttp"
vi conf/ccnet.conf
here you need to set URI and the port like:
SERVICE_URL = "https://MY.DOMAIN.COM:5627"
With a
docker-compose restart
should your server be ready
I hope this short guide will save someones time
Greetings MadMe86