My adventure to build a new Seafile v11 bare metal server continues and it’s rare that I find anything quite this complicated in 45 years of computing! I’m battling on as I like the challenge and boy is it teaching me about Debian Linux. Anyway, I got a standalone Seafile 11 Pro system running on a new Debian server. That was quite a long journey…
But the next task was to get it working with Nginx reverse proxy as a) want it on port 80 and b) accessing via port 8000 external just worries people. I struck out trying to find this specific requirement on here so I thought, what the heck, I’ll ask Grok. It drew a blank first (not entirely surprised) but told if to think harder 
And voila! It came up with the goods. And it actually worked first time. AI is both scary and very, very impressive. Anyway, here is the Nginx configuration. Not running on SSL so that’s the next task but certbot usually does good here!
server {
listen 80;
server_name yourdomain.co.uk;
server_tokens off;
# Seahub (web interface)
location / {
proxy_pass http://debian13lab:8000/; # Replace with your Seafile server IP:port
proxy_set_header Host $host;
proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
proxy_http_version 1.1;
proxy_connect_timeout 3600s;
proxy_read_timeout 3600s;
proxy_send_timeout 3600s;
send_timeout 3600s;
client_max_body_size 0; # For large file uploads/edits
access_log /var/log/nginx/seahub.access.log;
error_log /var/log/nginx/seahub.error.log;
}
# File upload/download (seafhttp)
location /seafhttp {
rewrite ^/seafhttp(.*)$ $1 break;
proxy_pass http://debian13lab:8082; # Replace with your Seafile server IP:port
proxy_set_header Host $host;
proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
proxy_http_version 1.1;
proxy_connect_timeout 3600s;
proxy_read_timeout 3600s;
proxy_send_timeout 3600s;
send_timeout 3600s;
client_max_body_size 0;
proxy_request_buffering off;
access_log /var/log/nginx/seafhttp.access.log;
error_log /var/log/nginx/seafhttp.error.log;
}
# Static media (proxied to remote Seahub)
location /media {
proxy_pass http://debian13lab:8000/media; # Replace with your Seafile server IP:port
proxy_set_header Host $host;
proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
proxy_http_version 1.1;
access_log /var/log/nginx/seafmedia.access.log;
error_log /var/log/nginx/seafmedia.error.log;
}
# SeaDAV/WebDAV (optional)
location /seafdav {
proxy_pass http://debian13lab:8080/seafdav; # Replace with your Seafile server IP:port
proxy_set_header Host $host;
proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
proxy_http_version 1.1;
proxy_connect_timeout 3600s;
proxy_read_timeout 3600s;
proxy_send_timeout 3600s;
send_timeout 3600s;
client_max_body_size 0;
proxy_request_buffering off;
access_log /var/log/nginx/seafdav.access.log;
error_log /var/log/nginx/seafdav.error.log;
}
}
