Seafile Docker with Apache reverse proxy

Seafile Server
1

I’m using the official seafile docker setup on my server with the following command:

docker run -u root -d \
    --name seafile \
    -e SEAFILE_SERVER_HOSTNAME=files.example.com \
    -v /opt/seafile-data:/shared \
    -p 22080:80 \
    seafileltd/seafile:latest

On my ISPConfig I have created a new site with LetsEncrypt certificate, HTTP to HTTPS rewrite and the following apache directives:

ProxyRequests Off
ProxyPreserveHost On
AllowEncodedSlashes NoDecode
<Proxy *>
	Order deny,allow
	Allow from all
</Proxy>
ProxyPass               /  http://localhost:22080/ nocanon
ProxyPassReverse  /  http://localhost:22080/
ProxyPassReverse  /  http://files.example.com/
RequestHeader set X-Forwarded-Proto "https"
RequestHeader set X-Forwarded-Port "443"

Everything is working fine, except the file upload. When I upload a file I’m getting “Unknown error”. Did I missed something in my setup? I have not changed something in the seafile configs yet.

Thanks in advance!

2

The Seafile Docker container already contains nginx. So you have to set it up to run over nginx. So you maybe have a problem with the locations. You should look how to run Apache over nginx.

3

I’ve got the same problem.
With apache reverse proxy + seafile docker, everything is fine except uploading the files.
Creating and deleting files works well.
@mo-mueller Did you solve this issue?

4

Same issue

5

I got a ConnectionError when uploading files on seafile-docker instance. The reason was the URL given in “Admin Settings” → “Settings” → “FILE_SERVER_ROOT” (usually something like “…/seafhttp”) was not configured properly. Here is the Apache VirtualHost file I put on the server / host that fixed this (Sorry I had to obfuscate the URLs):

<VirtualHost *:80>
RewriteEngine on
ServerName seafile dot myserver dot com
ProxyPreserveHost On
ProxyRequests Off

ProxyPass /seafhttp httpcolonslashslashlocalhost:34539
ProxyPassReverse /seafhttp httpcolonslashslashlocalhost:34539
RewriteRule ^/seafhttp - [QSA,L]

ProxyPass / httpcolonslashslashlocalhost:34538/
ProxyPassReverse / httpcolonslashslashlocalhost:34538/
</VirtualHost>

And here is the relevant configuration changes in my docker-compose.yml

seafile:
    image: seafileltd/seafile-mc:latest
    container_name: seafile
    ports:
      - "34538:80"
      - "34539:8082"
    environment:
      - SEAFILE_SERVER_LETSENCRYPT=false

So I published the port “8082” of the container to port “34539” on the server. Any request to seafile dot myserver dot com/seafhttp will be forwarded to the port “34539”.
This is the basic configuration, you might want to add HTTPS with letsencrypt / certbot or manually.