FileRun installation using Docker
1. Install Docker
Please see https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/
2. Create the FileRun "docker-compose.yml" file
Create a text file named docker-compose.yml
:
vim docker-compose.yml
and paste the following inside, adjusting the settings accordingly to your needs:
version: '2' services: db: image: mariadb:10.1 environment: MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: your_mysql_root_password MYSQL_USER: your_filerun_username MYSQL_PASSWORD: your_filerun_password MYSQL_DATABASE: your_filerun_database volumes: - /filerun/db:/var/lib/mysql web: image: filerun/filerun:8.1 environment: FR_DB_HOST: db FR_DB_PORT: 3306 FR_DB_NAME: your_filerun_database FR_DB_USER: your_filerun_username FR_DB_PASS: your_filerun_password APACHE_RUN_USER: www-data APACHE_RUN_USER_ID: 33 APACHE_RUN_GROUP: www-data APACHE_RUN_GROUP_ID: 33 depends_on: - db links: - db:db ports: - "80:80" volumes: - /filerun/html:/var/www/html - /filerun/user-files:/user-files
Please note the above volumes
configuration. There are two folders you need to configure.
One for the FileRun application files (it can be located in any empty folder and must have the mount path set to /var/www/html
) and one for the FileRun user files, with the mount path set to /user-files
.
In other words, if you use the above configuration text as it is, you just need to create two empty folders, /filerun/html
and /filerun/user-files
and you can starting the FileRun Docker container up:
mkdir /filerun /filerun/html /filerun/user-files /filerun/db
3. Download and place the FileRun application files
Login to your FileRun client account by using this link: https://filerun.com/client-area/client-area-orders
It will take you to “Your Licenses”. That is where you will be able to download the FileRun application files in a zip archive.
Upload the zip archive to your server, inside where you mounted /var/www/html (for our above example, that would be /filerun/html
).
Extract the zip in the same folder.
Adjust the folder permissions to be writable by FileRun:
chown www-data:www-data -R /filerun/html/system/data
4. Start the containers
And start FileRun up using the following command:
docker compose up -d
FileRun is now ready and you can access it with your browser.
After completing the web-based installation
You will want to set the home folder path of the FileRun Superuser account to /user-files
SSL/HTTPS
Please see this guide.
Troubleshooting Desktop resync
If your desktop sync app redownload everything every time your server restarts, it may be because your Docker container is changing the device id of the volume mounts. To fix this, please use the option
$config['system']['webdav']['skip_device_id_for_etag'] = true;