How to install Stirling PDF on Docker using docker-compose

docker-compose.yml

version: '3.3'
services:
  stirling-pdf:
    image: frooodle/s-pdf:latest
    ports:
      - '8080:8080'
    volumes:
      - ./trainingData:/usr/share/tessdata #Required for extra OCR languages
      - ./extraConfigs:/configs
      - ./customFiles:/customFiles/
      - ./logs:/logs/
    environment:
      - DOCKER_ENABLE_SECURITY=true
      - SECURITY_ENABLELOGIN=true
      - SECURITY_INITIALLOGIN_USERNAME=admin
      - SECURITY_INITIALLOGIN_PASSWORD=yourpassword
      - INSTALL_BOOK_AND_ADVANCED_HTML_OPS=false
      - LANGS=th_TH
      - UI_APP_NAME=Put any name here
      - UI_HOME_DESCRIPTION=Your locally hosted one-stop-shop for all your PDF needs.
      - UI_APP_NAVBAR_NAME=Stirling PDF
    restart: always

stirlingpdf

server {
	# replace example.com with your domain name
	# Don't forget to add domain name
	# and your server's IP in DNS Server like AWS/Route53
	
	server_name example.com;
	
	listen 80;
	listen [::]:80;

	location / {
		proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8080;
		proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;

		location = /live/websocket {
			proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8080;
			proxy_http_version 1.1;
			proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
			proxy_set_header Connection "Upgrade";
		}
	}
}

How to install Stirling PDF on Docker using docker-compose

Install Docker engine and docker-compose

Docker engine and docker compose plugin

Step 1

# Add Docker's official GPG key:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ca-certificates curl
sudo install -m 0755 -d /etc/apt/keyrings
sudo curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/debian/gpg -o /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.asc
sudo chmod a+r /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.asc

# Add the repository to Apt sources:
echo \
  "deb [arch=$(dpkg --print-architecture) signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/docker.asc] https://download.docker.com/linux/debian \
  $(. /etc/os-release && echo "$VERSION_CODENAME") stable" | \
  sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list > /dev/null
sudo apt-get update

Step 2

sudo apt-get install docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io docker-buildx-plugin docker-compose-plugin

Step 3

sudo groupadd docker
sudo usermod -aG docker $USER
newgrp docker

Step 4

sudo systemctl enable docker.service
sudo systemctl enable containerd.service

docker-compose standalone

curl -SL https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/v2.28.1/docker-compose-linux-x86_64 -o /usr/local/bin/docker-compose
sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/docker-compose
sudo ln -s /usr/local/bin/docker-compose /usr/bin/docker-compose

Install Nginx and Certbot

sudo apt-get install -y nginx
sudo apt-get install -y certbot python3-certbot-nginx

Install Thai OCR packages

sudo apt-get install -y 'tesseract-ocr-tha'

Create Folder for docker-compose.yml file

mkdir stirling-pdf && cd $_

Create File docker-compose.yml

# stirling-pdf/docker-compose.yml
sudo nano docker-compose.yml

copy code that shown in docker-compose.yml and paste

run application

docker-compose up -d

How to enable SSL (HTTPS) for Stirling PDF

Go to /etc/nginx/sites-available/ or using this command

sudo nano /etc/nginx/sites-available/stirlingpdf

Copy code from stirlingpdf as shown above and paste to it.

Sync sites-available/stirlingpdf to sites-enabled/stirlingpdf using this command

sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/stirlingpdf /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/

Run Certbot

sudo certbot --nginx