Filebrowser Docker Container

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A primitive script for Starting, Stopping and Checking Status of the filebrowser docker container.

Create a directory:

mkdir $HOME/labs/docker/filebrowser/

Create one empty file:

touch HOME/labs/docker/filebrowser/filebrowser.db

Create a json file:

cat << 'EOF' > $HOME/labs/docker/filebrowser/.filebrowser.json
{
  "port": 80,
  "baseURL": "",
  "address": "",
  "log": "stdout",
  "database": "/database.db",
  "root": "/srv"
}
EOF

Copy the below script to your workstation, run:

chmod +x /home/username/bin/start-filebrowser.sh
bash home/username/bin/start-filebrowser.sh

Reference

• https://filebrowser.org/installation
• https://github.com/filebrowser/filebrowser/blob/master/.docker.json
• https://hub.docker.com/r/filebrowser/filebrowser

start-filebrowser.sh

#!/bin/bash

##################################################
#
# Docker Filebrowser Start
#
##################################################

if [ -z "$1" ];
    then
        echo "Error: Please use 'start' , 'stop' or 'status' option.";
        exit 1
fi

case "$1" in
    "start")
        # START Docker instance
        docker run --rm -dt --name filebrowser -v $HOME:/srv -v $HOME/labs/docker/filebrowser/filebrowser.db:/database.db -v $HOME/labs/docker/filebrowser/.filebrowser.json:/.filebrowser.json --user $(id -u):$(id -g) -p 8081:80 filebrowser/filebrowser
        echo "http://localhost:8081/"
    ;;
    "stop")
        # STOP Docker instance
        docker stop filebrowser
        echo "Stopped!!!"
    ;;
    "status")
        # Provide docker status
        docker container ls -f NAME=filebrowser
    ;;
    *) echo 'you provided a invalid command' ;;
esac