Ah, this makes sense now. I was wondering why it hadn't been updated in a while, that was my only hangup.

When the stable release is published, it's honestly a no brainer. Although Filestash is a good alternative too.

Trying to set that up to try out, but I can't get it to see/use my config.yaml.

/srv/filebrowser-new/data/config.yaml

volumes:

• /srv/filebrowser-new/data:/config
  environment:
• FILEBROWSER_CONFIG="/config/config.yaml"

Says '/config/config.yaml' doesn't exist and will not start. Same thing if I mount the config file directly, instead of just its folder.

If I remove the env var, it changes to "could not open config file 'config.yaml', using default settings" and starts at least. From there I can 'ls -l' through docker exec and see that my config is mounted exactly where it's supposed to be '/config/config.yaml' and has 777 perms, but filebrowser insists it doesn't exist...

My config is just the example for now.

I don't understand what I could possibly be doing wrong.

/edit: three hours of messing around and I figured it out:

• FILEBROWSER_CONFIG="/config/config.yaml"

Must not have quotation marks. Removed them and now it's working.

Must not have quotation marks. Removed them and now it's working.

Man that's finicky...

It's just a YAML thing, if you do FILEBROWSER_CONFIG:"/config/config.yaml" instead it might work with quotes.

Dev replied to my github discussion.

Apparently it's an issue with array style env variable layout.

environment:
    key:"value"

Instead of

environment:
    - key=value

Reckon I can get this going somewhere where I don't have sudo?

I was going to query why fork instead of just maintaining, but after reading theose comments I see the problem.

So, ok, I need to start shifting packages...

I doubt it, why dont you have sudo?

Ive had some good experience with filestash but recently they swapped to collabora which brought me a host of headaches.

The Dev is awesome though.

So it's a YAML quirk then?

I'm not sure whether this is specific to this project, docker, or YAML in general.

Looking through my other 20 or so compose files, I use the array notation for most of my environment variables, but I don't have any double quotation marks elsewhere. Maybe they're not supposed to work in this format, idk.

Good to keep in mind I guess.

Not my server, it's a shared one I have a http server and some files on. I want a nice frontend. I've used all in one php ones with some success, but this looks nicer.