Docker Image Updates

The Alpine Docker image has breaking changes from v2.33.0, in order to address multiple issues that have continuously affected multiple users. The changes are as follows:

• User: File Browser no longer runs as root, but as user with PID 1000 and GID 1000. You can still change this by using Docker's --user flag.
• Volumes: the volumes with the database and configuration are now aligned with the s6-overlay images. Instead of mounting the files themselves, which leads to frequent issues, you now mount the surrounding directory.

Unfortunately, these are breaking changes and will require updates on your side. Assuming you have a database.db, a .filebrowser.json and the data in /data, do the following:

1. Change the path of database in .filebrowser.json to /database/filebrowser.db
2. Rename database.db to filebrowser.db
3. Rename .filebrowser.json to settings.json
4. Put them in the same directory locally, let's say /app/filebrowser/
5. Change the permissions of both directories: sudo chown -R 1000:1000 /app/filebrowser /data
6. Mount with the flags -v /app/filebrowser:/database -v /app/filebrowser:/config - you can also choose to put them in separate directories, but it is not needed.

If you are still getting errors, please make sure that the paths/volumes you are mounting have read-write permission for user 1000:1000. For more up to date information regarding how you should use the Docker image, check filebrowser.org/installation.html#docker

Changelog

• e9bb3dc chore(release): 2.33.0
• 2e26393 feat: improved docker image volumes and permissions (#5160)