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Filestash Filestash

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Files

A Dropbox-like file manager that let you manage your data anywhere it is located.

Image details

Pulls: 12.3M
Architecture: amd64, arm64, arm64/v8
Image size: 273 MB
User: machines
Created: Nov 27, 2018
Updated: 3 hours ago
Status: active

Configuration

Type
Compose
Platform
linux
Image
machines/filestash:latest
Volumes
/etc/localtime : /etc/localtime/app/data/state : /portainer/Files/AppData/Config/filestash/data/mnt/MYSMBMOUNT : /mnt/MYSMBMOUNT
Env vars
APPLICATION_URL=MYHOSTIP
Restart
unless-stopped
Source
Repo

Template by xneo1·Source

Standalone Install

Select an install method, to see config/commands for deploying Filestash

Installation method

Install on Portainer

Import all app templates into your Portainer instance, for easy 1-click deploys

  1. Ensure both Docker and Portainer are installed, and up-to-date
  2. Log into your Portainer web UI
  3. Under Settings → App Templates, paste the below URL
  4. Head to Home → App Templates, and the list of apps will show up
  5. Select Filestash, fill in any config options, and hit Deploy

Template Import URL

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Lissy93/portainer-templates/main/templates.json
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Original stackfile

The compose file this template deploys, straight from its repo:

services:
  filestash:
    container_name: filestash
    hostname: filestash
    image: machines/filestash:latest
    restart: unless-stopped
    expose:
      - 8334                                      # Web UI
    environment:
      - APPLICATION_URL=MYHOSTIP  # Your host LAN IP
    volumes:
      - /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro
      - /portainer/Files/AppData/Config/filestash/data:/app/data/state
      - /mnt/MYSMBMOUNT:/mnt/MYSMBMOUNT:shared    # Your SMB mount

Or deploy it directly from the source:

git clone https://github.com/xneo1/portainer_templates
cd portainer_templates
docker compose -f Template/Stack/filestash.yml up -d

More install options in our documentation.

Filestash is web application that's used as a file manager to manage your data using: FTP • FTPS • SFTP • WebDAV • Git • S3 • LDAP • Mysql • CardDAV • CalDAV • Backblaze B2 • Minio • Dropbox • Google Drive

Check the logs first

Nine times out of ten the logs tell you exactly what went wrong.

  • In Portainer, go to Containers, click the container, then Logs. Or run docker logs <container>
  • Exit codes help too: 137 means killed, usually out of memory. 126 or 127 means the command inside the image is broken.

Permission denied on volumes

If the logs show "permission denied", the app can't write to its data folder on the host.

  • Fix the ownership: sudo chown -R 1000:1000 /etc/localtime (and the same for the other mapped folders)

Image won't pull

Test the pull directly on the host: docker pull machines/filestash:latest

  • "manifest unknown" means the tag no longer exists. This template uses latest, so try pinning a specific version instead.
  • "toomanyrequests" is the Docker Hub rate limit. Log in with docker login to raise it.
  • "no space left on device" means a full disk. Reclaim space with docker system prune

"exec format error"

This means the image was built for a different CPU architecture than your server.

  • This image supports: amd64, arm64, arm64/v8
  • Check yours with uname -m: x86_64 is amd64, aarch64 is arm64. Raspberry Pi and other ARM boards are the usual culprits.

Container keeps restarting

The unless-stopped restart policy relaunches the app after every crash, so the real error can scroll past.

  • Check the logs right after a restart, the last few lines before it died are the useful ones.
  • Get the exit code with docker inspect <container> --format '{{.State.ExitCode}}'
  • Still stuck? Redeploy once with the restart policy set to no so the failure stays visible.

Stack won't deploy

Compose stacks fail fast on small mistakes, and Portainer shows the reason just above the editor.

  • YAML only accepts spaces for indentation, a single tab breaks the whole file.

Raise an issue

Found something which isn't working as it should? Here's how to report it.

A Compose stack

Filestash is a Compose stack, a set of containers defined in one file and brought up together by Portainer, then started and stopped as a single app.

The app image

An image is the app packed up ready to go, everything Filestash needs bundled into one download. This template pulls machines/filestash:latest, which Docker fetches once (about 273 MB) and then starts your own copy from.

Where the image comes from

Docker pulls its images from registries, public libraries of ready-built apps. Filestash's comes from Docker Hub, published by machines.

Version tags

The bit after the colon in the image name is the version tag. Here it's latest, which always points at the newest build, so a redeploy can bump you to a newer release without you asking. Pin a specific tag if you would rather stay on one version.

Which machines it runs on

Every image is built for particular CPU types. This one ships for amd64, arm64, arm64/v8, so it runs on both regular x86 servers and ARM boards like a Raspberry Pi.

Volumes

A volume is where Filestash keeps its files so they survive an update or a restart. Without one, anything it saves would sit inside the container and vanish the moment it's recreated. This template mounts:

  • /etc/localtime from /etc/localtime on the host
  • /app/data/state from /portainer/Files/AppData/Config/filestash/data on the host
  • /mnt/MYSMBMOUNT from /mnt/MYSMBMOUNT on the host

Environment variables

Environment variables are the settings you hand over when you deploy, things like a password or a timezone. Filestash takes 1 of them, all with defaults you can leave alone or tweak:

  • APPLICATION_URL, defaults to MYHOSTIP

Restart policy

The restart policy here is unless-stopped, so Docker restarts Filestash after a crash or reboot, but leaves it off when you stop it on purpose. You can change this on the deploy screen. The choices are no (never restart), on-failure (only after a crash), unless-stopped (restart unless you stop it), and always (bring it back no matter what).

Networking

Nothing custom is set, so Filestash sits on Docker's default bridge network: its own private space that reaches the outside world only through the ports it publishes.

Container name

Once it's deployed, Portainer names the container filestash. That's what you'll spot in the containers list and use in commands like docker logs filestash.

Platform

The platform is linux, the kind of system the container is built to run on. Docker and Portainer handle this on a normal Linux server.

Portainer app templates

Zooming out, this whole page comes from a Portainer app template: a short recipe telling Portainer how to set Filestash up. Add the template list to Portainer once, then deploying Filestash is a click rather than a wall of config.