Funkwhale
Stack
A social platform to enjoy and share music.Funkwhale is a community-driven project that lets you listen and share music and audio within a decentralized, open network.
Image details
Configuration
TypeComposelinuxfunkwhale/all-in-one:1.2.105000:80/data : /portainer/Files/AppData/Config/funkwhale/data/music : /portainer/multimedia/music/dirPUID=1000PGID=1000FUNKWHALE_HOSTNAME=your.funkwhale.exampleFUNKWHALE_PROTOCOL=httpsNGINX_MAX_BODY_SIZE=100MFUNKWHALE_API_IP=127.0.0.1FUNKWHALE_API_PORT=5500DJANGO_SECRET_KEY=$(openssl rand -hex 45)NESTED_PROXY=1unless-stoppedStandalone Install
Select an install method, to see config/commands for deploying Funkwhale
Install on Portainer
Import all app templates into your Portainer instance, for easy 1-click deploys
- Ensure both Docker and Portainer are installed, and up-to-date
- Log into your Portainer web UI
- Under Settings → App Templates, paste the below URL
- Head to Home → App Templates, and the list of apps will show up
- Select Funkwhale, fill in any config options, and hit Deploy
Template Import URL
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Lissy93/portainer-templates/main/templates.json
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Original stackfile
The compose file this template deploys, straight from its repo:
services:
funkwhale:
container_name: funkwhale
restart: unless-stopped
# change version number here when you want to do an upgrade
image: funkwhale/all-in-one:1.2.10
environment:
- PUID=1000
- PGID=1000
# Replace 'your.funkwhale.example' with your actual domain
- FUNKWHALE_HOSTNAME=your.funkwhale.example
# Protocol may also be: http
- FUNKWHALE_PROTOCOL=https
# This limits the upload size
- NGINX_MAX_BODY_SIZE=100M
# Bind to localhost
- FUNKWHALE_API_IP=127.0.0.1
# Container port you want to expose on the host
- FUNKWHALE_API_PORT=5500
# Generate and store a secure secret key for your instance
- DJANGO_SECRET_KEY=$(openssl rand -hex 45)
# Remove this if you expose the container directly on ports 80/443
- NESTED_PROXY=1
volumes:
- /portainer/Files/AppData/Config/funkwhale/data:/data
- /portainer/multimedia/music/dir:/music:ro
ports:
- "5000:80"
Or deploy it directly from the source:
git clone https://github.com/xneo1/portainer_templates
cd portainer_templates
docker compose -f Template/Stack/funkwhale.yml up -dMore install options in our documentation.
This container contains all the tools required by Funkwhale: Postgres, Redis, Nginx and all the needed files and configuration to start a dockerized Funkwhale instance in a single container. It is no longer supported by the Funkwhale collective.
Serve Funkwhale on your own domain behind Caddy, Nginx or Traefik. Fill in your domain and copy the result. It's a starting point, some apps need their own base URL or extra headers set too.
Proxying funkwhale.example.com to http://funkwhale:80
Add this to your Caddyfile
funkwhale.example.com {
reverse_proxy http://funkwhale:80
}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:
137means killed, usually out of memory.126or127means the command inside the image is broken.
Port already in use
If deployment fails with "Bind for 0.0.0.0:5000 failed: port is already allocated", something else on your server is using that port.
- Find what's using it:
sudo ss -tlnp | grep :5000 - Stop the other service, or pick a different host port. In
5000:80only the left number is yours to change, the right one belongs to the app.
Running but the page won't load
The container is up but nothing appears in your browser.
- Use your server's real IP:
http://your-server-ip:5000. The 0.0.0.0 link Portainer shows isn't a real address. - Give it a minute after first deploy, funkwhale can take a while to initialise.
- Make sure your firewall allows the port, e.g.
sudo ufw allow 5000
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 /portainer/Files/AppData/Config/funkwhale/data(and the same for the other mapped folders) - Or set the
PUIDandPGIDvariables (defaults 1000:1000) to match your own user, found withid $USER
Image won't pull
Test the pull directly on the host: docker pull funkwhale/all-in-one:1.2.10
- "manifest unknown" means the tag no longer exists.
- "toomanyrequests" is the Docker Hub rate limit. Log in with
docker loginto 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 - 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
noso 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.
- Bug within the app: Open an issue within funkwhale's repo
- Template not working: Open an issue on xneo1/portainer_templates
- This website not working: Open an issue on lissy93/portainer-templates
A Compose stack
Funkwhale 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 Funkwhale needs bundled into one download. This template pulls funkwhale/all-in-one:1.2.10, which Docker fetches once (about 594 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. Funkwhale's comes from Docker Hub, published by funkwhale.
Version tags
The bit after the colon in the image name is the version tag. This one pins 1.2.10, so every redeploy gives you that exact build until you bump it yourself.
Which machines it runs on
Every image is built for particular CPU types. This one ships for amd64, so it runs on regular x86 PCs and servers, though not ARM boards like a Raspberry Pi.
Ports
A port is the door the app answers on. A mapping like 5000:80 means it's reachable on port 5000 of your server, where the left number is yours to change and the right one belongs to the app. Once it's running, open http://your-server-ip:5000 in a browser. It opens:
5000:80, likely the web interface
Volumes
A volume is where Funkwhale 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:
/datafrom/portainer/Files/AppData/Config/funkwhale/dataon the host/musicfrom/portainer/multimedia/music/diron the host
Environment variables
Environment variables are the settings you hand over when you deploy, things like a password or a timezone. Funkwhale takes 9 of them, all with defaults you can leave alone or tweak:
PUID, defaults to1000PGID, defaults to1000FUNKWHALE_HOSTNAME, defaults toyour.funkwhale.exampleFUNKWHALE_PROTOCOL, defaults tohttpsNGINX_MAX_BODY_SIZE, defaults to100MFUNKWHALE_API_IP, defaults to127.0.0.1FUNKWHALE_API_PORT, defaults to5500DJANGO_SECRET_KEY, defaults to$(openssl rand -hex 45)NESTED_PROXY, defaults to1
Restart policy
The restart policy here is unless-stopped, so Docker restarts Funkwhale 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).
Users and permissions
The PUID and PGID settings tell it which user and group to act as on your host. Point them at your own account (find yours with id $USER) so the files it writes into your mounted folders come out owned by you rather than root.
Networking
Nothing custom is set, so Funkwhale 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 funkwhale. That's what you'll spot in the containers list and use in commands like docker logs funkwhale.
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 Funkwhale up. Add the template list to Portainer once, then deploying Funkwhale is a click rather than a wall of config.