A FileRun docker image on Alpine Linux
FileRun is a self-hosted Google Drive/Photos/Music alternative. It's a full-features web based file manager with exceptionally well-polished user interface.
I was looking for a docker image to run on my ODroid HC2 NAS for the choice of web file manager. FileRun's official documentation requires downloading a 800M+ PHP image based on Apache (what?) and a 300M+ MariaDB image. I don't want to spend 1GB space on just a simple file manager (filebrowser is only 30 MB. So I decide to build my own stack.
Features
- Alpine base image (3.12)
- nginx
- PHP 7.3
Usage
Use docker volumes to map /user-files to the file root folder, /usr/share/nginx/html to nginx root, /var/lib/mysql to maria database.
$ docker-compose up -dThe default FileRun credentials are as follows:
- Username: superuser
- Password: superuser
Improvement
I ended up creating two new docker images, one running nginx and another running php-fpm, due to the way PHP on nginx works (as opposite to Apache modules). For the custom php-fpm, I have followed the offical docker build and rewrote significantly on all the steps. This turns out to be much cleaner. For the nginx image, the increased size is mostly because of a pre-downloaded filerun zip file, that would be extracted to the html root the first time the container is created. I also added a modified version of init sql script to load when the mariadb loads (original copy is from https://github.com/filerun/docker-arm32v7).
Size
My goal is to keep the size down. The final size is:
| Name | Size |
|---|---|
| henryouly/filerun-alpine |  |
| henryouly/filerun-alpine-php-fpm |  |
Total on-disk size is below 100 MB.
I also used https://github.com/jbergstroem/mariadb-alpine in the docker-compose.yaml file due to the tiny footprint and fast startup speed.
Areas to improve (open for pull requests)
- henryouly/filerun-alpine-php-fpm is ARM only despite it is shown as a multi-arch docker image, due how ionCube loader is extracted in Dockerfile.
- Support PHP 7.4. According to FileRun docs I attempted to update Dockerfile to use latest PHP image and ionCube. It was unsuccessful to decrypt the PHP files.
- More Dockerfile gimmicks. I have followed best practices to keep the image small and performant on ARM devices.
Acknowledge
Thanks to these projects. My project has been greatly benefited based on their work: