File browser for the CETICam

This is the project for installing and configuring a file browser for use with the CETICam and the CETICam UI. The reason for a seperate docker file is to get filebrowser to not have a login and to remove all the settings that could allow modifying the files.

The file browser we are using is from the filebrowser project at http://filebrowser.org and on GitHib at https://github.com/filebrowser/filebrowser

This image is extremely small, like 35MB which makes it great for use on the Jetson Nano.

for the CETICam Web App. It should work on any dev or production environment including the Jetson Nano

Prerequisites

• git - verify by typing git --version at the command line
• docker - verify by typing docker --version at the command line

If these are not installed or you have trouble using them, see these instructions. -ADD LINK HERE-

Setup

Make sure you are in the correct location where you want to install this project. It will create a folder named ceti-cam-filebrowser

The GitHub repository is located https://github.com/djmoran64/ceti-cam-filebrowser
Use your favorite tool to clone the repository: https://github.com/djmoran64/ceti-cam-filebrowser.git

git clone https://github.com/djmoran64/ceti-cam-filebrowser.git

Build

docker build -t dmoran64/ceti-cam-filebrowser:0.9.0 .

Run

docker run -d -v /Users/dmoran/Development:/srv:ro -p 8088:80 --name ceti-cam-fb dmoran64/ceti-cam-filebrowser:0.9.0

Change /Users/dmoran/Development to match the location of the host directory to be shared and change 8088 to the port you want to use from the host machine

Details

The filebrowser/filebrowser docker image settings are as follows:

• The executable filebrowser is installed in the root / folder along with a default .filebrowser.json which has some system defaults.
• The docker file uses the filebrowser executable during build to:
  • Create and initialize the database.db in the root '/' folder
  • Allow anonymous access
  • Create a user who has only read permissions
• The root folder of the host filesystem to be served is bind mounted to /srv in the docker container. the :ro on the volume mount makes the host filesystem read only for added protection.

The documentation for filebrowser commands is at https://filebrowser.org/cli/filebrowser

Getting the proper setup was a major PITA. It seems to be better to run the config and user commands directly and not mess around with the config files.