How to install/run filebrowser

[thimplicity]

Hi everyone,
I am new to Linux and TrueNAS, coming over from a QNAP, and I miss a file browser :). Thankfully, I am apparantly not alone and someone developed one:
https://filebrowser.org/

I have tried to install it in a jail, but have failed miserably so far. I have tried it alone and together with a caddy installation in the same jail, but without success. I get to a point, where it is listening to the port I tell it to listen to, but I cannot access the GUI on the respective IP (when using DHCP) or the port (when using NAT).

It would be great, if someone would be able/willing to help!

P.S. The good thing about it is that I had to learn file operations in the shell

 

[anodos]

Check out mc https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mc

 

[thimplicity]

Check out mc https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mc

Cool, that is a good step - thanks a lot.
Would still like to install filebrowser though :)

 

[sretalla]

Would still like to install filebrowser though :)

Seems it installed just fine when I tried it... I guess you mean you want it running as a service (so somebody would need to make the rc.d file).

 

[thimplicity]

Seems it installed just fine when I tried it... I guess you mean you want it running as a service (so somebody would need to make the rc.d file).

I would be happy to be able to access it initially. I am not even sure whether I installed it correctly. Also I might not fully understand what running vs running as a service means

 

[sretalla]

I am not even sure whether I installed it correctly

You made a jail and then from inside that jail ran the 2 commands recommended in the unix installation instructions?

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/filebrowser/get/master/get.sh | bash

filebrowser -r /path/to/your/files


The things you probably encountered... You don't have curl and bash by default in a jail... easily fixed... pkg install bash curl

After that...

The default database that filebrowser creates limits the IP connectivity to localhost, so you probably can't connect to it...

filebrowser config set address 0.0.0.0 (to listen on all IP addresses of the jail)

then

filebrowser -r /path/to/your/files

At which point you're going to realize that if you quit the terminal you're in, the program stops running... so you'll be asking about how to run it as a service (so it starts automatically and runs all the time when the jail is started).

 

[thimplicity]

filebrowser config set address 0.0.0.0 (to listen on all IP addresses of the jail)

this one did the trick to be able to open it, at least when the jail shell is open - thanks!

Can you point me in the right direction to get it set up as a service and have it run all the time?

 

[Patrick M. Hausen]

Can you point me in the right direction to get it set up as a service and have it run all the time?

Practical rc.d scripting in BSD

A guide to writing new rc.d scripts and understanding those already written

docs.freebsd.org

 

[sretalla]

Can you point me in the right direction to get it set up as a service and have it run all the time?

Since I also saw you over on the thread about nzbget, maybe it will be helpful for you to look at how they did it (/usr/local/etc/rc.d/nzbget)

 

[danb35]

...and as a stop-gap measure to setting up an rc script, you could always start it in a tmux session. You'd still need to restart it whenever you restart the server, but it wouldn't die when you log out.

 

[thimplicity]

...and as a stop-gap measure to setting up an rc script, you could always start it in a tmux session. You'd still need to restart it whenever you restart the server, but it wouldn't die when you log out.

Thanks, will need to figure out how that works

 

[ddaenen1]

have you considered just connecting to your TrueNAS server with an FTP client such as WinSCP? All you need is to activate the FTP service in TrueNAS and connect using your root credentials. Works like a charm and is an "explorer-like" experience.

Why make things complicated when they can be simple?

 

[thimplicity]

have you considered just connecting to your TrueNAS server with an FTP client such as WinSCP? All you need is to activate the FTP service in TrueNAS and connect using your root credentials. Works like a charm and is an "explorer-like" experience.

Why make things complicated when they can be simple?

I have, but at the same time, I was wondering whether data is routed through the client when copying/moving files. This does not seem to be the case though after some reading. Cyberduck does not even have a copy/move function (WinSCP does), so it seems I need to check it out more.

 

[anodos]

I have, but at the same time, I was wondering whether data is routed through the client when copying/moving files. This does not seem to be the case though after some reading. Cyberduck does not even have a copy/move function (WinSCP does), so it seems I need to check it out more.

SMB protocol supports server-side copy.

 

[sretalla]

Cyberduck does not even have a copy/move function (WinSCP does), so it seems I need to check it out more.

Filezilla does.