Seafile on FreeBSD jails

This article is brief overview of seafile installation inside freebsd zfs jail.

Installation and initial setup

# ZFS clone jail

zfs clone zroot/jails/templates/14.2-RELEASE@base zroot/jails/containers/seafile

# Jail config

seafile {
  # STARTUP/LOGGING
  exec.start = "/bin/sh /etc/rc";
  exec.stop = "/bin/sh /etc/rc.shutdown";
  exec.consolelog = "/var/log/jail_console_${name}.log";

  # PERMISSIONS
  allow.raw_sockets;
  exec.clean;
  mount.devfs;

  # HOSTNAME/PATH
  host.hostname = "${name}";
  path = "/usr/local/jails/containers/${name}";

  # NETWORK
  # ip4 = inherit;
  ip4.addr = 172.16.0.23;
  interface = re0;
}

# Install packages

pkg -j seafile install seahub nginx mysql80-server memcached py311-pylibmc

Seafile-server and mysql80-client will be installed as dependancies.

Mind that you should use mysql80-server because of hardcoded mysql80-client to seafile package. If you need another server version you probably better compile seafile yourself from ports.

Now log into the jail:

jexec seafile /bin/sh

Do not forget to run secure script:

/usr/local/bin/mysql_secure_installation

If you setup seafile from scratch run installation script:

cd /usr/local/www/haiwen/seafile-server

./setup-seafile-mysql.sh

If you want to use existing database (probably from backup) you should do 2 things:

• Create seafile user

Mind that you need to create ‘seafile’@‘%’ user, not ‘seafile@localhost’ (otherwise you will not be able to run seafile setup script).

mysql -p

CREATE USER 'seafile'@'%' IDENTIFIED BY '<pass>'
GRANT ALL ON `ccnet-db`.* TO 'seafile'@'%';
GRANT ALL ON `seafile-db`.* TO 'seafile'@'%';

• DROP seahub database if using existing dump

DROP DATABASE `seahub-db`

Because setup script create all tables anyway and will fail it tables exist in database.

Now you can run setup script.

# Start services

sysrc seafile_enable="YES"
sysrc seahub_enable="YES"
service seafile start
service seahub start

# Nginx conf

worker_processes 1;

events {
        worker_connections 1024;
}

http {
        include mime.types;
        default_type application/octet-stream;
        sendfile on;
        tcp_nopush on;
        tcp_nodelay on;
        keepalive_timeout 65;
        server_tokens off;

server {
        listen 80;
        server_name <domain>;
        root /usr/local/www/nginx;

        error_page 500 502 503 504 /50x.html;
        location = 50x.html {
        root /usr/local/www/nginx-dist;
}

location / {
        proxy_pass http://172.16.0.23:8000;
        proxy_set_header Host $host;
        proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Host $server_name;
        proxy_read_timeout 1200s;

        access_log /var/log/nginx/seahub.access.log;
        error_log /var/log/nginx/seahub.error.log;
        client_max_body_size 0;
}

location /seafhttp {
        rewrite ^/seafhttp(.*)$ $1 break;
        proxy_pass http://172.16.0.23:8082;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Host $host:$server_port;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Server $host;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
        proxy_http_version 1.1;
        client_max_body_size 0;
        proxy_connect_timeout 36000s;
        proxy_read_timeout 36000s;
}

location /seafdav {
        proxy_pass         http://172.16.0.23:8080;
        proxy_set_header   Host $host;
        proxy_set_header   X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
        proxy_set_header   X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
        proxy_set_header   X-Forwarded-Host $server_name;
        proxy_http_version 1.1;
        proxy_connect_timeout  36000s;
        proxy_read_timeout  36000s;
        proxy_send_timeout  36000s;
        send_timeout  36000s;

        # This option is only available for Nginx >= 1.8.0.
        client_max_body_size 0;
        proxy_request_buffering off;
}
}
}

Startup nginx and you should see login page in your browser.

If anything went wrong check logs dir at /usr/local/www/haiwen/logs/.

Setup caching

pip install django-pylibmc

All configs live in /usr/local/www/haiwen/conf.

# Seahub-settings.py for caching option

CACHES = {
    'default': {
        'BACKEND': 'django_pylibmc.memcached.PyLibMCCache',
        'LOCATION': '172.16.0.23:11211',
    },
}

Further configuration

Any futher configuration you can do via web interface with your admin account.

If you prefer config files do not hesitate to add

SERVICE_URL = http://seafile.example.com

in ccnet.conf

and

FILE_SERVER_ROOT = 'http://seafile.example.com/seafhttp'

in seahub_settings.py

# Add jail to jail_list for autostart in your rc.conf at host machine

jail_list=" seafile "

SSL

I use haproxy in front of nginx for SSL termination but its configuration is out of scope of this article.

Links

https://shoeper.gitbooks.io/seafile-docs/

https://manual.seafile.com/11.0/deploy/using_mysql/

https://seafile.readthedocs.io/en/latest/