Background

If you don’t know what Filestash is it is an open source application that lets you explore multiple types of file storage (S3, FTP, Backblaze, Google Drive, etc.) in a unified manner, on your own server. If you want to see a demo of it running click here. In this tutorial I will be installing Filestash using CyberPanel, a web hosting control panel that makes running website on an OpenLiteSpeed webserver much more simple.

Install

1. Login to CyberPanel and select “Manage Images” under “Docker Manager” on the sidebarl.

2. Install Docker if not already installed. Note that this may take several minutes.
3. Search for “Filestash. Choose “machines/filestash” image, select the “latest” tag, and finally, click “pull.”

4. Click “Create Container.”
5. Then, select “latest” and click “Create.”
6. Select an “owner,” a “memory limit,” and set “port” to 8334. Then create the container.

7. Click on settings and check “Start on reboot,” then save.
8. Start the application.
9. Now by going to “ipaddress:8334” you can setup Filestash by setting a password.

Optional: Set a Custom Domain

10. In Filestash settings change the “host” to your desried domain. Note: Make sure your domain’s DNS is pointing to your server.
11. In CyberPanel create a website for your domain.

12. In commandline login into your server and edit “/usr/local/lsws/conf/httpd_config.conf.” One way to do this is with the following line of code:

sudo nano /usr/local/lsws/conf/httpd_config.conf

13. Near the bottom of the file, underneath your domain name, add the following block of code.

extprocessor dockerbackend {
  type                    proxy
  address                 127.0.0.1:8334
  maxConns                100
  pcKeepAliveTimeout      60
  initTimeout             60
  retryTimeout            0
  respBuffer              0
}

14. Return to CyberPanel and select “Manage” on your domain.
15. Scroll down to “Rewrite Rules” and paste the following code:

RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on
RewriteRule ^ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]
REWRITERULE ^(.*)$ http://dockerbackend/$1 [P]

You can now visit your filestash install by typing in your selected domain.