Web-based Apps

File Browser - A Free Web File Manager for Your Server

Hamza Musa

08 Sep 2024 — 2 min read

File Browser is an open-source self-hosted app that enables offers a file managing interface within a specified directory and it can be used to upload, delete, preview, rename and edit your files. It allows the creation of multiple users and each user can have its own directory.

It can be used as a standalone app, on Linux, macOS, or installed using Docker.

Features

Single Binary
Easy to install and use
Responsive design
Fast
File Search
Add new Files and Folders
Delete Files
Duplicate Files
Preview in list or thumbnails
Easy to upload and download
Supports multiple users
Multi-platform
Can be easily install using Docker or from source

Tech

Go language

Supported Systems

Linux
Windows
macOS
Unix

Install and use

macOS

brew tap filebrowser/tap
brew install filebrowser
filebrowser -r /path/to/your/files

Unix

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/filebrowser/get/master/get.sh | bash
filebrowser -r /path/to/your/files

Windows

iwr -useb https://raw.githubusercontent.com/filebrowser/get/master/get.ps1 | iex
filebrowser -r /path/to/your/files

Username: admin
Password: admin

Run using Docker

docker run \
    -v /path/to/root:/srv \
    -v /path/to/filebrowser.db:/database/filebrowser.db \
    -v /path/to/settings.json:/config/settings.json \
    -e PUID=$(id -u) \
    -e PGID=$(id -g) \
    -p 8080:80 \
    filebrowser/filebrowser:s6

License

The project is an open-source project that is released under the Apache 2.0 License

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