Install Droppy in Your Proxmox Server

SelfHost Droppy, replace Google Drive and One Drive and get your privacy back.

1. Description

Droppy is a Self Hosted File Cloud

I was looking for a simple Selfhosted cloud application that could work the first time
The installation should be from a docker compose file without having to do alot of things to make it work
I fould a lot of these type of applications in Github but most of them did not meet my requirement

  1. A very simple Web application that alloys you so share files
  2. It features a Drag and Drop interface to upload files
  3. You can send links to files that the other persons browser will download
  4. The way we impliment this makes it easy to Backup the files in the data folder

1.1 Droppy provided a dockercompose file in Github

https://github.com/silverwind/droppy/blob/master/examples/docker-compose.yml

2. Creating a Docker instance in a Proxmox container

2.1 Upload latest Ubuntu ISO file to storage drive ZZ_User_Data

Open The Proxmox server

  1. In the left navigation pane click on your Proxmox servers icon
  2. On the right hand side top click on the Shell button run this command:
pveam available

We found these options for ubuntu:


system          ubuntu-20.04-standard_20.04-1_amd64.tar.gz
system          ubuntu-22.04-standard_22.04-1_amd64.tar.zst
system          ubuntu-23.04-standard_23.04-1_amd64.tar.zst
system          ubuntu-23.10-standard_23.10-1_amd64.tar.zst

We will select : ubuntu-23.10-standard_23.10-1_amd64.tar.zst We want to download this to storage : ZZ_User_Data run this command ubuntu-23.10-standard_23.10-1_amd64.tar.zst

run this command

pveam download ZZ_User_Data ubuntu-23.10-standard_23.10-1_amd64.tar.zst

2.2 Create the Proxmox container Storage86

  1. Click on Create CT button
  2. Set Container ID : CT ID = 401
  3. Set Hostname : Storage86
  4. Set and confirm root password
  5. Press Next
  6. Set Storage : (we will use one of the 2TB drives) = ZZ_User_Data
  7. Select Template from dropdown as : ubuntu-23.10-standard_23.10-1_amd64.tar.zst
  8. Press the Next button
  9. Select Storage from dropdown as : ZZ_User_Data
  10. Set Disk Size GiB as (Allocate enough storage) : 100 GiB
  11. Press the Next button
  12. Set cores to : 2 (This dependes on your hardware)
  13. Set CPU Limit to : 1 (This dependes on your hardware)
  14. Press the Next button
  15. Set Memory to : 8192 MiB
  16. Set Swap to 8192 MiB
  17. Press the Next button
  18. Set IP v4 CIDR to :10.154.2.86/24
  19. Set Gateway ip v4 to 10.152.2.3
  20. Press the Next button
  21. Set DNS Domain to : 10.152.2.3
  22. Set DNS servers to 8.8.8.8,1.1.1.1
  23. Press the Next button
  24. Press the Finish button

2.3 Server administration

  1. Click on the Container Storage86 on theTop Right side
  2. Start the Container
  3. Click the Start button Top Right side

run these commands:

sudo apt update

sudo apt upgrade -y

sudo apt install curl nano wget -y

2.4 Create Sudoer user with Passwordless ssh login

Procedure can be fould here : http://rino.kozow.com/linux/posts/usefull-linux-commands/

3. Install Docker in the Container

3.1 Installing Docker on Ubuntu server

sudo su -

#Prerequisites
sudo apt update -y

sudo apt install apt-transport-https ca-certificates curl software-properties-common

curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg | sudo apt-key add -

sudo add-apt-repository "deb [arch=amd64] https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu focal stable"

sudo apt update

apt-cache policy docker-ce

sudo apt update

# Now install Docker
sudo apt install docker-ce -y

#Verify Docker installation
docker --version

sudo systemctl status docker

sudo systemctl enable docker

sudo systemctl start docker

sudo systemctl status docker

4. Install Portainer

Procedure to install Portainer : http://rino.kozow.com/devops/posts/install-portainer-inside-our-proxmox-lxc-container/

5. Install Droppy

Run these commands :

mkdir /opt/droppy
mkdir /opt/droppy/data
mkdir /opt/droppy/config

run this command:

nano docker-compose.yml

Put this in the file:

version: '3'
services:
  droppy:
    container_name: droppy
    image: silverwind/droppy
    ports:
      - '8989:8989'
    volumes:
      - /opt/droppy/config:/config
      - /opt/droppy/data:/files
    restart: unless-stopped

Run this command: (Start Droppy Container in <detached mode)

docker compose up -d

6. Administrate Droppy

Open Portainer in your browser:
http://server-ip-address:9000/
http://10.154.2.86:9000/

Open Droppy in Browser

http://server-ip-address:8989/
http://10.154.2.86:8989