Jirafeau/docker

Jirafeau in Docker

Jirafeau is a small PHP application so running it inside a docker is pretty straightforward.

Get Jirafeau's docker image

Pull docker image from Docker Hub

docker pull mojo42/jirafeau

Build your own docker image

git clone https://gitlab.com/mojo42/Jirafeau.git
cd Jirafeau
docker build -t mojo42/jirafeau:latest .

Run Jirafeau image

Once you have your Jirafeau's image, you can run a quick & dirty Jirafeau using:

docker run -d -p 8080:80 mojo42/jirafeau

and then connect on locahost:8080 and proceed to installation.

Security

Jirafeau is run without privilidges with user id 2009. To make it able to open privilidged ports you can pass the capability, just stay with 8080 and use a reverse proxy or map the port 80:8080.

docker run -d -p 80:80 --sysctl net.ipv4.ip_unprivileged_port_start=80 mojo42/jirafeau
docker run -d -p 8080:80 mojo42/jirafeau
docker run -d -p 80:80 mojo42/jirafeau

Note that Jirafeau image does not provide any SSL/TLS. You may be interrested in using docker compose combined with Let's Encrypt.

Options

Jirafeau docker image accept some options through environment variables to ease its configuration. More details about options in lib/config.original.php.

Available options:

• FILE_HASH: can be set to md5 (default), partial_md5 or random.

Few notes

• var-... folder where lives all uploaded data is protected from direct access
• Image has been made using Alpine Linux with lighttpd which makes the container very light and start very quickly