Seafile on paapereira.xyz

Activate WebDAV in Seafile

Fri, 30 Dec 2022 14:00:00 +0000

I turned off WebDAV in Seafile some time ago because it wasn’t working.

Can’t remember the issue itself, but I wasn’t actively using it so…

I’m now in version 9.0.13. Here’s how I enable it.

Make sure you have pycryptodome installed.

1sudo pip install pycryptodome==3.12.0

Activate WebDAV in seafdav.conf

1[WEBDAV]
2enabled = true
3port = 8888
4share_name = /seafdav
5show_repo_id = true

Configure ProxyPassReverse in Apache. In my case /etc/httpd/conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf

Upgrading Seafile from 7.1.x to 8.0.x

Sat, 01 Jan 2022 14:17:46 +0000

The new 9.0 Seafile version is out. Time to upgrade. I’m currently running 8.0.16.

Don’t forget to read the release notes from Seafile.

Before upgrading

Reading the release notes, this version needs python modules. I also upgraded pip

1sudo /usr/bin/python -m pip install --upgrade pip
2
3sudo /usr/bin/python -m pip install pycryptodome==3.12.0
4sudo /usr/bin/python -m pip install cffi==1.14.0

I had cffi 1.15 in my system, I had to downgrade:

Seafile log4j vulnerability fix

Thu, 30 Dec 2021 19:57:31 +0000

There is a recent log4j vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228) affecting a ton or services and servers.

Specifically for Seafile, you can read this post in the forum to know more about this issue and how to fix it.

Here are my notes about it.

Scan for vulnerable log4j classes

1sudo -u seafile_user -s /bin/sh
2mkdir /tmp/log4jscan/
3cd /tmp/log4jscan/
4wget https://github.com/lunasec-io/lunasec/releases/download/v1.3.1-log4shell/log4shell_1.3.1-log4shell_Linux_x86_64
5chmod +x log4shell_1.3.1-log4shell_Linux_x86_64
6./log4shell_1.3.1-log4shell_Linux_x86_64 scan $HOME/seafile/seafile-server-latest/

You will see something like this:

Fixing Seafile

Sun, 19 Dec 2021 14:00:00 +0000

Similarly to the beginning of the year, I had a problem with Seafile. It was crashing and I couldn’t start it with systemd.

Here’s my notes/steps/fixes for the issue.

I stopped the services:

1sudo systemctl stop seahub
2sudo systemctl stop seafile

Sudo into the seafile user:

1sudo -u seafileuser -s /bin/sh

Disabled the daemon mode and manually started seafile to see the output errors:

Upgrading Seafile from 7.1.x to 8.0.x

Sat, 06 Mar 2021 14:08:33 +0000

The new 8.0.0 Seafile version is out. Time to upgrade. I’m currently running 7.1.14.

Don’t forget to read the release notes from Seafile.

Before upgrading

Reading the release notes, this version needs the libmysqlclient-dev (I’m using mariadb-libs) package and new python modules.

I just upgraded pip, installed the new python modules and upgraded others.

1sudo /usr/bin/python -m pip install --upgrade pip
2
3sudo pip3 install --timeout=3600 future mysqlclient
4
5sudo pip3 install --timeout=3600 Pillow pylibmc captcha jinja2 \
6	sqlalchemy django-pylibmc django-simple-captcha python3-ldap

Upgrading

I started by stopping the services:

Fixing Seafile

Sat, 30 Jan 2021 16:28:27 +0000

Yesterday I woke up without access to my Seafile instance.

Here’s my notes/steps/fixes for the issue.

Restart Seafile and check for errors:

1sudo systemctl restart seafile
2sudo systemctl status seafile
3sudo systemctl restart seahub
4sudo systemctl status seahub

No errors here.

Check Seafile logs:

1sudo -u seafile -s /bin/sh
2cd /srv/seafile/logs

I found the following in elasticsearch.log:

Upgrading Seafile from 7.0.x to 7.1.x

Sun, 05 Jul 2020 14:24:44 +0100

I’ve waiting to upgrade to Seafile 7.1 because I keep my installation manually and I wasn’t finding the *x86-64.tar.gz option to download. After asking in the forums, I discovered it’s just a change of name.

Don’t forget to read the release notes from Seafile.

Before upgrading

Reading the release notes, this version needs Python 3 and a set of modules.

Python 3

1yay -S python python-setuptools python-pip
2
3sudo pip3 install --timeout=3600 wheel Pillow pylibmc captcha jinja2 \
4	sqlalchemy django-pylibmc django-simple-captcha python3-ldap \
5	django-recaptcha django-ranged-response

Memcached

The Memcached configuration also changed in this version. I wasn’t using Memcached, so I took the opportunity to set it up.

🖥️ 🐧 Installing Arch Linux in my new NUC7i3BNH

Sat, 09 May 2020 10:40:10 +0100

Time to setup my new NUC7i3BNH.

I will install Arch Linux with no window manager and it will act as my home server with Seafile, Plex, Sickchill, sabnzbd, etc..

Preparation

Upgrade BIOS Firmware

Download the latest BIOS
Copy the .bios file to a USB drive
Boot and enter the upgrade page with F7

Burn ISO to USB pen drive

Download the Arch Linux ISO
Burn the iso in the usb pen drive.

1lsblk
2cd Downloads
3sudo dd bs=4M if=archlinux-2020.05.01-x86_64.iso of=/dev/sdc status=progress oflag=sync

Installation

Boot from the usb pen drive (setup the boot sequence entering the BIOS with F2).

Seafile Installation Notes in Arch Linux

Sun, 28 May 2017 18:23:43 +0100

These are my notes about installing Seafile in my Arch Linux home server.

Note: I have reviewed and added to these notes several times.

I’m using:

Seafile
A NUC with Arch Linux as my home server
A WD My Cloud NAS

Create a new share seafile
Create a new directory in the server

1sudo mkdir /home/nas/seafile
2sudo chmod 750 /home/nas/seafile
3sudo chown seafile:seafile /home/nas/seafile

Setup a mountpoint in the server

1sudo vi /etc/fstab

1nas:/nfs/seafile /home/nas/seafile nfs users,noauto,x-systemd.automount,x-systemd.device-timeout=10,timeo=14,soft,intr,noatime,file_mode=0640,dir_mode=0750 0 0

Set NO_ROOT_SWASH in the WD My Cloud NFS exports configuration (when I restart my NAS I have to do this again…)

1ssh -oHostKeyAlgorithms=+ssh-dss sshd@192.168.0.99

1vi /etc/exports

1"/nfs/seafile" *(rw,no_root_squash,sync,no_wdelay,insecure_locks,insecure,no_subtree_check,anonuid=501,anongid=1000)

1exportfs -r

Server installation

Pre-requisites

 1sudo pacman -S python-imaging mysql-python
 2
 3mkdir /tmp/cower
 4cd /tmp/cower
 5cower -d libsearpc
 6cd /tmp/cower/libsearpc
 7makepkg -sri
 8cower -d libsepol
 9cd /tmp/cower/libsepol
10makepkg -sri
11cower -d libselinux
12cd /tmp/cower/libselinux
13makepkg -sri

Download Seafile

https://www.seafile.com/en/download/

Seafile on paapereira.xyz

Activate WebDAV in Seafile

Upgrading Seafile from 7.1.x to 8.0.x

Before upgrading

Seafile log4j vulnerability fix

Scan for vulnerable log4j classes

Fixing Seafile

Upgrading Seafile from 7.1.x to 8.0.x

Before upgrading

Upgrading

Fixing Seafile

Upgrading Seafile from 7.0.x to 7.1.x

Before upgrading

Python 3

Memcached

🖥️ 🐧 Installing Arch Linux in my new NUC7i3BNH

Preparation

Upgrade BIOS Firmware

Burn ISO to USB pen drive

Installation

Seafile Installation Notes in Arch Linux

Setup a NAS share

Server installation

Pre-requisites

Download Seafile