Self-host FileBrowser Quantum

updated Sep 2026deployed by usprices checked · Jul 2026Install verified on Ubuntu 26.04 · Sep 2026 · how we test

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A web file manager for folders on your server, with indexed search, share links, multiple users with OIDC or LDAP sign-in, WebDAV and file previews. It is a heavily reworked fork of the original File Browser project, whose filebrowser/filebrowser repository has since been archived on GitHub.

Key facts

CategoryFile sync & storage

LicenseApache-2.0

StackGo, Vue

Min RAM512 MB

Official imageyes

Measured idle RAM41 MB

Difficulty

Sourcegithub.com/gtsteffaniak/filebrowser

Websitefilebrowserquantum.com

What you need

Any VPS with at least 512 MB of RAM
A domain you control — most self-hosted setups need HTTPS in front of them
Under an hour if you've used Docker before

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Install

Run these commands on your server:

# FileBrowser Quantum (stable channel) — shares ~/files; the container runs as UID 1000
mkdir -p ~/files && sudo chown 1000:1000 ~/files
FB_PASS=$(openssl rand -hex 12); echo "admin password: $FB_PASS"
docker run -d --name filebrowser --restart unless-stopped -p 8080:80 \
  -e FILEBROWSER_ADMIN_PASSWORD="$FB_PASS" \
  -v ~/files:/srv -v filebrowser-data:/home/filebrowser/data \
  ghcr.io/gtsteffaniak/filebrowser:stable
# open http://SERVER_IP:8080 and sign in as admin with the password printed above