Paperless NGX

NOTE: this is only a STUB to be completed in the future.

Paperless NGX

Paperless-NGX can be installed on bare-metal, but i find the container approach recomended.

So first of all, as usual, create the dedicated user:

useradd -d /data/daemons/paperless -m paperless
mkdir /data/paperless
chown paperless:paperless /data/paperless

and, as user paperless, create the /data/daemons/paperless/docker-compose.yml file:

docker-compose.yml

    network:
      - paperless-net

networks:
  paperless-net: {}

Adapt the paths and the port to your needs (8089).

Now pull it:

su - stirlingpdf
podman compose pull

The following NGINX configuration file is the base for Stirling-PDF:

paperless.conf

location /paperless/ {
        proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:xxxx;
        access_log off;
        client_max_body_size 200M;
        proxy_read_timeout 3600;
}

Adapt the port to match the one in the docker compose. I also suggest to set a proper client_max_body_size to allow upload/download of big enough files, and also the proxy_read_timeout value.

See The Reverse Proxy concept

To start it, and set it up on boot, as usual follow my indications Using Containers on Gentoo, so link the user-containers init script:

ln -s /etc/init.d/user-containers /etc/init.d/user-containers.paperless

and create the following config file:

/etc/conf.d/user-containers.paperless

USER=paperless
DESCRIPTION="The document manager"

Add the service to the default runlevel and start it now:

rc-update add user-containers.paperless default
rc-service user-containers.paperless start