Apache using Docker¶

This tutorial assumes that you have created a DNS A record for trilium.yourdomain.com that you want to use for your Trilium server.

Docker setup¶

Download docker image and create container

 docker pull triliumnext/trilium:[VERSION]
 docker create --name trilium -t -p 127.0.0.1:8080:8080 -v ~/trilium-data:/home/node/trilium-data triliumnext/trilium:[VERSION]

Configuring the Apache proxy¶

1. Enable apache proxy modules

    a2enmod ssl
    a2enmod proxy
    a2enmod proxy_http
    a2enmod proxy_wstunnel
   

   2. Create a new let's encrypt certificate

    sudo certbot certonly -d trilium.mydomain.com
   

   Choose standalone (2) and note the location of the created certificates (typically /etc/letsencrypt/live/...) 3. Create a new virtual host file for apache (you may want to use apachectl -S to determine the server root location, mine is /etc/apache2)

    sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/trilium.yourdomain.com.conf
   

   Paste (and customize) the following text into the configuration file

        ServerName http://trilium.yourdomain.com
        RewriteEngine on
            RewriteRule ^ https://%{SERVER_NAME}%{REQUEST_URI} [END,QSA,R=permanent]
   
   
        ServerName https://trilium.yourdomain.com
        RewriteEngine On
        RewriteCond %{HTTP:Connection} Upgrade [NC]
        RewriteCond %{HTTP:Upgrade} websocket [NC]
        RewriteRule /(.*) ws://localhost:8080/$1 [P,L]
        AllowEncodedSlashes NoDecode
        ProxyPass / http://localhost:8080/ nocanon
        ProxyPassReverse / http://localhost:8080/
        SSLCertificateFile /etc/letsencrypt/live/trilium.yourdomain.com/fullchain.pem
        SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/letsencrypt/live/trilium.yourdomain.com/privkey.pem
        Include /etc/letsencrypt/options-ssl-apache.conf
   

   4. Enable the virtual host with sudo a2ensite trilium.yourdomain.com.conf 5. Reload apache2 with sudo systemctl reload apache2

Configuring the trusted proxy¶

After setting up a reverse proxy, make sure to configure the Trusted proxy.

Setup the systemd service to start up the server¶

Create and enable a systemd service to start the docker container on boot

1. Create a new empty file called /lib/systemd/system/trilium.service with the contents

    [Unit]
    Description=Trilium Server
    Requires=docker.service
    After=docker.service
   
    [Service]
    Restart=always
    ExecStart=/usr/bin/docker start -a trilium
    ExecStop=/usr/bin/docker stop -t 2 trilium
   
    [Install]
    WantedBy=local.target
   

   2. Install, enable and start service

    sudo systemctl daemon-reload
    sudo systemctl enable trilium.service
    sudo systemctl start trilium.service