colin-gourlay / obsidian-remote

Run Obsidian.md in a browser via a docker container.

obsidian-remote

This docker image allows you to run obsidian in docker as a container and access it via your web browser.

Use http://localhost:8080/ to access it locally, do not expose this to the web unless you secure it and know what you are doing!!

Using the Container

To run a interactive version to test it out. This is using windows based path, update for the OS you are running on.

docker run --rm -it `
  -v D:/ob/vaults:/vaults `
  -v D:/ob/config:/config `
  -p 8080:8080 `
  ghcr.io/sytone/obsidian-remote:latest

To run it as a daemon in the background.

docker run -d `
  -v D:/ob/vaults:/vaults `
  -v D:/ob/config:/config `
  -p 8080:8080 `
  ghcr.io/sytone/obsidian-remote:latest

Ports

Port	Description
8080	Obsidian Web Interface
27123	Local REST API Plugin HTTP Server Port
27124	Local REST API Plugin HTTPS Server Port

Mapped Volumes

Path	Description
/vaults	The location on the host for your Obsidian Vaults
/config	The location to store Obsidan configuration and ssh data for obsidian-git

Environment Variables

Environment Variable	Description
PUID	Set the user ID for the container user. 911 by default.
PGID	Set the group ID for the continer user. 911 by default.
TZ	Set the Time Zone for the container, should match your TZ. Etc/UTC by default. See List of tz database time zones for valid options.
DOCKER_MODS	Use to add mods to the container like git. E.g. DOCKER_MODS=linuxserver/mods:universal-git See Docker Mods for details.
KEYBOARD	Used to se the keyboard being used for input. E.g. KEYBOARD=en-us-qwerty or KEYBOARD=de-de-qwertz a list of other possible values (not tested) can be found at https://github.com/linuxserver/docker-digikam#keyboard-layouts

Using Docker Compose

version: '3.8'
services:
  obsidian:
    image: 'ghcr.io/sytone/obsidian-remote:latest'
    container_name: obsidian-remote
    restart: unless-stopped
    ports:
      - 8080:8080
    volumes:
      - /home/obsidian/vaults:/vaults
      - /home/obsidian/config:/config
    environment:
      - PUID=1000
      - PGID=1000
      - TZ=America/Los_Angeles
      - DOCKER_MODS=linuxserver/mods:universal-git

Enabling GIT for the obsidian-git plugin

This container uses the base images from linuxserver.io. This means you can the linuxserver.io mods. To add support for git add the DOCKER_MODS environment variable like so DOCKER_MODS=linuxserver/mods:universal-git.

Docker CLI example

docker run -d `
  -v D:/ob/vaults:/vaults `
  -v D:/ob/config:/config `
  -p 8080:8080 `
  -e DOCKER_MODS=linuxserver/mods:universal-git `
  ghcr.io/sytone/obsidian-remote:latest

Reloading Obsidan in the Browser

If you make changes to plugins or do updates that need to have obsidian restarted, instead of having to stop and start the docker container you can just close the Obsidian UI and right click to show the menus and reopen it. Here is a short clip showing how to do it.

Setting PUID and PGID

To set PUID and PGID use the follow environment variables on the command line, by default the IDs are 911/911

docker run --rm -it `
  -v D:/ob/vaults:/vaults `
  -v D:/ob/config:/config `
  -e PUID=1000 `
  -e PGID=1000 `
  -p 8080:8080 `
  ghcr.io/sytone/obsidian-remote:latest

Or, if you use docker-compose, add them to the environment: section:

environment:
  - PUID=1000
  - PGID=1000

It is most likely that you will use the id of yourself, which can be obtained by running the command below. The two values you will be interested in are the uid and gid.

id $user

Hosting behind a reverse proxy

If you whish to do that please make sure you are securing it in some way!. You also need to ensure websocket support is enabled.

Example nginx configuration

This is an example, I recommend a SSL based proxy and some sort of authentication.

server {
  set $forward_scheme http;
  set $server         "10.10.10.10";
  set $port           8080;

  listen 80;
  server_name ob.mycooldomain.com;
  proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
  proxy_set_header Connection $http_connection;
  proxy_http_version 1.1;
  access_log /data/logs/ob_access.log proxy;
  error_log /data/logs/ob_error.log warn;
  location / {
    proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
    proxy_set_header Connection $http_connection;
    proxy_http_version 1.1;
    # Proxy!
    add_header       X-Served-By $host;
    proxy_set_header Host $host;
    proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Scheme $scheme;
    proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto  $scheme;
    proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For    $remote_addr;
    proxy_set_header X-Real-IP          $remote_addr;
    proxy_pass       $forward_scheme://$server:$port$request_uri;
  }
}

Building locally

To build and use it locally run the following commands:

docker build --pull --rm `
  -f "Dockerfile" `
  -t obsidian-remote:latest `
  "."

To run the localy build image:

docker run --rm -it `
  -v D:/ob/vaults:/vaults `
  -v D:/ob/config:/config `
  -p 8080:8080 `
  obsidian-remote:latest bash