[5 Minutes Docker Series] Deploy A Free File List App for Multiple Cloud Storages – Alist

•  Easy to deploy and out-of-the-box
•  File preview (PDF, markdown, code, plain text, …)
•  Image preview in gallery mode
•  Video and audio preview, support lyrics and subtitles (More formats supported, such as MKV, MP4, etc)
•  Office documents preview (docx, pptx, xlsx, …)
•  README.md preview rendering
•  File permalink copy and direct file download
•  Dark mode
•  I18n
•  Protected routes (password protection and authentication)
•  WebDav (see https://alist.nn.ci/guide/webdav.html for details)
•  Docker Deploy
•  Cloudflare workers proxy
•  File/Folder package download
•  Web upload(Can allow visitors to upload), delete, mkdir, rename, move and copy
•  Offline download
•  Copy files between two storage

Support Multiple Storages

•  Local storage
• aliyundriveopen in new window
•  OneDrive / Sharepoint (globalopen in new window, cnopen in new window,de,us）
• 189cloudopen in new window (Personal, Family)
• GoogleDriveopen in new window
• 123panopen in new window
• Alistopen in new window
•  FTP
•  SFTP
• PikPakopen in new window
• S3open in new window
• UPYUN Storage Serviceopen in new window
•  WebDAV
•  Teambition（Chinaopen in new window，Internationalopen in new window）
• mediatrackopen in new window
• 139yunopen in new window (Personal, Family)
• YandexDiskopen in new window
• BaiduNetdiskopen in new window
• Quarkopen in new window
• Thunderopen in new window
• Lanzouopen in new window
• Aliyundrive shareopen in new window
• Google photoopen in new window
• Mega.nzopen in new window
• Baidu photoopen in new window
•  SMB
• 115open in new window

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Docker Run to Deploy

docker run -d --restart=always -v /etc/alist:/opt/alist/data -p 5244:5244 --name="alist" xhofe/alist:latest

docker run -d --restart=always -v /etc/alist:/opt/alist/data -p 5244:5244 --name="alist" xhofe/alist:main

docker logs alist
# or
docker exec -it alist ./alist password

• https://hub.docker.com/r/xhofe/alist

Docker Run AList from https://labs.play-with-docker.com/

Koyeb​

• https://github.com/alist-org/alist-koyeb

Render​

• https://github.com/alist-org/alist-render

Railway​

• https://github.com/alist-org/alist-railway

Easy to use but easy to violate ToS too.

Heroku​

• https://github.com/alist-org/alist-heroku-postgres

You may need to use another remote MySQL database as instance restarts will lose data. Recommended Free MySQL Databases:

• https://db4free.net/
• https://remotemysql.com/
• https://www.freesqldatabase.com/
• https://freedb.tech/

Local 

• https://blog.51sec.org/2023/01/alist-advanced-usages.html

C:\Users\admin>cd \alist-windows-amd64

C:\alist-windows-amd64>dir
 Volume in drive C has no label.
 Volume Serial Number is BC7D-56BE

 Directory of C:\alist-windows-amd64

12/27/2022  10:59 PM    <DIR>          .
12/27/2022  10:59 PM    <DIR>          ..
11/22/2022  09:01 AM        11,446,272 alist.exe
               1 File(s)     11,446,272 bytes
               2 Dir(s)  155,723,272,192 bytes free

C:\alist-windows-amd64>alist
A file list program that supports multiple storage,
built with love by Xhofe and friends in Go/Solid.js.
Complete documentation is available at https://alist.nn.ci/

Usage:
  alist [command]

Available Commands:
  admin       Show admin user's info
  cancel2fa   Delete 2FA of admin user
  completion  Generate the autocompletion script for the specified shell
  help        Help about any command
  lang        Generate language json file
  restart     Restart alist server by daemon/pid file
  server      Start the server at the specified address
  start       Silent start alist server with `--force-bin-dir`
  stop        Stop alist server by daemon/pid file
  version     Show current version of AList

Flags:
      --data string     config file (default "data")
      --debug           start with debug mode
      --dev             start with dev mode
      --force-bin-dir   Force to use the directory where the binary file is located as data directory
  -h, --help            help for alist
      --no-prefix       disable env prefix

Use "alist [command] --help" for more information about a command.

C:\alist-windows-amd64>alist server
INFO[2022-12-27 22:59:34] reading config file: data\config.json
INFO[2022-12-27 22:59:34] config file not exists, creating default config file
INFO[2022-12-27 22:59:34] load config from env with prefix: ALIST_
INFO[2022-12-27 22:59:34] init logrus...
INFO[2022-12-27 22:59:34] Successfully created the admin user and the initial password is: i3OvsBbu
INFO[2022-12-27 22:59:39] Aria2 not ready.
INFO[2022-12-27 22:59:39] start server @ 0.0.0.0:5244

But using http://127.0.0.1:5244/ works

Set ws = CreateObject("Wscript.Shell")
ws.run "alist.exe server",vbhide

Videos

 Using Docker Run to Deploy:

Online AList Sites

• https://store.vvhan.com/
• My Demo: https://alist.51sec.org   Just in case you are interesting on how it looks like after logged in, here is a sharing folder ‘s read access only account:user: testuser1   pass: TestUser1!