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Papra

Papra

Papra is a minimalistic document management and archiving platform. Store, organize, tag, and full-text search your documents from a clean interface designed to stay out of your way. AGPL-3.0 licensed with 4,900+ GitHub stars.

At a glance

5k

GitHub stars

285

Active installs

License AGPL-3.0 Version Latest OS Ubuntu Server 24.04 LTS Min RAM 1 GB IP IPV4

Active installs is sample data (staging preview); real metric wires in before launch.

Accessing Papra

  • Open in browser: http://<SERVER_IP>:1221
  • Register a new account.
  • The first registered user becomes the administrator.

Important Files & Directories

  • Install Path: /root/papra
  • Compose File: /root/papra/docker-compose.yml
  • Environment File: /root/papra/.env
  • Data Directory: /root/papra/app-data
  • Database Path: /root/papra/app-data/db
  • Documents Path: /root/papra/app-data/documents

User Registration Settings

Authentication and registration settings can be customized by editing:

nano /root/papra/.env

To disable registration, set AUTH_IS_REGISTRATION_ENABLED=false.

Apply the changes with:

cd /root/papra
docker compose up -d

Managing the Stack

Change into the installation directory:

cd /root/papra

Check status:

docker compose ps

View logs:

docker compose logs -f

Restart the application:

docker compose restart

Stop the stack:

docker compose down

Start the stack:

docker compose up -d

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