Overview

🗂️ FileRise – lightweight, self-hosted file manager & storage hub with granular ACLs, resumable uploads, encrypted folders, WebDAV & SSO. Fully Docker / Unraid compatible. FileRise is a self-hosted file hub with sharing, WebDAV, strong ACLs, client portals, automation, and a permissions-aware AI workspace for structured extraction and approval-gated workflows. The project has 930 GitHub stars and is licensed under MIT.

Key Features

Source: GitHub README

💾 Self-hosted “cloud drive” – Runs anywhere with PHP (or via Docker). No external database required.
🔐 Granular per-folder ACLs – Manage View (all/own), Upload, Create, Edit, Rename, Move, Copy, Delete, Extract, Share, and more — all enforced consistently across the UI, API, and WebDAV.
🔗 Link File (authenticated deep links) – Generate internal links to specific files, require login + ACL checks, and open directly to the target in the app.
🤝 Folder and file sharing – Share folders for browsing or upload-only file requests, protect links with passwords/expiration, and share individual files with generated links.
📥 File Request links (upload-only) – Share upload-only links so external users can submit files into a folder without browsing existing files.
📄 PDF viewing + optional local PDF thumbnails – View PDFs inline in the preview modal, and optionally enable first-page PDF thumbnails for gallery cards and hover previews using pdftoppm.
🔐 Folder-level encryption at rest (optional) – Encrypt entire folders (and all descendants) on disk using modern authenticated encryption.
Opt-in per folder with inherited protection for subfolders
Files are stored encrypted on disk and transparently decrypted on download
Master key can be generated by FileRise or supplied via environment variable

Getting Started

Source: GitHub README

The easiest way to run FileRise is the official Docker image.

✅ Tip: For stability, pin a version tag (example: error311/filerise-docker:vX.Y.Z) instead of :latest. See Releases for current versions.

Normalized Features

Source: tool-features-normalized.json

docker, docker compose, helm, kubernetes, rest api, sso, two factor auth, webhooks.

Deploy

Docker

Self-host with Docker Compose

Coolify

One-click via Coolify panel

Elestio

Managed hosting from $9/mo

PikaPods

Simple managed hosting

Features

Authentication & Access

Single Sign-On (SSO)
Two-Factor Authentication

Integrations & APIs

REST API
Webhooks

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