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Reboot-persistence and hot-plug become loud durable warnings instead of refusals, and the --allow-transient flag goes away — there is nothing left for it to unlock. The reasoning, recorded in §6.1 so it isn't relitigated: "not in fstab" and "removable" describe a supported setup, not a broken one — the media library on a USB disk is a reason to want this feature at all. Refusing there fails an honest user on their first reasonable attempt and teaches them to hunt for an override rather than read the warning. We can afford to allow it because the dangerous moment is start-up, not registration, and start-up is already gated: no marker, no location, appDir fails and dockerComposeUp refuses. Blocking at registration buys nothing the runtime doesn't already enforce. So the obligation moves from prevent to inform, and "loud" has to mean durable rather than a toast: the consequence in plain words plus a ready-to-copy fstab line at registration, a standing badge on the location for as long as it holds, and a start-up refusal that names the cause instead of failing generically. Fitness checks now refuse only when a location cannot work at all (checks 1-5), never for merely needing care. Wizard cards get three distinct states, with warned fully selectable and explicitly not second-class. Marked the §10.1 gate load-bearing: it is now the only thing between an unmounted disk and an app rebuilding itself empty, so anything that relaxes it has to revisit §6.1 as well. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
LibrePortal
Your own private corner of the internet — free, open, and yours.
LibrePortal is a self-hosted platform for running the apps you rely on, on your own server: one-click installs, a reverse proxy with automatic SSL, rootless Docker, optional VPN routing, and a clean web dashboard to manage it all.
⚠️ v0.1.0 — early days. Expect rough edges while things settle.
Why LibrePortal
Too many services today treat your data as theirs to take — quietly overstepping boundaries that should never have been crossed. LibrePortal grew out of frustration with that: it's a way to run the apps you depend on on your own server, where your data stays yours. Privacy here isn't a feature to toggle — it's the whole point.
Free & open — forever
The entire platform is free software under the GNU AGPLv3. Self-host it and you get everything — every feature, no paywalls, no telemetry. See our Promise for exactly what that means.
What you get
- 📦 One-click self-hosted apps (Nextcloud, Vaultwarden, Jellyfin, Gitea, …)
- 🔀 Traefik reverse proxy + automatic Let's Encrypt SSL
- 🔒 Rootless Docker, CrowdSec, sane security defaults
- 🛡️ Optional VPN routing (gluetun) for any app
- 🖥️ A web dashboard to install, configure, back up, and monitor everything
Quick start
curl -fsSL https://get.libreportal.org/install.sh | sudo bash
This installs a versioned, checksum-verified release (Debian/Ubuntu, root). Put
data on separate disks with --system-dir= / --containers-dir= / --backups-dir=.
The
get.libreportal.orghost is still being set up — until it's live, build a release and install from it locally (see the docs below).
Documentation
- docs/guide/install-and-use.md — install, place data on separate disks/drives, update, back up, uninstall.
- docs/contributing/development.md — run a dev copy, cut stable/edge releases, and test them before publishing.
LibrePortal Connect (optional)
Self-hosting is free and complete. If you'd rather not fiddle with the tricky parts — like reaching your server from your phone, or keeping off-site backups — LibrePortal Connect will handle them for you. Here's the catch that makes us different: we work like a courier carrying a sealed box. We move your data between your devices and store backup copies, but it stays locked and you hold the only key — we can't open it, and we never run your apps for you. Everything we offer, you can also set up yourself for free. Our Promise spells out exactly where that line sits.
Contributing
PRs welcome — see CONTRIBUTING.md. We use a lightweight
DCO sign-off (git commit -s), no CLA.
Acknowledgments
LibrePortal has been built from scratch since 2023. Its spark of inspiration
was a small installer script from Brian McGonagill (OpenSourceIsAwesome):
gitlab.com/bmcgonag/docker_installs.
From that seed it grew start to finish — refined, extended, and refactored
into the platform it is today.
License
GNU AGPLv3. What's open stays open.