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Adds the three surfaces the plan was missing, and the check suite that gates them. §6 splits validation in two, which is the point: admission (§3) is a security question answered by the root helper and it refuses; fitness is "will app data actually work here", needs no privilege, and therefore can be run speculatively against a disk the user hasn't chosen — which is what lets the wizard grade candidates before anything is committed. Ten checks, of which two are worth calling out: a real chown probe, because NFS root_squash reports a healthy nfs4 and then can't chown; and reboot persistence, because hand-mount → register → install Nextcloud → reboot is §10.1's disaster on day one. Checks recur on the crontab rather than only gating at add time — a location that passed in March can be full, read-only or unplugged by June. §7 adds the setup-wizard Storage step. It follows the Metrics precedent for a conditional step but with a better trigger: only appear if the box has somewhere else to put things, so the one-disk case is untouched. Candidate detection has to filter hard — this dev box has ~15 snap loop devices to drop before the real answer shows. Refused candidates render greyed with the reason rather than vanishing. §5.2 puts the resolved path in the field's comment for hand-recovery, written only on change (install, move, or a regen that finds it stale) so it isn't churn on a user-editable file in the container-owned tree. It's a breadcrumb: nothing reads it to decide anything, and the WebUI panel composes its description from appDir so the editor is right even when the comment is stale. Phasing regrouped to 7 phases; §10.4 folded into §6; open question 5 resolved (build the flag — unattended installs have no wizard). 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.