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Installing SilverBullet as a (local) web server is pretty straightforward, if youre comfortable with the terminal, at least.
The basic setup is simple: in a terminal, run the silverbullet server process on your machine, then connect to it locally from your browser via localhost.
You have two options here:
1. Installation via [[$deno|Deno]] (the awesome JavaScript runtime)
2. Installation via [[$docker|Docker]] (the awesome container runtime)
After choose either, be sure to checkout all [[Install/Configuration]] options as well.
# Installing using Deno
$deno
This consists of two steps (unless [Deno](https://deno.com/) is already installed — in which case were down to one):
1. [Install Deno](https://deno.land/manual/getting_started/installation)
2. Install SilverBullet itself (steps below)
After having installed Deno ([instructions on its website](https://docs.deno.com/runtime/manual/getting_started/installation)) run:
```shell
deno install -f --name silverbullet --unstable -A https://get.silverbullet.md
```
You only have to do this once.
This will give you (and when you use `silverbullet upgrade`) the latest stable release. If you prefer to live on the bleeding edge, you can install using the following command instead:
```shell
deno install -f --name silverbullet --unstable -A https://silverbullet.md/silverbullet.js
```
Either command will install `silverbullet` into your `~/.deno/bin` folder (which should already be in your `$PATH` if you followed the Deno install instructions).
To run SilverBullet, create a folder for your pages (it can be empty or be an existing folder with `.md` files) and run the following command in your terminal:
```shell
silverbullet <pages-path>
```
By default, SilverBullet will bind to port `3000`; to use a different port, use the `-p` flag.
For security reasons, by default, SilverBullet only allows connections via `localhost` (or `127.0.0.1`). To also allow connections from the network, pass a `-L0.0.0.0` flag (0.0.0.0 for all connections, or insert a specific address to limit the host), combined with `--user username:password` to add simple [[Authentication]].
Once downloaded and booted, SilverBullet will print out a URL to open in your browser.
## Upgrading SilverBullet
SilverBullet is regularly updated. To get the latest and greatest, simply run:
```shell
silverbullet upgrade
```
And restart SilverBullet. You should be good to go. Also run
```shell
deno upgrade
```
Regularly, to get the latest and greatest deno.
# Installing using Docker
$docker
There is a [docker image on docker hub](https://hub.docker.com/r/zefhemel/silverbullet). The image comes in two flavors:
* 64-bit Intel
* 64-bit ARM (e.g. for Raspberry Pis and Macs)
There is no 32-bit version of Deno, and therefore we cannot offer a 32-bit version of SilverBullet either. Most people run 64-bit OSes these days, an exception may be Raspberry Pis. Recent (RPI 3 and later) can run 64-bit Linux as well, you may have to re-image, though.
A few key things to note on the SilverBullet container:
* The container binds to port `3000`, so be sure to export that, e.g. via `-p 3000:3000` (note: the first `3000` is the external port)
* The container uses whatever is volume-mapped to `/space` as the space root folder. You can connect a docker volume, or a host folder to this, e.g. `-v /home/myuser/space:/space`
* SilverBullet will, conveniently, detect the UNIX owner (UID and GID) of the folder mapped into `/space` and run the server process with the same UID and GID so that permissions will just magically work. If youd like to override this UID, set the `PUID` and `PGID` environment variables.
To boot up the container:
```shell
docker run -p 3000:3000 -v /path/to/space/folder:/space -d zefhemel/silverbullet
```
The `zefhemel/silverbullet` image will give you the latest released version. This is equivalent to `zefhemel/silverbullet:latest`. If you prefer, you can also pin to a specific release, e.g. `zefhemel/silverbullet:0.5.5`. If you prefer to live on the bleeding edge, you can use the `zefhemel/silverbullet:edge` image, which is updated on every commit to the `main` brain.
To configure various things such as authentication, use [[@env|environment variables]], e.g. to enable single-user auth:
```shell
docker run -p 3000:3000 -v myspace:/space -d -e SB_USER=me:letmein zefhemel/silverbullet
```
## Upgrade
You can upgrade your image simply by pulling a new version of the image using `docker pull zefhemel/silverbullet`. However, it is recommended you use a tool like [watchtower](https://github.com/containrrr/watchtower) to automatically update your docker images and restart them.
## Docker compose
Here is a simple `compose.yml` that runs SilverBullet as well as [watchtower](https://github.com/containrrr/watchtower), which will check for new SilverBullet upgrades daily (the default) and upgrade automatically.
Instructions:
* Please replace the password defined in `SB_USER` with something sensible such as `admin:b3stp4ssword3vah`
* This volume uses the `notes` directory (that presumably exists) in the same directory as the `compose.yml` file as the place where SB will keep its space.
```yaml
services:
silverbullet:
image: zefhemel/silverbullet:edge
restart: unless-stopped
environment:
- SB_USER="admin:admin"
volumes:
- ./notes:/space
ports:
- 3000:3000
watchtower:
image: containrrr/watchtower
volumes:
- /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock
```
Boot this up via:
```shell
docker-compose up -d
```
And watch for logs with:
```shell
docker-compose logs -f
```
## Building the docker image
To build your own version of the docker image, run `./scripts/build_docker.sh`.