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#1658 reports that app, web, db and redis have no restart policy, so the
stack does not come back after a reboot. True, and fixed here — but the
file it is about is the development stack, and the production example has
had the policy all along. The reporter got there by following DOCKER.md,
which is #1627 again: 745f24c fixed the README's pointer and left this
page's body describing a stack no user should be running.
Against an image install almost every procedure on it was wrong. It said
uploads live in `storage/app/files/` "in the project directory" and `.env`
beside it — both are on the storage volume, and the entrypoint generates
that `.env` itself. Its compose.override.yaml recipe bind-mounted into
app, web, worker and scheduler, which are one container under supervisord
in the image, at a path one level too deep to carry APP_KEY. It told
people to chown a directory the entrypoint already chowns, to rsync from a
host path that does not exist, and to `git pull` to upgrade. Its mysqldump
read ${DB_ROOT_PASSWORD} from a .env an image install does not have, so
the documented backup silently fell back to `root` and failed. Docker Hub
links this page as "where your data lives, backups, moving to another
server".
So it is now about the image, and shorter for it: two volumes instead of
three loose things, the key explained where people actually lose it, no
override file because the compose file is the operator's own, and a
reboot section — the answer to the issue for anyone who wrote their own
compose. The clone-and-build stack keeps one pointer to CONTRIBUTING.md,
which has been the correct place for it since #1627.
The Docker Hub page keeps the two facts a reader who never leaves it
needs and hands off the procedures, so the drift that caused this has one
copy to go wrong instead of two.
Adminer and mailpit stay without a restart policy on purpose: those come
up for a session, not for the life of the machine.
Refs #1658
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
ProjectSend
Share files with your clients, from your own server.
ProjectSend is a self-hosted application for getting files to the people you work with. You upload what you want to send, choose exactly who can see it, and each client signs in to their own private page to download it.
No public link passed around by email, no third-party service holding your clients' documents, no per-seat pricing. It runs on your server, and the files stay there.
What it does
For the people you send to
- A private area per client, showing only what has been shared with them
- Sign in with an email address, with optional two-factor authentication
- Search, filter and sort their files; download one, several as a zip, or a whole folder
- Optional comments on a file, so questions live next to the thing they are about
- Email notifications when something new arrives, in their own language
For you
- Resumable uploads that survive a dropped connection, so large files actually arrive
- Organise with folders, categories and client groups
- Share with one client, a whole group, or publicly — and set an expiry date or a download limit
- Thumbnails and previews for images and documents
- Storage quotas per client, and custom fields for the details you need to keep on them
- A full activity log and download history: who got what, and when
For the installation
- Roles and permissions for your own team, so an uploader is not an administrator
- Sign-in the way you already work: LDAP, social sign-in, or plain email and password
- Themes for the client-facing pages and for outgoing email
- 16 languages
- A REST API with scoped tokens and generated OpenAPI docs
- Privacy controls, including GDPR-grade account erasure with a grace period
- Local disk or S3-compatible storage
Screenshots
The dashboard — what is in the installation, and what has been happening in it.
Your library — folders, categories, and who each file is shared with.
What your client sees — only their files, nothing else.
Getting started
With Docker — the quickest path, and the one we recommend. Nothing to build: the published image ships with its dependencies and its frontend already compiled.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/projectsend/projectsend/main/docker/production/compose.example.yaml
# edit the passwords and APP_URL in it, then:
docker compose -f compose.example.yaml up -d
Open APP_URL and the first thing you see is a setup screen that creates your administrator
account — or set ADMIN_EMAIL and ADMIN_PASSWORD in the file first and it is created for you.
Before you put real files in it, read DOCKER.md — where your database and uploads actually live, how to move them onto paths you chose, and how to back them up so an upgrade can't take them with it.
Without Docker — for servers where it isn't an option, install from a release zip.
INSTALL.md covers requirements, .env, nginx, the background worker and cron,
updating and troubleshooting. You do not need Composer or npm on the server; the zip ships ready to
run.
Already running it? UPDATE.md is how you move to a new version — one command on Docker, one script on your own server, and what to check afterwards either way.
Want to work on ProjectSend itself? Cloning the repository gets you a development copy, not an installation: the dependencies and the compiled frontend are deliberately not in git, so a clone needs Composer and npm before it runs. CONTRIBUTING.md has the sequence, and it is short.
Coming from ProjectSend Legacy?
The previous generation of ProjectSend lives on at projectsend/legacy. This is a rebuild rather than an upgrade, so moving across is an import rather than an update — install fresh, then bring your old site into it with the migration tool: accounts, clients, groups, categories, folders, files and history.
It never writes to your old install, and any run can be undone with a single command. MIGRATING-FROM-V1.md explains what comes across, the two routes (same machine, or a portable export from a server you can't reach), and the one change your clients will notice: they sign in with their email address now, using the same password.
Contributing
Bug reports, translations and pull requests are all welcome — see CONTRIBUTING.md for how to set up a development copy, what the checks are, and the contributor agreement.
Found a security issue? Please report it privately through GitHub's security advisories rather than opening a public issue.
License
Free software under the GNU General Public License v2, or (at your option) any later version — see LICENSE. Use it, study it, change it, share it.
Commercial licenses are available for organizations that cannot work under copyleft terms; LICENSING.md explains both options. Contributions require signing a CLA, for reasons set out in CONTRIBUTING.md.