Spotweb in Container Manager on Synology NAS

What is Spotweb?

To quote the GitHub page.

“Spotweb is a decentralized Usenet community based on the Spotnet protocol.”

It is essentially a self-hosted Usenet indexer that integrates with your favourite media managers such as Radarr, and I am going to walk you through setting this up in Docker on your Synology NAS

Let’s Begin

The guide has 2 pages:

• Page 1 – Folder setup and Container Manager
• Page 2 – Spotweb Changes and FAQ

Before we start with the main guide head over and follow these two guides to get a docker user and dedicated bridge network set up.

• Setting up a restricted Docker user
• Setting up a Docker Bridge Network

Folder Setup

Let’s start by getting some folders set up for the containers to use. Open up File Station create the following.

/docker/projects/spotweb-compose
/docker/spotweb-mariadb

The Container Manager Project

We are going to be using the Project feature of Container Manager (Docker Compose). Open up Container Manager and click on Project then on the right-hand side click ‘Create’.

In the next screen we will set up our General Settings, enter the following:

Next we are going to drop in our docker compose configuration copy all the code in the box below and paste it into line ‘1’ just like the screenshot.

What on earth is a Docker Compose?
Docker Compose allows us to define how Docker should set up one or more containers within a single configuration file. This file is yaml formatted and Container Manager uses the Projects feature to manage them.

services:
  spotweb:
    image: erikdevries/spotweb
    container_name: spotweb
    environment:
      - TZ=Europe/London #CHANGE_TO_YOUR_TZ
      - DB_PORT=3306
      - DB_HOST=172.20.0.1
      - DB_NAME=spotweb
      - DB_USER= #username from line 33
      - DB_PASS= #password from line 34
      - CRON_INTERVAL=*/5 * * * *
    ports:
      - 8085:80
    network_mode: synobridge
    depends_on:
      mariadb:
        condition: service_healthy
    security_opt:
      - no-new-privileges:true
    restart: always

  mariadb:
    image: linuxserver/mariadb:latest
    container_name: mariadb
    environment:
      - MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=StRoNgPa55WoRd
      - PUID=1234 #CHANGE_TO_YOUR_UID
      - PGID=65432 #CHANGE_TO_YOUR_GID
      - TZ=Europe/London #CHANGE_TO_YOUR_TZ
      - MYSQL_DATABASE=spotweb
      - MYSQL_USER= #A username
      - MYSQL_PASSWORD= # Another database password
    volumes:
      - /volume1/docker/spotweb-mariadb:/config
    ports:
      - 3306:3306
    network_mode: synobridge
    healthcheck:
      test: ["CMD", "mysqladmin" ,"ping", "-h", "172.20.0.1"]
      timeout: 20s
      retries: 10
    security_opt:
      - no-new-privileges:true
    restart: always

Environment Variables

We need to make some changes in order for the containers to have the correct permissions to save configuration files and set up an appropriate database.

First lets cover off the amendments for the MariaDB container, you will adjust these after the = for each variable

Next we are going to amend the Spotweb container section.

Once done click ‘Next’

You do not need to enable anything on the ‘Web portal settings’ screen click ‘Next’ again.

On the final screen click ‘Done’ which will begin the download of the container images and once downloaded they will be launched!

The images will now be downloaded and extracted. You should see ‘Code 0’ when it has finished.

OK you should now see our project running with a Green status however we are not quite done yet.

Depending on your NAS and drive speed just hold fire for 5 mins while the initial database is configured. You will see this in the Spotweb Log Files.

Firewall Exceptions

(Skip if you don’t have the Firewall configured)

If you have enabled and configured the Synology Firewall you will need to create exceptions for any containers that have a Web UI or have any incoming or outgoing connections. This section covers the basics of how to add these. (Please note this is a generic section and will not show the specific ports in this guide however it applies in the same way)

Head into the Control Panel> Security > Firewall, from here click Edit Rules for the profile you set up when you enabled the Firewall.

Next click on Create and you will see the screen below. Source IP and Action will be automatically selected to All and Allow, I will leave it up to you as to your own preference on whether you want to lock down specific Source IPs from having access. In this example we will leave as All.

You will now choose ‘Select from a list of built-in applications‘ and then the Select button

Now from the list choose the newly created Docker container (You can do more than one if you wish)

Click OK a couple of times to get back to the main screen. You will see by default the new rule is added to the bottom of the list. You must always have your Block All rule last in the list as the rules are applied top down so move your container up.

You have now completed the Firewall changes and can continue with the guide.

Container set up completed

You can navigate to your NASIP:8085 after a few minutes and should be greeted by an empty Spotweb UI (if you get a load of text at the top of a white screen wait a little longer as the database is still being configured)

We will come back to add some additional settings a little later in the guide. You can now move on to Page 2.

Pages: 1 2