FileBrowser Login

What app is this about, and its version: Filebrowser
What YunoHost version are you running: 12.1.36
What type of hardware are you using: Other(?)

Describe your issue

Hardware: Lenovo ThinkServer TS140 - 4 x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1225 v3 – 2 Cores - 8GB RAM
I have access to my server: SSH & Web Admin

Hi, I have installed Filebrowser. When I enter the username and password I chose on installation, it says “Wrong credentials”. On previous installations I looked in the logs to see the automatically generated password, but there is none there and the username and password I chose on installation do not work either (see log below). Any idea what I can do to get it working?

Share relevant logs or error messages

Nov 29 19:28:24 filebrowser[8694]: 2025/11/29 19:28:24 Using config file: /var/www/filebrowser/settings.json
Nov 29 19:28:24 filebrowser[8694]: 2025/11/29 19:28:24 WARNING: filebrowser.db can’t be found. Initialing in /var/www/filebrowser/database.db
Nov 29 19:28:24 filebrowser[8694]: 2025/11/29 19:28:24 Using database: /var/www/filebrowser/database.db
Nov 29 19:28:24 filebrowser[8694]: 2025/11/29 19:28:24 Performing quick setup
Nov 29 19:28:24 filebrowser[8694]: 2025/11/29 19:28:24 User ‘[MYUSERNAME]’ initialize wth user-provided password
Nov 29 19:28:24 filebrowser[8694]: 2025/11/29 19:28:24 Listening on 127.0.0.1:42583
Nov 29 19:28:27 filebrowser[8694]: 2025/11/29 19:28:27 /api/renew: 401 [MYIP]
Nov 29 19:28:28 filebrowser[8694]: 2025/11/29 19:28:28 /api/renew: 401 [MYIP]
Nov 29 19:28:55 filebrowser[8694]: 2025/11/29 19:28:55 /api/login: 403 [MYIP]
Nov 29 19:29:00 filebrowser[8694]: 2025/11/29 19:29:00 /api/login: 403 [MYIP]
Nov 29 19:29:01 filebrowser[8694]: 2025/11/29 19:29:01 /api/login: 403 [MYIP]

Edit /var/www/filebrowser/settings.json

On a fresh install it seems that it doesn’t use the right database.

Changing

  "database": "/var/www/filebrowser/database.db"

to

  "database": "/var/www/filebrowser/filebrowser.db"

and

systemctl restart filebrowser

makes it work.

But when upgrading …?

Let us know !

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