How to deploy audiobookshelf

Posted on 2025-07-22 In Tutorial Views: Word count in article: 1.9k Reading time ≈ 2 mins.

Recently, I watched 3 body problem TV series made by Tencent. However, it only finished first of three parts of original book. But I want to see more. I did not like reading so I decide to listen to audiobooks. Here I record how to deploy Audiobookshelf with apache2.

How to install Audiobookshelf using docker compose

Log into your server as root

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mkdir audiobookshelf
cd audiobookshelf/
vim docker-compose.yaml

services:
  audiobookshelf:
    image: ghcr.io/advplyr/audiobookshelf:latest
    ports:
      - "127.0.0.1:13378:80"
    volumes:
      - /srv/downloads/audiobookshelf:/audiobooks
      - ./podcasts:/podcasts
      - ./config:/config
      - ./metadata:/metadata
    environment:
      - TZ=Europe/Stockholm

1	docker compose up -d

Configure apache2

1	vim /etc/apache2/sites-available/audio.example.com.conf

<VirtualHost *:80>
  ServerName  audio.example.com

  RewriteEngine On
  RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
  RewriteRule ^ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:443>
    ServerName audio.example.com

    SSLEngine on
    SSLCertificateFile /etc/letsencrypt/live/audio.example.com/fullchain.pem
    SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/letsencrypt/live/audio.example.com/privkey.pem

    ProxyPreserveHost On
    ProxyPass / http://127.0.0.1:13378/
    ProxyPassReverse / http://127.0.0.1:13378/
    RewriteEngine on
    RewriteCond %{HTTP:Upgrade} websocket [NC]
    RewriteCond %{HTTP:Connection} upgrade [NC]
    RewriteRule ^/?(.*) "ws://127.0.0.1:13378/$1" [P,L]
    
    # Set the maximum allowed size for the client request body
    LimitRequestBody 1024000000
    
    # Headers to pass to the backend server
    #RequestHeader set Host $host
    RequestHeader set X-Real-IP $remote_addr
    RequestHeader set X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for
    RequestHeader set REMOTE-HOST $remote_addr
    RequestHeader set X-Forwarded-Proto https

</VirtualHost>

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a2ensite audio.example.com.conf
service apache2 restart
certbot --apache -d audio.example.com

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