Setting up gotify/server with docker is pretty easy, you basically just have to start the docker container and you are ready to go:

Before starting gotify/server you may read the Configuration if you f.ex. use a different database.

$ docker run -p 80:80 -v /var/gotify/data:/app/data gotify/server
# or via GitHub registry
$ docker run -p 80:80 -v /var/gotify/data:/app/data ghcr.io/gotify/server

gotify/server and ghcr.io/gotify/server are multi-arch docker images, they will work for the architectures: amd64, i386, arm64, armv7, and riscv64.

/app/data contains the database file (if sqlite is used), images for applications and cert-files (if lets encrypt is enabled). In this example the directory is mounted to /var/gotify/data this directory should be included in a backup.

The time zone inside the container is configurable via the TZ environment variable:

$ docker run -p 80:80 -e TZ="Europe/Berlin" -v /var/gotify/data:/app/data gotify/server

::: details Example docker-compose.yaml

---
services:
  gotify:
    image: gotify/server
    ports:
      - 8080:80
    environment:
      GOTIFY_DEFAULTUSER_PASS: 'admin'
    volumes:
      - './gotify_data:/app/data'
    # to run gotify as a dedicated user:
    # sudo chown -R 1234:1234 ./gotify_data
    # user: "1234:1234"

:::

Latest version:

• linux-amd64 (64bit)
• linux-386 (32bit)
• linux-arm-7 (32bit used for Raspberry Pi)
• linux-arm64 (ARMv8)
• windows-386.exe (32bit)
• windows-amd64.exe (64bit)

Download the zip with the binary for your platform from gotify/server Releases.

This tutorial uses placeholders for the version and the platform. You have to replace {VERSION} with the most recent version and {PLATFORM} with one of the supported platforms.

$ wget https://github.com/gotify/server/releases/download/v{VERSION}/gotify-{PLATFORM}.zip

Unzip the archive.

$ unzip gotify-{PLATFORM}.zip

Make the binary executable.

$ chmod +x gotify-{PLATFORM}

Execute gotify/server. (By default gotify/server is started on port 80 so it requires sudo)

Before starting gotify/server you may read the Configuration if you f.ex. want to change the port or use a different database.

$ sudo ./gotify-{PLATFORM}

See build.