Server installation

This pages describes installing Trilium on your own server. You might want to do this in case you want to setup sync or you want to use it as online version of Trilium accessible from anywhere.

There are three options how to do this, each one with some advantage:

• Recommended: Docker
• Packaged server installation
• Manual installation

Server installation has both desktop and mobile frontend.

Configuration

For server installations, you might want to configure e.g. port or TLS. This is done in the Trilium config file, by default it's in ~/trilium-data/config.ini (where ~ is your home directory).

Config location

config.ini, document and some other important Trilium data files are by default persisted in trilium-data directory placed in your home directory.

If this is not desired, you may change it via TRILIUM_DATA_DIR environment variable to some other location, e.g.:

export TRILIUM_DATA_DIR=/home/myuser/data/my-trilium-data

Reverse proxy setup

nginx

location /trilium/ {
    proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8080/;
    proxy_http_version 1.1;
    proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
    proxy_set_header Connection 'upgrade';
    proxy_set_header Host $host;
    proxy_cache_bypass $http_upgrade;
}

It's also advised to add following to server {} block to not limit size of payloads:

# set to 0 for unlimited. Default is 1M.
client_max_body_size 0;

Apache

See Apache proxy setup.