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Open WebUI

Making Open-WebUI accessible across the network​

1. Download Docker​

Download and Install docker for your OS from Get Started | Docker or Install | Docker Docs

If you want help with docker commands, see this

2. Run Open-WebUI using docker to make it accessible across the network​

This uses CUDA for GPU Accelerated performance for LLMs

sudo docker run -d --network=host -v open-webui:/app/backend/data -e OLLAMA_BASE_URL=http://127.0.0.1:11434 --name open-webui-main --restart always ghcr.io/open-webui/open-webui:cuda

Update Open-WebUI​

1. List all running Docker Containers​

sudo docker ps -a

2. Stop running Open-WebUI Docker Container​

sudo docker stop <container_id/name>

Example: sudo docker stop 13800bf6b9a1


3. Remove that container (don't worry it won't remove the data/volume of Open-WebUI)​

sudo docker rm -f <container_id/name_with_tag>

Example: sudo docker rm -f open-webui:cuda


4. Pull the latest image from Open-WebUI GitHub/Website​

Note: This will take some time

sudo docker pull ghcr.io/open-webui/open-webui:cuda

5. Start the docker container of Open-WebUI again​

sudo docker run -d --network=host -v open-webui:/app/backend/data -e OLLAMA_BASE_URL=http://127.0.0.1:11434 --name open-webui --restart always ghcr.io/open-webui/open-webui:cuda

  • If it is causing some errors like

    docker: Error response from daemon: Conflict. The container name "/open-webui" is already in use by container "6a5b7aaf852410d4c6eccb27bf91c32ec25252e84eb81cab1c2d5cb89cc49bb0". You have to remove (or rename) that container to be able to reuse that name.
    See 'docker run --help'.

  • List the running docker containers using sudo docker ps -a

  • Then remove the container with name conflict, example sudo docker rm -f open-webui

  • Rerun the sudo docker run ... open-webui:cuda again


6. Check whether Open-WebUI is accessible in the browser​

http://<mother_computer_ip>:<port_number>

Example: http://192.168.1.230:8080