When run docker command to start the open-webui without internet, one issue occurred.

[quzhixue-Kimi]

Hi there,

I just download, export and import the docker image from one ubuntu 20.04 to a new ubuntu 20.04 server. The new ubuntu 20.04 server has no internet.

Based on the doc with below command:
docker run -d -p 3000:8080 --add-host=host.docker.internal:host-gateway -v open-webui:/app/backend/data --name open-webui --restart always ghcr.io/open-webui/open-webui:main

The containers ran, but wait for a moment. It restarted. I ran docker logs -f open-webui to check the log:
Here is the screen shot of the log. It seems that the container would like to download and load some models from huggingface.co based on internet.

It is appreciated that you may tell me whether there is any environment variable to be set without internet or not?

BR
Kimi

[justinh-rahb]

WHISPER_MODEL_AUTO_UPDATE=False
RAG_EMBEDDING_MODEL_AUTO_UPDATE=False

[quzhixue-Kimi]

Hi there,

Thank you for replying me with these helpful information.
I double check the official document via https://docs.openwebui.com/getting-started/env-configuration
These two environment variables made 'False' as the default value.
Even, I ran the command as below to re-try:

docker run -itd -p 8080:8080 --add-host=host.docker.internal:host-gateway -e WHISPER_MODEL_AUTO_UPDATE=False -e RAG_EMBEDDING_MODEL_AUTO_UPDATE=False -v /data:/app/backend/data --name open-webui --restart always ghcr.io/open-webui/open-webui:main

The container restarted always due to the error as 'Fail to connect https://huggingface.co/' (There is no internel with my product server!)

It is appreciated that you may help to review my issue, any feedback is greatful.

BR
Kimi

[quzhixue-Kimi]

Hi there,

Thank you for replying me with these helpful information.
I double check the official document via https://docs.openwebui.com/getting-started/env-configuration
These two environment variables made 'False' as the default value.
Even, I ran the command as below to re-try:

docker run -itd -p 8080:8080 --add-host=host.docker.internal:host-gateway -e WHISPER_MODEL_AUTO_UPDATE=False -e RAG_EMBEDDING_MODEL_AUTO_UPDATE=False -v /data:/app/backend/data --name open-webui --restart always ghcr.io/open-webui/open-webui:main

The container restarted always due to the error as 'Fail to connect https://huggingface.co' (There is no internel with my product server!)

It is appreciated that you may help to review my issue, any feedback is greatful.

BR
Kimi

[cheahjs]

We pre-load the Whisper and embedding models at build time into /app/backend/data/cache. By using a bind mount instead of a volume with -v /data:/app/backend/data, this obscures the existing cache, hence the need to connect to HuggingFace to fetch models.

If you need to use a bind mount, you will want to take a copy of the existing /app/backend/data directory with something like docker run -it -v /data:/data ghcr.io/open-webui/open-webui:main cp -r /app/backend/data/. /data/

[quzhixue-Kimi]

Hi there,

Thank you very much. With your suggestion, my issue has been fixed.

Thank you for your great help again.

BR
Kimi