certyiknofetch/memora repository overview

⁠Memora

Your memories, beautifully preserved. Fully private. Fully yours.

Memora is a self-hosted photo and video management application built for privacy-first users who want complete control over their media. Deploy it on your own server, NAS, or Raspberry Pi in under a minute.

⁠Highlights

• No cloud dependency -- your photos stay on your hardware
• Multi-architecture -- runs on amd64 and arm64 (Raspberry Pi, Apple Silicon, AWS Graviton)
• Single container -- no external databases, caches, or services required
• Zero config start -- just docker run and go; secrets are auto-generated

⁠Quick Start

⁠One-liner

docker run -d \
  --name memora \
  -p 8000:8000 \
  -v memora_uploads:/app/uploads \
  -v memora_db:/app/db_data \
  -v memora_data:/app/data \
  --restart unless-stopped \
  certyiknofetch/memora:latest

Open http://localhost:8000⁠ -- the first registered user automatically becomes the admin.

⁠Docker Compose

services:
  memora:
    image: certyiknofetch/memora:latest
    container_name: memora
    ports:
      - "8000:8000"
    volumes:
      - ./uploads:/app/uploads
      - ./db_data:/app/db_data
      - ./data:/app/data
    restart: unless-stopped

docker compose up -d

⁠Features

⁠Media Management

⁠Security

⁠Administration

⁠Supported Architectures

The image is a multi-platform manifest -- Docker automatically pulls the correct architecture for your system.

⁠Tags

⁠Volumes

⁠Environment Variables

⁠Running Behind a Reverse Proxy

When placing Memora behind Nginx, Caddy, Nginx Proxy Manager, or Traefik, set USE_HTTPS=true so cookies use the Secure flag and HSTS headers are sent.

⁠Nginx Proxy Manager

1. Set Forward Hostname to memora (container name) and Forward Port to 8000
2. Enable Force SSL and HTTP/2
3. Under Advanced, add: client_max_body_size 2048M;

⁠Caddy

photos.example.com {
    reverse_proxy memora:8000
    request_body {
        max_size 2GB
    }
}

⁠Nginx

server {
    listen 443 ssl http2;
    server_name photos.example.com;
    client_max_body_size 2048M;

    location / {
        proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8000;
        proxy_set_header Host $host;
        proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
    }
}

⁠Backup & Restore

⁠Backup

docker compose stop memora
tar -czvf memora-backup-$(date +%Y%m%d).tar.gz uploads/ db_data/ data/
docker compose start memora

⁠Restore

docker compose stop memora
tar -xzvf memora-backup-20260217.tar.gz
docker compose start memora

⁠API Documentation

Once running, interactive API docs are available at:

⁠Tech Stack

⁠Quick Reference

⁠Source Code

The source code is available on GitHub. Contributions, issues, and feature requests are welcome.

⁠License

MIT License -- free for personal and commercial use.