{"id":4841,"date":"2025-01-23T01:57:05","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T01:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qworqs.com\/blog\/?p=4841"},"modified":"2025-07-08T16:30:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T16:30:08","slug":"openwebui","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.voodoo.business\/blog\/2025\/01\/23\/openwebui\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenWebUI"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>1- Installing as docker container<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Install docker like you would, by adding its repositories or however you are used to installing it<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><code><code>sudo apt install docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io docker-buildx-plugin docker-compose-plugin<\/code><\/code><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><code>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:main<\/code><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>to check if it is running, run sudo docker ps<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Now, localhost:8080 should have your OpenWebUI running<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Do a signup or create account (Local instance bound), the first account you create will automatically become an admin account !<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>At this stage, you should be good to go, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you don&#8217;t want to use docker ! you can simply install it with the following pip command<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">pip install open-webui<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>Once done, you can simply run it with<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">open-webui serve<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>In some cases, if Ollama was previously setup and not running, you might want to run Open WebUI with the command<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\"><code>ENABLE_OLLAMA_API=false open-webui serve<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>Otherwise, you might have it hang with the message<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\"><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>Now that it is running, go to <a href=\"http:\/\/localhost:8080\">http:\/\/localhost:8080<\/a> and create an account, the first account you create will automatically become the admin account<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Adding OpenAI API key<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The most common use for open-webui is with Ollama, but let us assume you want to install your openAI account into it !<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1- Go to admin panel (Bottom left)<br>2- Go to settings in admin panel (center top)<br>3- go to connections<br>4- <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1- Installing as docker container At this stage, you should be good to go, If you don&#8217;t want to use docker ! you can simply install it with the following pip command pip install open-webui Once done, you can simply run it with open-webui serve In some cases, if Ollama was previously setup and not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[176,211],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ai","category-local-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voodoo.business\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voodoo.business\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voodoo.business\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voodoo.business\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voodoo.business\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4841"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.voodoo.business\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5435,"href":"https:\/\/www.voodoo.business\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4841\/revisions\/5435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voodoo.business\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voodoo.business\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voodoo.business\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}