Paperless NGX - PreAuthentication

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Hi,

I noticed that for paplerless NGX some kind of pre Auth is required. Before I can access the app from a device I first need to login with the admin user of umbrel. After that I can access Paperless on Port 2349 and login to paperless ngx itself
This blocks the use of all paperless ngx mobile apps (like “less paper” on iOS") because they do not understand the redirect to the umbrel “preAuth”.
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Why was this done? Is there a way to disable this preauth?
This should be documented in the “App Marketplace”.

Greetings
Thomas

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Found it myself: here a short “How-To” for others how want to achieve the same.

Connect to the Umbrel with ssh (in my screenshot I used winscp WinSCP :: Official Site :: Free SFTP and FTP client for Windows)

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1.) find App Directory
2.) find the DockerCompose file (and make a “backup” - just in case :wink: )
3.) add PROXY_AUTH_ADD: “false” in the App Proxy config

Restart the container (can be done in the umbrel webinterface).

After that I was able to access paperless without the preauth. This enabled me to access paperless with the mobile apps & publish paperless with NGINX PM over https.

Greetings
Thomas

Further informations(found the solution in this documentaion): umbrel-apps/README.md at master · getumbrel/umbrel-apps · GitHub

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