Open WebUI

install

# Pip
uv tool install open-webui --python 3.11
# uv tool install hf_transfer

# Docker compose
mkdir open-webui
cd open-webui
vim docker-compose.yml

services:
	open-webui:
		image: ghcr.io/open-webui/open-webui:main
		container_name: open-webui
		ports:
			# Change port
			- "8050:8080"
		environment:
			OLLAMA_BASE_URL: http://<your_host>:11434
		volumes:
			- .data:/app/backend/data
		restart: always

usage

# Pip
open-webui serve

# Docker compose
sudo docker compose up -d

Visit http://<your_host>:<port>, you may need to wait a few minutes for it to complete initialization.

config

  • Open WebUI → User → Admin Panel → Settings → Documents
    • Embedding Model Engine → Ollama
    • Embedding Model → nomic-embed-text:latest

reference

file

// _path_librarian.json
// The modified lines, for example.
[
    {
        "base_model_id": "qwen3:14b",
        "params":
        {
            "system": "...And you always answer in Simplified Chinese."
        },
    }
]

asset

mark

later

cache

appdedix

open-webui_01 open-webui_02