Open WebUI : Install2024/06/04

	Install Open WebUI which allows you to run LLM on Web UI. Open WebUI can be easily installed with pip3, however in this example, we will start it in a container.
[1]	Install Podman, refer to here.
[2]	Install Ollama, refer to here.
[3]	Pull and start the Open WebUI container image.

[root@dlp ~]#

podman pull ghcr.io/open-webui/open-webui:main

[root@dlp ~]#

podman images

REPOSITORY                     TAG         IMAGE ID      CREATED      SIZE
ghcr.io/open-webui/open-webui  main        a48d0a909833  3 hours ago  3.58 GB

[root@dlp ~]#

podman run -d -p 3000:8080 --add-host=host.containers.internal:host-gateway -v open-webui:/app/backend/data --name open-webui --restart always ghcr.io/open-webui/open-webui:main

[root@dlp ~]#

podman ps

CONTAINER ID  IMAGE                               COMMAND        CREATED        STATUS        PORTS                   NAMES
efc2886a7f58  ghcr.io/open-webui/open-webui:main  bash start.sh  6 seconds ago  Up 6 seconds  0.0.0.0:3000->8080/tcp  open-webui

[4]	Start any web browser on client computer and access to Open WebUI. When you access the application, the following screen will appear. For initial accessing to the application, click [Sign up] to register as a user.

[5]	Enter the required information and click [Create Account]. The first user to register will automatically become an administrator account.

[6]	Once your account is created, the Open WebUI default page will be displayed.

[7]	Next time, you can log in with your registered email address and password.

[8]	For second and subsequent users, when you register by clicking [Sign up], the account will be in Pending status and must be approved by an administrator account.

[9]	To approve a new user, log in with your administrator account and click Admin Panel from the menu in the top right.

[10]	If you click [pending] on a user in [Pending] status, that user will be approved. If you click [user] again, that user can be promoted to [Admin].

[11]	To use Chat, select the model you have loaded into Ollama from the menu at the top, enter a message in the box below, and you will receive a reply.

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