How to use self hosted anki server on Linux and Windows Anki Client

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Did you know that there is an example Dockerfile for Self-Hosted Sync Server in Anki’s GitHub repository? If you haven’t tried it yet, you might want to give it a try first.

Here is a screencast of me trying out the Dockerfile in the repository. (Incidentally, this is my first time trying out the Self-Hosted Sync Server feature.)

The compose.yaml used in the video is below. I am not familiar with Docker at all, so there may be a more appropriate way to write compose.yaml.

compose.yaml

services:
  anki-sync-server:
    container_name: anki-sync-server
    build:
      context: .
      args:
        ANKI_VERSION: 24.06.3
    tty: true
    environment:
      - SYNC_USER1=username:password
      - SYNC_BASE=/.syncserver
    volumes:
      - ./.syncserver:/.syncserver
    ports:
      - "8080:8080"

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