
I self-hosted Stirling PDF on Ubuntu 24.04 — the tutorials left login off
I wanted merge, OCR, and compress off a hosted PDF site. Stirling came up on Docker. The compose I copied set SECURITY_ENABLELOGIN=false on a public 8080, and ultra-lite would have dropped login anyway. Login on, bind localhost, Nginx in front — that is what is running in the lab now.
Sep 7, 2026 · 9 min read