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404 public/index.html: file does not exist #5849

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2.62.1

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I installed filebrowser with homebrew. When I try to run filebrowser and access the main page using curl http://127.0.0.1:8080, it returns 404 not found. The log shows that filebrowser cannot find public/index.html.

2026/03/19 16:39:50 No config file used
2026/03/19 16:39:50 Using database: /home/worker/filebrowser/filebrowser.db
2026/03/19 16:39:50 Listening on 127.0.0.1:8080
2026/03/19 16:40:05 /: 404 127.0.0.1 open public/index.html: file does not exist

What did you expect to happen?

It should return the main web page when access.

What actually happened?

It returned 404 not found

Reproduction Steps

Install filebrowser with homebrew (ubuntu 22.04)

brew tap filebrowser/tap
brew install filebrowser

Run filebrowser

filebrowser

Curl to the main page

curl http://127.0.0.1:8080

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