open-webui complains of network problem when tunneling to ollama through SSH...

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I have ollama running in a docker container on a remote host. I'm trying to get open-webui running in a container on my laptop to access the ollama container through SSH port forwarding. It works just fine with the docker commands that I've found, but they expose ollama and open-webui on external host addresses. I want to restrict access to localhost only. Details: On my remote host (running Ubuntu 24.04), I launched ollama with sudo docker run...

Originally asked by Brian K Haney on Stack Exchange (stackoverflow) (CC BY-SA 4.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

I got an answer to my question from the Ollama community on Discord. "localhost" means two different things inside vs. outside of the docker container. Open-webui sees locahost as local to the conainter. My laptop sees localhost as local to the laptop (which does not include the container). So not all localhosts are equal. Now I need to figure out how to expose a virtual interface on the laptop that is accessible to the docker container, but not accessible from other hosts on the physical LAN. It sounds like I need to learn more about how to manipulate the docker.internal network.

Full answer by Brian K Haney: https://stackoverflow.stackexchange.com/a/79322313 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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