What is Homepage?
[Homepage is] a modern, fully static, fast, secure fully proxied, highly customizable application dashboard with integrations for over 100 services and translations into multiple languages. Easily configured via YAML files or through docker label discovery. -https://github.com/benphelps/homepage
Installing Homepage
Log into the Windows device
Download the latest Homepage release Download
Download NodeJS Download
Install NodeJS > During the install, make sure to check the Tools for Native Modules option
At the Native Modules prompt, press any key to begin the installation process
NOTE: This process takes quite a while to install, be patient. Proceed once the PowerShell window closes
Extract the downloaded Homepage files
Rename the extracted folder homepage
Cut the homepage folder to a location it can safely run from, C:\Program Files\homepage in this example
Hold the SHIFT key and right click in the white space > Open PowerShell window here...
Run the following commands in the PowerShell window
# install dependencies npm install # create .env file from example Copy-Item ".\src\skeleton" -Destination ".\config" -Recurse # build homepage npm run build # run homepage npm start
Open a web browser and navigate to http://DNSorIP:3000
Welcome to Homepage
Run Homepage on System Startup (Optional, but recommended)
Press CTRL + C to kill the running Homepage process
Open a text editor and paste the following
:: Start homepage server
cd /D "%~dp0"
start "homepage" /b npm start
Save the file as homepage.bat in the homepage directory, C:\Program Files\homepage in this example
Click on the Start Button > Type task > Launch Task Scheduler
Right click the Task Scheduler Library folder in the left pane > Create Basic Task...
Set the name to Homepage and optionally set a Description > Click Next
For the Trigger, select When the computer starts > Click Next
For the Action, select Start a program > Click Next
Complete the form fields as follows:
Program/script: "%ProgramFiles%\homepage\homepage.bat"
Add arguments:
Start in:
Click Next
Check the Open the Properties dialog checkbox > Click Finish
In the Properties dialog, click the Change User or Group... button
Type System in the Object name field > Click OK
Check the Run with highest privileges box
Click OK to create the scheduled task
Right click the Homepage task > Run
Refresh the open web browser to verify Homepage is now running from the scheduled task
Source: https://github.com/gethomepage/homepage?tab=readme-ov-file#with-node