Editorial desk
Open WebUI HQ Editorial
The editorial desk that publishes Open WebUI HQ. It is a byline for the site's editorial process, not a person, and this page carries no author biography because there is no individual author to describe.
How this desk works
- Articles are researched from primary sources: vendor and project documentation, published standards and specifications, release notes, advisories, and measurements published by the people who took them.
- Drafts are produced with AI assistance and then edited against those same sources before publication.
- Nothing published here claims hands-on lab testing, benchmarking, or first-hand measurement. Where a figure comes from a datasheet or someone else's test, the article names the source.
- Corrections go to [email protected] and are made on the affected page. Funding is set out on the disclosure page.
Posts (9)
- comparisons
OpenWebUI vs LibreChat: Which One to Run for a Team
OpenWebUI vs LibreChat for a team: Open WebUI for Ollama, local RAG and OTel; LibreChat for MIT, SAML and token budgets. Includes a TTFT probe.
- configuration
How to Change Open WebUI Port: Docker, Compose, Python
Change the Open WebUI port by editing the host side of -p 3000:8080, the Compose ports entry, PORT under host networking, or --port with pip installs.
- troubleshooting
Open WebUI No Models Available: Why the List Is Empty
Open WebUI shows no models? Check the backend for a pulled model, the connection URL, saved settings, model filters, user access and API discovery.
- guides
Open WebUI RAG Document Upload: From File to Answer
Follow an Open WebUI document from upload through extraction, embeddings and retrieval, then configure Knowledge and diagnose missing answers.
- operations
How to Update Open WebUI Container: Docker Guide
How to update the Open WebUI container without losing chats: back up the volume, pull, recreate, pin a version tag, and roll back when a release breaks.
- comparisons
Open WebUI vs LibreChat: Which to Self-Host
A documentation-level comparison of Open WebUI and LibreChat: install footprint, configuration model, model connections, retrieval and licensing terms.
- troubleshooting
Open WebUI Not Connecting to Ollama: Network Problem Fixes
Getting Ollama: Network Problem or a server connection error in Open WebUI? Check Ollama's bind address, Docker's host URL, saved settings and timeouts.
- getting-started
Install Open WebUI With Docker: Setup Guide
How to install Open WebUI with Docker: which image tag to run, the volume that holds everything, GPU flags, the first admin account, and safe updates.
- getting-started
Open WebUI and Local Models: How the Pieces Fit Together
What Open WebUI actually does, how it connects to a local model backend, and how retrieval, embeddings and context limits interact in practice.