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 (6)
- Guides
Open WebUI RAG Document Upload: From File to Answer
Follow an Open WebUI document from upload through extraction, embeddings and retrieval. Configure Knowledge, diagnose missing answers and measure indexing
- 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? 4 Causes and Fixes
Fix an empty Open WebUI model list by checking Ollama's bind address, Docker's host URL, saved connection settings, and endpoint 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.