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• ZizzyDizzyMC: https://github.com/ZizzyDizzyMC/linx-server/
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linx-server

Self-hosted file/media sharing website.

Clients

Official

• CLI: linx-client - Source

Unofficial

• Android: LinxShare - Source | Google Play
• CLI: golinx - Source

Features

• Display common filetypes (image, video, audio, markdown, pdf)
• Display syntax-highlighted code with in-place editing
• Documented API with keys for restricting uploads
• Torrent download of files using web seeding
• File expiry, deletion key, file access key, and random filename options

Screenshots

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Getting started

Using Docker

1. Create directories files and meta and run chown -R 65534:65534 meta && chown -R 65534:65534 files
2. Create a config file (example provided in repo), we'll refer to it as linx-server.conf in the following examples

Example running

docker run -p 8080:8080 -v /path/to/linx-server.conf:/data/linx-server.conf -v /path/to/meta:/data/meta -v /path/to/files:/data/files andreimarcu/linx-server -config /data/linx-server.conf

Example with docker-compose

version: '2.2'
services:
  linx-server:
    container_name: linx-server
    image: andreimarcu/linx-server
    command: -config /data/linx-server.conf
    volumes:
      - /path/to/files:/data/files
      - /path/to/meta:/data/meta
      - /path/to/linx-server.conf:/data/linx-server.conf
    network_mode: bridge
    ports:
      - "8080:8080"
    restart: unless-stopped

Ideally, you would use a reverse proxy such as nginx or caddy to handle TLS certificates.

Using a binary release

1. Grab the latest binary from the releases, then run go install

2. Run linx-server -config path/to/linx-server.conf

Usage

Configuration

All configuration options are accepted either as arguments or can be placed in a file as such (see example file linx-server.conf.example in repo):

bind = 127.0.0.1:8080
sitename = myLinx
maxsize = 4294967296
maxexpiry = 86400
# ... etc

...and then run linx-server -config path/to/linx-server.conf

Options

Cleaning up expired files

When files expire, access is disabled immediately, but the files and metadata will persist on disk until someone attempts to access them. You can set the following option to run cleanup every few minutes. This can also be done using a separate utility found the linx-cleanup directory.

Require API Keys for uploads

A helper utility linx-genkey is provided which hashes keys to the format required in the auth files.

Storage backends

The following storage backends are available:

SSL with built-in server

Use with http proxy

Use with fastcgi

Deployment

Linx-server supports being deployed in a subdirectory (ie. example.com/mylinx/) as well as on its own (example.com/).

1. Using fastcgi

A suggested deployment is running nginx in front of linx-server serving through fastcgi. This allows you to have nginx handle the TLS termination for example.
An example configuration:

server {
    ...
    server_name yourlinx.example.org;
    ...
    
    client_max_body_size 4096M;
    location / {
        fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:8080;
        include fastcgi_params;
    }
}

And run linx-server with the fastcgi = true option.

2. Using the built-in https server

Run linx-server with the certfile = path/to/cert.file and keyfile = path/to/key.file options.

3. Using the built-in http server

Run linx-server normally.

Development

1. go get -u github.com/andreimarcu/linx-server
2. cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/andreimarcu/linx-server
3. go build && ./linx-server

License

Copyright (C) 2015 Andrei Marcu

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

Author

Andrei Marcu, https://andreim.net/