Transfer-more

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Transfer More is a minimalist open-source upload http server to store and share files temporarily, written in Crystal, and based on Kemal [1].

Installation

Install the transfer-more^AUR package. It only requires crystal and shards in order to compile the initial binary, because pre-built binaries are not provided. There is not 3rd database or service dependencies.

Running

Starting

Run the transfer-more binary manually from a terminal.

Autostarting

TODO

System service

TODO

User service

TODO

Configuration

Parameters

 transfer-more --port 3000 --host 0.0.0.0

Environment variables

• TRANSFER_SSL_ENABLED: if "true", you should see page
• TRANSFER_BASE_STORAGE: the base path where the upload should be stored
• TRANSFER_SECURE_SIZE: the size of the salt (minimum 1)
• TRANSFER_STORAGE_DAYS: default 7, number of days minimum to keep the files stored
• TRANSFER_TIME_FORMAT: default "%y%m%d%H", a part of the url to access the files (also the path in the filesystem)

Behind Nginx

You could configure your nginx with a /etc/nginx/servers-enabled/some-file.conf

 server {
   listen 443 ssl;
   server_name up.sceptique.eu;
   client_max_body_size 1G;
   location / {
       proxy_pass http://localhost:3000;
       include proxy_forward.conf;
   }
 }

Others

See [2] to get the last version of the documentation. See [3] to understand how the web framework behind transfer-more works.