A little private file hosting service.

• Installation
• Configuration
• Usage
  • Uploading Files
• Development
• TODO
• License

As of now, cloning the repository and running cargo build is the only method of installation.

The frontend CSS must also be built, which requires pnpm.

$ cd saffron
$ cd views
$ pnpm install
$ pnpm build
$ cd ..
$ cargo build --release
$ ./target/release/saffron user create <username>
$ ./target/release/saffron start

Alternatively, one can use docker with the provided Dockerfile.

$ cd saffron
$ docker build -t saffron .
$ docker run -e HOST_URL="https://image.host/" saffron user create <username>
$ docker run -e HOST_URL="https://image.host/" -dp 8000:8000 saffron start -h 0.0.0.0

This application is configured via environment variables, documented below.

If desired, the environment variables can be set in an .env file. An example .env file is available in the repository as .env.sample.

The URI to the SQLite database. For a relative path, use sqlite://relative/path/to/db.sqlite. For an absolute path, use sqlite:///var/lib/absolute/path/to/db.sqlite.

The directory to store uploaded files in.

The URL of the server. Used to create the file URL in JSON responses to upload requests.

At the moment, uploading from the website is not supported. For uploading, a JSON API endpoint is available at /upload, accepting uploads of the multipart/form-data content type.

Uploads must be authenticated with the Authorization header. The value must be in the Token <token> format, where <token> is a user's hex-encoded token.

An example cURL request:

$ curl -v -X POST -H "Content-Type:multipart/form-data" -H"Authorization:Token <token>" -F "upload=@<filepath>" https://image.host/upload

Developing database stuff requires sqlx-cli:

$ cargo install --version=0.2.0 sqlx-cli --no-default-features --features sqlite

Developing the views requires pnpm, in order to build TailwindCSS. Running pnpm install inside views/ will set up the environment. See views/package.json for some helper commands.

• File deletion.
  • CSRF protection.
• Clean up... this really is a terrible mess with Actix.

saffron :: a little private file hosting service

Copyright (C) 2020 azuline

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
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