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Sigoden/Dufs

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Dufs is a distinctive utility file server that supports static serving, uploading, searching, accessing control, webdav...

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Features

  • Serve static files

  • Download folder as zip file

  • Upload files and folders (Drag & Drop)

  • Create/Edit/Search files

  • Resumable/partial uploads/downloads

  • Access control

  • Support https

  • Support webdav

  • Easy to use with curl

Install

With cargo

cargo install dufs

With docker

docker run -v `pwd`:/data -p 5000:5000 --rm sigoden/dufs /data -A

With Homebrew

brew install dufs

Binaries on macOS, Linux, Windows

Download from Github Releases, unzip and add dufs to your $PATH.

CLI

Dufs is a distinctive utility file server - https://github.com/sigoden/dufs

Usage: dufs [OPTIONS] [serve-path]

Arguments:
  [serve-path]  Specific path to serve [default: .]

Options:
  -c, --config <file>        Specify configuration file
  -b, --bind <addrs>         Specify bind address or unix socket
  -p, --port <port>          Specify port to listen on [default: 5000]
      --path-prefix <path>   Specify a path prefix
      --hidden <value>       Hide paths from directory listings, e.g. tmp,*.log,*.lock
  -a, --auth <rules>         Add auth roles, e.g. user:pass@/dir1:rw,/dir2
  -A, --allow-all            Allow all operations
      --allow-upload         Allow upload files/folders
      --allow-delete         Allow delete files/folders
      --allow-search         Allow search files/folders
      --allow-symlink        Allow symlink to files/folders outside root directory
      --allow-archive        Allow zip archive generation
      --enable-cors          Enable CORS, sets `Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *`
      --render-index         Serve index.html when requesting a directory, returns 404 if not found index.html
      --render-try-index     Serve index.html when requesting a directory, returns directory listing if not found index.html
      --render-spa           Serve SPA(Single Page Application)
      --assets <path>        Set the path to the assets directory for overriding the built-in assets
      --log-format <format>  Customize http log format
      --log-file <file>      Specify the file to save logs to, other than stdout/stderr
      --compress <level>     Set zip compress level [default: low] [possible values: none, low, medium, high]
      --completions <shell>  Print shell completion script for <shell> [possible values: bash, elvish, fish, powershell, zsh]
      --tls-cert <path>      Path to an SSL/TLS certificate to serve with HTTPS
      --tls-key <path>       Path to the SSL/TLS certificate's private key
  -h, --help                 Print help
  -V, --version              Print version

Examples

Serve current working directory in read-only mode

dufs

Allow all operations like upload/delete/search/create/edit...

dufs -A

Only allow upload operation

dufs --allow-upload

Serve a specific directory

dufs Downloads

Serve a single file

dufs linux-distro.iso

Serve a single-page application like react/vue

dufs --render-spa

Serve a static website with index.html

dufs --render-index

Require username/password

dufs -a admin:123@/:rw

Listen on specific host:ip

dufs -b 127.0.0.1 -p 80

Listen on unix socket

dufs -b /tmp/dufs.socket

Use https

dufs --tls-cert my.crt --tls-key my.key

API

Upload a file

curl -T path-to-file http://127.0.0.1:5000/new-path/path-to-file

Download a file

curl http://127.0.0.1:5000/path-to-file           # download the file
curl http://127.0.0.1:5000/path-to-file?hash      # retrieve the sha256 hash of the file

Download a folder as zip file

curl -o path-to-folder.zip http://127.0.0.1:5000/path-to-folder?zip

Delete a file/folder

curl -X DELETE http://127.0.0.1:5000/path-to-file-or-folder

Create a directory

curl -X MKCOL http://127.0.0.1:5000/path-to-folder

Move the file/folder to the new path

curl -X MOVE http://127.0.0.1:5000/path -H "Destination: http://127.0.0.1:5000/new-path"

List/search directory contents

curl http://127.0.0.1:5000?q=Dockerfile           # search for files, similar to `find -name Dockerfile`
curl http://127.0.0.1:5000?simple                 # output names only, similar to `ls -1`
curl http://127.0.0.1:5000?json                   # output paths in json format

With authorization (Both basic or digest auth works)

curl http://127.0.0.1:5000/file --user user:pass                 # basic auth
curl http://127.0.0.1:5000/file --user user:pass --digest        # digest auth

Resumable downloads

curl -C- -o file http://127.0.0.1:5000/file

Resumable uploads

upload_offset=$(curl -I -s http://127.0.0.1:5000/file | tr -d '\r' | sed -n 's/content-length: //p')
dd skip=$upload_offset if=file status=none ibs=1 | \
  curl -X PATCH -H "X-Update-Range: append" --data-binary @- http://127.0.0.1:5000/file

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License

Copyright (c) 2022-2024 dufs-developers.

dufs is made available under the terms of either the MIT License or the Apache License 2.0, at your option.

See the LICENSE-APACHE and LICENSE-MIT files for license details.

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