datatrash/README.md

datatrash

A file and text uploading service with configurable time limit

running

For running on docker, use the provided docker-compose.yml.sample and adapt it to your needs. To run the software directly, use the compiling instructions below.

config

• The static files directory needs to be next to the binary.
• The static directory – sadly – needs to be writable
  • On startup the index.html will be generated based on the config
• The maximum filename length is 255

General configuration

environment variable	default value	description
STATIC_DIR	./static	directory to generate "static" files into
FILES_DIR	./files	directory to save uploaded files into
UPLOAD_MAX_BYTES	8388608 (8MiB)	maximum size for uploaded files
BIND_ADDRESS	0.0.0.0:8000	address to bind the server to
RATE_LIMIT	true	whether download rate should be limited
RATE_LIMIT_PROXIED	false	whether rate limit should read x-forwarded-for
RATE_LIMIT_PER_SECOND	60	seconds to wait between requests
RATE_LIMIT_BURST	1440	allowed request burst

Database configuration

environment variable	default value
DATABASE_URL
DATABASE_USER
DATABASE_PASS
DATABASE_HOST	localhost
DATABASE_NAME	datatrash

No auth limits configuration

Require authentication for certain uploads

• The password is provided as plain text
• Uploads with longer validity than NO_AUTH_MAX_TIME require authentication
• Uploads larger than NO_AUTH_LARGE_FILE_SIZE require auth when they are valid for longer than NO_AUTH_LARGE_FILE_MAX_TIME
• All times are in seconds, the size is in bytes

environment variable	default value
AUTH_PASSWORD
NO_AUTH_MAX_TIME
NO_AUTH_LARGE_FILE_MAX_TIME
NO_AUTH_LARGE_FILE_SIZE

compiling

cargo build --release

or

docker build -t datatrash .
docker cp datatrash:/home/rust/.cargo/bin/datatrash datatrash