UpFast

simple tool for uploading and sharing files that is selfhostable.

How to host

Regular system

To run on a regular system I recommend to use a virtual environment to install the dependencies and run the project from there.

We will also be setting up an specific user to run the app as safe as possible with a systemd service file for startup

# Create the user (You can specify a different home-dir)
sudo useradd --shell /bin/bash --system \
    --home-dir "/usr/local/upfast" -m upfast

# Change to upfast user and go to upfast dir
su upfast
cd

# Clone the project directly into upfast-src directory
git clone https://code.cronyakatsuki.xyz/crony/upfast .

# Create the virtual environment and load it for user on default
python3 -m venv venv
# Activate the virtual environment
source venv/bin/activate
# Install all the requirements
pip install -r requirements.txt

# Load environment by default
echo "source /usr/local/upfast/venv/bin/activate" > "/usr/local/upfast/.profile"

# create the upload directory
mkdir upload

# Run the project
uvicorn main:app --host 127.0.0.1 --port 8000 --proxy-headers --forwarded-allow-ips='*'

Autostart with systemd

To autostart with systemd you will need to create a systemd .service file in path /etc/systemd/system/upfast.service and add this content to it.

[Unit]
Description=UpFast service
Documentation=https://code.cronyakatsuki.xyz/crony/upfast

[Service]
User=upfast
Group=upfast
WorkingDirectory=/usr/local/upfast/
ExecStart=/usr/local/upfast/venv/bin/uvicorn main:app --host 127.0.0.1 --port 8000 --proxy-headers --forwarded-allow-ips='*'
Restart=on-failure

Then just run sudo systemctl daemon-reload and enable the service with sudo systemctl enable upfast.service

Docker

In the repo there is an included dockerfile to generate an image from the latest version of everything, to generate an image just run docker build . -t upfast (You need root privileges or to be in the docker group).

To run the docker container check the container id with docker images command.

sample docker run command

sudo docker run -p 8000:8000 -v ./upload:/usr/src/app/upload CONTAINER_ID

The sample command will need an upload directory, you can replace ./upload with a different path to save uploaded stuff.

Nginx Proxy setup

This is an example nginx proxy config for http

server {

    listen 80;
    listen [::]:80;

    server_name upfast.example.com ;

    location / {
        proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8000;
        proxy_set_header Host $host;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
        proxy_redirect off;
        proxy_buffering off;
    }
}