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.

# Create the virtual environment
python -m venv venv

# Activate the virtual environment
source venv/bin/activate

# Install all the requirements
pip install -r requirements.txt

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

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;
    }
}