server install

Web Setup

There are currently two ways of configuring a goploader server. You can either run the binary a first time and follow the setup instructions in your browser (it will first run on the 8008 port, so make sure this port is available).

$ ./server --initial
Please go to http://127.0.0.1:8008 to setup goploader.

You'll then need to fill the form that is shown to you. This step will generate a conf.yml file next to your binary file. This is the configuration file of your service. You can freely modify it, keep in mind that you'll need to restart the service each time you modify it so the changes are applied.

The conf.yml file

The other solution is to directly create a conf.yml file next to the binary (or wherever you want, you can actually specify a configuration file with the -c/--conf flag)

The next sections describe how to write and custmomize this file.

Server

Key	Description	Default	Example
name_server	The server name to use. This is used to return correct URLs to the clients.		gpldr.in
port	Port on which the server should listen.	8080	8003
host	Host on which the server should listen.		127.0.0.1
append_port	Set to true if you need to append the port to the name_server in the returned URLs.	false	false

HTTPS

Key	Description	Default	Example
serve_https	Set to true if you want the server to serve its own HTTPS certificate.	false	false
ssl_cert	Path to the SSL Certificate. Required if you set serve_https to true.	-	ssl/my.cert
ssl_private_key	Path to your SSL private key. Required if you set serve_https to true.	-	ssl/my.pem

Files and Database

Key	Description	Default	Example
upload_dir	Path to the (local or absolute) directory where the files should be stored.	up/	up/
db	Path to the database. (The database being a single file)	goploader.db	goploader.db
uniuri_length	Length of the unique ID of the resources, which is part of the returned URL for each uploaded file.	10	10
key_length	Size of the AES cipher key.	16	16
size_limit	Maximum size of sent files in MB.	20	20
disk_quota	Maximum total size the uploaded files occupy on disk in GB. 0 to disable.	0	3
loglevel	Defines a level for the logs. Choices are "debug", "info", "error","disabled". The names are pretty explicit. "info" is the most useful one.	"info"	"info"

Privacy

Key	Description	Default	Example
sensitive_mode	If web interface is activated, hide all information and only display the file upload form.	false	true
stats	Display or not the statistics on the main page (number of files uploaded and total size). Note that, even when setting this to false, statistics will still be gathered.	false	true
no_web	When set to true, this option completely disable the HTML pages. Upload will only be possible using curl and/or client.	false	false
fulldoc	Display or not the link to the full documentation of the project (which you are reading right now)	true	true

Others

Key	Description	Default	Example
always_download	Disable viewing the file in the browser and always offer to download the files	false	true
disable_encryption	Disable encryption. Files will be written to disk much faster, but there won't be any server-side encryption.	false	false
prometheus_enabled	Enabled Prometheus metrics. This exposes the /metrics endpoint which will expose data for prometheus	false	true

Sensitive Mode

This is actually a really important setting. If you know the server will be used to host sensitive information, please set this to true. This will disable any information if the web interface is activated. For example, there won't be any footer, the project's name won't be displayed, only the file upload form will. This is a simple way of not affiliating me to your project/company/organization. This setting will obviously override the fulldoc and stats settings as there won't be anything displayed on the page.