A stupidly simple and easy to self-host, personal server for file hosting on the web

Rafał Baran

Last update: Jan 3, 2023

Overview

Grasswave CDN

A stupidly simple and easy to self-host, personal server for file hosting on the web. Written in Rust.

Thanks, @Maciejowski, for the stylesheet!

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How to use

For every file you want to publish, create a seperate directory in the files folder, and place the files inside of them. In every directory, create a file named info.toml.

files
├── lorem
│   ├── lorem.tar.xz
│   └── info.toml
├── ipsum
│   ├── info.toml
│   └── ipsum.tar.xz
└── dolor
    ├── info.toml
    └── dolor.tar.xz

In the toml files, set the name and description to display, and the name of the file to publish, in the following format:

name = "Lorem"
description = "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet"
tags = ["lorem", "ipsum", "dolor"]
path = "lorem.tar.xz"

Run the executable, and that's it! You can visit it in the browser at the link displayed in the terminal.

You can configure it in a config file created automatically on the first run.

Default config

displayed_name = "Grasswave CDN"
files_path = "files"
accent_colors = ["#1D9F00", "#4DE928"]
http_port = 7000

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Releases(v0.2)

v0.2(Aug 27, 2022)
This version implements all the basic features, and now it's definitely usable.

New features:

Added a message at server startup

Implemented config file functionality (see README.md)

Implemented custom 404 page instead of the default Rocket one

Source code(tar.gz)
Source code(zip)
v0.1(Aug 11, 2022)
It's still not complete and lacks important features, although core functionality is working.

Current feature set:

Listing all files

Downloading files

File search

Tag search

Source code(tar.gz)
Source code(zip)