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+# ngfshare
+
+Simple file sharing server utilizing nginx X-Accel file serving.
+
+## Setup
+
+Example config.json
+```json
+{
+    "Port": 8987,
+    "Address": "127.0.0.1",
+    "DBpath": "/var/lib/ngfshare/database.db",
+    "StoreDir": "/var/lib/ngfshare/store",
+    "HTMLTemplateDir": "/var/lib/ngfshare/templates",
+    "UrlPrefix": "http://share.yourdomain.xyz",
+    "IdLen": 5,
+    "AuthKeyLen": 30
+}
+```
+
+Example nginx server configuration
+```cfg
+server {
+    listen 443 ssl;
+    server_name share.yourdomain.xyz;
+    root /nonexistent;
+
+    location / {
+        proxy_set_header Host $host; # Not actually required
+        proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8987;
+    }
+    location /store/ {
+        internal;
+        alias /var/lib/ngfshare/store/;
+    }
+}
+```
+
+Then run with `./ngfshare -config /path/to/config.json`. To generate an auth key, run `./ngfshare -config /path/to/config.json -genauth`.
+
+## Api
+### Upload
+Files can be uploaded by making a POST request to `/api/upload` with the `Authorization` header set to the auth key generated above.
+
+Example
+```sh
+curl 'https://share.yourdomain.xyz/api/upload' -H 'Authorization: authkey' -F 'file=@img.png'
+```
+
+This returns a json dict
+```json
+{
+  "id": "A5HjC",
+  "filename": "img.png",
+  "url": "http://share.yourdomain.xyz/-A5HjC/img.png",
+  "url_short": "http://share.yourdomain.xyz/-A5HjC",
+  "delete_url": "http://share.yourdomain.xyz/api/delete/A5HjC"
+}
+```
+
+### Delete
+Make a POST request to `/api/delete/{id}` with the `Authorization` header set.
+
+Example
+```sh
+curl -X POST 'https://share.yourdomain.xyz/api/delete/A5HjC' -H 'Authorization: authkey'
+```
+
+Returns
+```json
+{
+  "status": "OK"
+}
+```
+
+### Web
+There is a web interface for it as well. Login with the auth key. Once logged in, a list of files are shown. New files can be uploaded, and deleted from the web interface. You can also probably tell I'm not a web designer.
+
+## Inspiration
+Inspired by https://github.com/mtlynch/picoshare. This saves the files into the sqlite3 database. I didn't like that, so thats why I made this.