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AlphaDrive Documentation

Welcome to the comprehensive AlphaDrive documentation. This documentation covers everything from initial server provisioning to advanced reverse proxy setups, REST API integration, security architecture, and disaster recovery.

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Documentation Index

1. Getting Started & Installation

• Getting Started Hardware requirements, operating system support, and first-time setup wizard.
• Installation Guide One-line automated VPS installer, headless script options, manual binary installation, and building from source.
• Installer Deep-Dive Detailed specification and operational mechanics of the install.sh deployment script.

2. Configuration & Networking

• Configuration Reference Environment variables, ports, directory paths, and runtime settings.
• Reverse Proxy & HTTPS Setup Production-ready configurations for Caddy, Nginx, Traefik, Apache, and Cloudflare.

3. Usage & Features

• User & Account Management Initial owner setup, administrator privileges, creating users, changing usernames, and updating passwords.
• File & Storage Management File and folder uploads, nested navigation, media previews (image, video, audio, PDF, code), trash management, and VPS disk quota telemetry.
• Public Sharing Engine Public links, custom slugs, Argon2id password protection, expiration timers, instant revocation, and streaming ZIP downloads.

4. Operations & Maintenance

• CLI Reference & Diagnostics Server commands, alphadrive doctor diagnostics, alphadrive-update, and uninstallation.
• Backup & Disaster Recovery Hot online SQLite backups, opaque file archive exports, and complete multi-server restores.
• Troubleshooting & FAQs Solutions to common networking, permissions, proxy, and service issues.

5. Developer & Architecture

• Architecture & Security Single-binary philosophy, embedded SQLite WAL mode, Opaque Storage Engine, and defense-in-depth security model.
• REST API Reference Complete HTTP REST API specification with request/response payloads, authentication, and error codes.

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