A lightweight secure network file server written in Go.
Lily is a secure network file server written in Go. Lily supports users and permissions, and allows for a wide variety of commands. Lily is designed to be safe and efficient, making it perfect for large-scale file servers.
Lily has a wide variety of features, including but not limited to:
- Multiple file stores
- Custom Lily protocol
- Efficient handling of large amounts of data
- Access permissions and security, including whitelists and blacklists
- Multithreaded safety, allowing for efficient and safe handling of multiple requests at a time
- User and session authentication
- Settings are able to be customized easily at runtime
See Lily for more information.
To install, run make install or go install in the root directory. Lily can also be built using make or go build.
To create a drive, run lily drive init <name> <absolutePathToDrive>. Replace <name> with the name of the new drive, and <absolutePathToDrive> with the absolute path to the drive directory on the filesystem. This will create a new drive file in the current directory, named .your-drive-name.lilyd.
To create a new server, start by creating a config file. This config file will only be used once (when the server file is being created) and can be discarded afterwards. An example config file is as follows:
[config]
name: server-name
[drives]
drive-name: /absolute/path/to/drive/file
[certs]
certFiles: /absolute/path/to/certificate
keyFiles: /absolute/path/to/key
Create the new server by running lily config init <pathToConfig>. Replace <pathToConfig> with the path to your config file. This should create a new server file in the current directory, named .server.lily. To start the server, run lily serve. This should find the server file in your current directory, load the drive files, and begin the server.
You can access a Lily server using the Go API, with github.com/cubeflix/lily/client.