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httpfs - Remote FUSE filesystem via server-side script

httpfs is a FUSE-based filesystem that uses HTTP messages to mount a remote directory on a local machine, relying on a generated server-side script (e.g. PHP) installed on the server.

Setup

  1. Resolve dependencies and add the current user to the fuse group as described in the Prepare the environment paragraph.

  2. Install:

    $ make
# make install

  3. If needed, uninstall:

    # make uninstall

Sample usage

  1. Generate a PHP script:

    $ httpfs generate php > httpfs.php

  2. Place the generated script in an accessible location inside the document root of your web server.

  3. Mount the remote filesystem:

    $ mkdir /tmp/httpfs/
$ httpfs mount http://target.com/httpfs.php /tmp/httpfs/ /home/john/

  4. Now the remote /home/john/ is mounted in /tmp/httpfs/, head there to browse the remote files.

  5. Unmount the filesystem:

    $ fusermount -u /tmp/httpfs/

Prepare the environment

  1. Install dependencies:

    fuse
libfuse-dev
libcurl4-openssl-dev
cmake

  2. Make sure the current user is in the fuse group (this preliminary step is mandatory to use any FUSE filesystem):

    # adduser john fuse

    Then log out and back in or start a new shell with:

    $ newgrp fuse

    to inform the system about the changes.

Resources

FUSE - http://fuse.sourceforge.net

Authors

Andrea Cardaci - http://cyrus-and.github.com

Emilio Pinna - http://disse.cting.org