File server

Special thanks @lriy816 for finding a bug with non-ASCII characters!

Yet another version of file server by me.

Old version with Vue 2 front-end is available on branch v1.

This variant of server is to work without any front-end framework and to be customizable (there shall be html building blocks, icons and a stylesheet in webapp/assets/).

Why this file server? Why once again? Because this one:

• has front-end without any single line of javascript, looks neat on both mobile and desktop:

• has much more understandable request pipeline:

• is easily customizable, even though it's pretty solid, you may want to adapt it for your needs.

Prerequisites

• Any OS that supports .NET
• .NET SDK v6.0

Usage

Quick tryout

cd webapp
dotnet run -- <root-directory> <port>

Publish self-contained for Linux and run it

dotnet publish --os linux --self-contained -p:PublishTrimmed=True -o ./dist
./dist/FileServer <root-directory> <port>

Manual minification of self-contained

# this can save up to 5 megabytes
rm ./dist/*Mvc*.dll
rm ./dist/*Razor*.dll
rm ./dist/*HttpSys*.dll
rm ./dist/*IIS*.dll
rm ./dist/*SignalR*.dll

Web outline

• /fs/{path} - shall return directory or file at given path relative to root-directory
• /assets/{path} - shall return asset file from webapp/assets/
• /download/{path} - shall return file at given path relative to root-directory as downloadable attachment

Copyright notes

• .NET: respecting original copyright, more info here
• File server: MIT License © 2022 - 2023 Dmitriy Naumov naumov1024@gmail.com