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introducing copyparty, the FOSS file server (www.youtube.com)
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I made a video about copyparty, the selfhosted fileserver I've been making for the past 5 years.

The main focus of the video is the features, but it also touches upon configuration. Was hoping it would be easier to follow than the readme on github... not sure how well that went, but hey :D

This video is also available to watch on the copyparty demo server, as a high-quality AV1 file and a lower-quality h264.

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[–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I think Copyparty would be great for that purpose. The only thing you're missing is a way to expose it to the internet, such as a public IP or some tunnel

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  • [–] [S] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Yep! Depending on what your home connection looks like, you have a few options:

    if you are lucky enough to have your own private IP-address and are able to open ports, then you're almost done already -- you can put copyparty on some port (or keep the default 3923), and then anyone could connect to it by going to https://your.ip.address:3923/

    (with this approach, you will want to create your own HTTPS certificate so the traffic is properly encrypted -- the best option here is to get a domain and get a certificate for the domain)

    however, if you are behind CGNAT, meaning your internet provider has given you a shared IP-address, then people cannot connect directly to your home-PC. One way around that issue is by setting up a machine somewhere on the internet which bridges the gap back home to your PC. Cloudflare offers this as service, and this is explained in the copyparty readme -- see the "at home" section for one way to do that.

    if you are against using Cloudflare for idealistic reasons (they are becoming quite powerful since they run a whole lot of the internet), then you can set up a cheap VPS which serves the same purpose. That's my setup, and how you are accessing the copyparty demo server right now -- I have the cheapest VPS you can get from Hetzner. The VPS is running nginx, and it forwards the traffic to my homeserver through an SSH tunnel. I haven't documented this approach in the copyparty readme, but I have a feeling a lot of other people have :>

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