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@ -7,8 +7,14 @@ This is a no-bullshit file hosting and URL shortening service that also runs
Configuration
-------------
To change settings, modify ``instance/config.py``. For more information on
instance configuration, see `the Flask documentation <https://flask.palletsprojects.com/en/2.0.x/config/#instance-folders>`_.
To configure 0x0, create ``instance/config.py``.
The defaults are at the start of ``fhost.py``. To change them,
add them to ``instance/config.py``— for example::
SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI = "sqlite:///some/path/db.sqlite"
For more information on instance configuration, see
`the Flask documentation <https://flask.palletsprojects.com/en/2.0.x/config/#instance-folders>`_.
To customize the home and error pages, simply create a ``templates`` directory
in your instance directory and copy any templates you want to modify there.
@ -24,8 +30,10 @@ where ``/up`` is whatever you’ve configured as ``FHOST_STORAGE_PATH``.
For all other servers, set ``FHOST_USE_X_ACCEL_REDIRECT`` to ``False`` and
``USE_X_SENDFILE`` to ``True``, assuming your server supports this.
Otherwise, Flask will serve the file with chunked encoding, which sucks and
should be avoided at all costs.
Otherwise, Flask will serve the file with chunked encoding, which has several
downsides, one of them being that range requests will not work. This is a
problem for example when streaming media files: It won’t be possible to seek,
and some ISOBMFF (MP4) files will not play at all.
To make files expire, simply create a cronjob that runs ``cleanup.py`` every
now and then.