[tutorial] Firefox send: deployment method of Firefox open source temporary file sharing service platform

Preface

I believe that the big guys who often surf the Internet often need to share files temporarily , What we usually come into contact with 、 The commonly used ones are cow quick pass 、 Firefox Send wait , Firefox Send The service is designed to provide simple 、 Private file sharing services , You can upload and share no more than... Without logging in to your Firefox account 1G The file of , After logging in to Firefox, you can upload and share no more than 2.5G The file of . And Firefox promises that the service is end-to-end , Sharing links can be encrypted , Burn at maturity , Very safe . Sometimes those of us who like to toss often think , Can I build a similar temporary file sharing platform ？ Blogger Xiaojun found , That we use a lot Firefox Send It is an open source project of Firefox , I just want to try to build this program myself , And record the installation process and make a tutorial for your reference ！

Firefox Send Official website

[btn url="https://send.firefox.com"]Firefox Send[/btn]

preparation

1. a VPS / Take it alone
2. Node.js 10.0+
3. Redis Server（ Optional ）

Set up a tutorial

1. install Node.js

# Centos  System 
curl --silent --location https://rpm.nodesource.com/setup_10.x | bash -
yum -y install nodejs 
# Debian  System 
curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_10.x | bash -
apt install nodejs

If the data returned after execution is the same as that shown in the figure above, it means installation Node.js success After the installation is successful, you can use node -v and npm -v Check the installed version number , The version I installed is shown below ：

2. install Redis

# Centos  System 
yum -y install redis
systemctl start redis
systemctl enable redis

# Debian  System 
apt install redis-server
systemctl start redis-server
systemctl enable redis-server

3. install Screen And other software

# Centos  System 
yum install screen
yum -y groupinstall "Development Tools"
 
# Debian  System 
apt install make gcc g++ screen

4. Git Fox's Firefox Send And install and run

git clone https://github.com/mozilla/send.git
cd send
npm install
screen -S send
npm start

After startup, press the Ctrl+A+D sign out Screen window , The program will always run in the background here , Installation is complete , Now you can access it through a browser http://YourServerIP:8080 that will do If you're still Screen in , Then every response of the program will output