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Hi!

I'm supplying a small camp I'm participating in with Internet/Wifi, so I built an x86 OpenWRT router with an LTE modem... it took forever, but now it's working. (camp is quite outback for open wifi routers) So now I thought: What if we could share files for... anything easily via the router without setting up SAMBA on their phones or whatever.

So I thought of services like Sharedrop, or drop.lol, or litterbox.moe or pastebin or whatever. And that it would be super convenient to fileshare without the Internet or whatever.

There are a lot of self-hosted options available but which ones run on that 8GB OpenWRT router I set up. (Should be easy - that's a powerhouse for writeaple drive space in a router.

So: what's the best idea here? I can set up a http server, but I guess an ftp server would work as well. Althoug it would be perfect if it worked with phones and ad-hoc filesharing (download and upload, preferably with QR-code generation).

I know stuff like magic wormhole or localsend or warp, but all of those are a bit of a hassle for noobs to setup (i.e.: opening a firewall, which you shouldn't do if you don't know what you're doing). That's why I was thinking: hosted in the router.

You got any ideas what I can run on my potato of a server/beefcake of a router?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago

Rememeber dont leave it open to the internet, make sure you either have to be on the wifi or vpn in to access it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago

Looks interesting and has an openWRT package. I'll check it out, thanks!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

An HTTP based file browser is probably the most universal, as all anyone needs is a web browser.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

I use SFTPGo, it's also my WebDAV server, but I don't know if it works on openwrt.