Web UI to share files stored in S3
reddit / selfhosted

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youRFate · 2023-12-12 12:12

I have a bunch of files in S3 that are fairly big (around 10gb each,
many of them). I sometimes want friends to have access to them, so
what I did is mount the s3 bucket in s3fs on a server and have a
simple file lister running in a webserver (this one:
https://www.directorylister.com/).

However, the chain of client -> server -> s3fs -> s3 is sometimes
unreliable.

Is there some kind of web frontend for s3 that I can host where users
can download files and get them server directly from s3, without me
having to share s3 api keys with my friends?

The files are on wasabi s3, so api fees don't apply, and its super low
traffic, so I should be fine with their fair use.

The server I use is a hetzner vps.

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youRFate · 2023-12-12 12:34

To be honest, a tool that I point to a folder in my s3 bucket that
then creates a list of direct links for them with a configurateable
lifetime would probably also work, I could give that file to a friend
and have them download it with some bulk downloader software.

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thekrautboy · 2023-12-12 12:44

SFTPGo to connect to S3 and then any standard SFTP client to connect
to SFTPGo.

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lilolalu · 2023-12-12 22:24

Rclone Web UI

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youRFate · 2023-12-12 22:51

I have used nextcloud before, but it doesn't deep-link to the s3
files, it downloads them to the server to share.

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lilolalu · 2023-12-12 23:00

I think unless you run the GUI on the same machine as the S3 Buckets,
copying the file to the GUI server and then serving them is what all
of them do. At the end you can just mount S3 via fuse and use whatever
GUI you fancy.

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lilolalu · 2023-12-12 23:18

https://blog.min.io/filesystem-on-object-store-is-a-bad-idea/

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murdaBot · 2023-12-13 07:22

That's not really relevant for OP's use case. Yes, it is a bad idea,
but OP isn't using it as a filesystem, so the limitations of object
stores don't apply.

NextCloud could very easily just serve the S3 link to the end user for
downloading, rather than downloading the S3 file to the local
filesystem, and the serving that. But instead it performs an
intermediate download of the file, which is kinda boneheaded.

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lilolalu · 2023-12-13 07:40

It always great to see that so many people think they know better.
Well, if he has problems with the direct download via s3fs, an
intermediate chaching mechanism might be solution to his problem. In
any case, there are different ways to access s3 buckets from
nextcloud, as external storage or as primary storage.


[https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/latest/admin\_manual/configuration\
_files/primary\_storage.html](https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/latest
/admin_manual/configuration_files/primary_storage.html)


In any case, i mentioned other tools he could use, here is another
one:
[https://oxyno-zeta.github.io/s3-proxy/](https://oxyno-
zeta.github.io/s3-proxy/)

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[deleted] · 2023-12-18 11:22

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Hungry_Acanthaceae78 · 2023-12-24 03:17

any reliable [sftp
server](https://www.sysax.com/server/?rfrr=fpgxa91d) client could work
or rclone and or nextcloud