upload-service
A File-Upload Web Application capable of dealing with LARGE files. The backend is written in Perl using http://mojolicious.org, the frontend leverages http://github.com/23/resumable.js
installation
Use the classic ./configure; make install approach.
Once installed you will find a htdoc directory in your installation target.
Copy this directory into your webserver and configure the webserver to execute fcgi (fastcgi) scripts. Note that in the htdocs directory there is also a .htaccess file.
Since the file-upload service is based on Mojolicious, you can use any of the modes of operation supported by Mojolicious.
configuration
The upload service gets is configured via several environement variables.
Set US_ROOT to define where the uploaded files should end up
US_ROOT=/path
The system has two modes of operatation. Single user mode and multi user mode
US_SINGLEUSER=0|1
in single user mode the uploads go straight to $US_ROOT in multi user mode the uploads go to $US_ROOT/$USERNAME/INBOX
in multi user mode the url for upload is expected to contain the $USERNAME and the script must run as root (use sudo) so that it can suid to the recipient of the files.
In single user mode you get
In multi-user mode you get
http://your-site/script-url/USERNAME/
In multi user mode, the MOJO_TMPDIR must point to an empty directory with mode 0777.
Enjoy! tobi