Github Pages Mini Fileserver

A mini fileserver which runs on top of Github pages

DEMO

https://muink.github.io/ghpages-mini-fileserver.html

Get started

• Setup your Github page here https://pages.github.com/
• Clone ghpages-mini-fileserver

git clone https://github.com/muink/ghpages-mini-fileserver

• Remove default home folder resources/

rm -rf ghpages-mini-fileserver/resources

• Set up your home folder like mydepot/

target='mydepot'
# Create directory "<target>"
mkdir ghpages-mini-fileserver/${target}
# Set home folder "<target>" in prenodes.sh
sed -i "s,^\(SERVER_HOME=\).*,\1${target}/," ghpages-mini-fileserver/prenodes.sh

• Run prenodes.sh every time at file is added to the home folder
• Start Jekyll

cd ghpages-mini-fileserver
jekyll serve

• Open Webbrowser at http://localhost:4000/

Add content to your server

• Just put your stuff inside the home folder and commit & push
• Open your page at https://username.github.io/<this_repo>

Important

Github will complain if you host binaries and/or very large files. If you upload Binaries compress (Zip) them first and try to not abuse with file size.