Fipes provides you a simple way to share files with your friends.

• Provides a small web application.
• Easy to install, easy to launch, easy to use.
• Doesn't keep any data about you or your files.
• Free as in freedom.

• Erlang (R14B04 or later)
• Rebar (already in the repository)

$ git clone https://github.com/tOkeshu/fipes.git
$ cd fipes
$ make app

These commands should pull the Erlang dependencies via Rebar and build a release.

Here is a sample configuration for nginx:

# /etc/nginx/sites-available/fipes.example.com
server {
    listen   80;

    root /path/to/fipes/public;
    index index.html index.htm;

    server_name fipes.example.com;
    server_name_in_redirect off;

    location / {
           proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:3473/index.html;
    }

    location /fipes {
           proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:3473/fipes;
    }

    location /static/ {
           proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:3473/static/;
    }
}

Enable your site:

$ sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/fipes.example.com /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/fipes.example.com
$ sudo /etc/init.d/nginx reload

$ cd fipes
$ ./rel/fipes/bin/fipes start # start the server on port 3473

Then open a browser to http://fipes.example.com (where fipes.example.com is your domain).

If you just want to test the application on your machine, just edit your /etc/hosts:

# /etc/hosts
127.0.1.1	fipes.example.com

• For now, Fipes can't be used without Nginx proxying the application on port 3473 (as shown in the sample file). Any other configuration will probably fail.

• Reloading the page while you're in a Fipe will stops the browser from serving your files. This is normal as the JavaScript File objects are lost while refreshing the page. You'll have to offers these files again.

• For now, anyone can enter a Fipe.

Fipes is a Portmanteau word combined from the two words file and pipes. In other words, Fipes can be seen as a pipe for files.

Fipes is released under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License v3 or later.