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Hello,
just wanted to share that I have successfully hosted copyparty instance behind cloudflare on my porator laptop :D
you can use it to share memes or use it as temporary storage, I don't have any idea of how to manage a public facing service but I will figure it out.
Take. It. Down.
Do you know how much CSAM was on Lemmy when it first got started?
This kind of service should be open for friends and family only, NOT the whole wide world.
Doesn't look like you have set any limitations on uploading to it?
I'll just go ahead and upload my 20TB or so of linux ISOs to your public facing website where everyone can see what is uploaded to it...
Yeah but don't do that please😥
There's no way you're actually this dumb. Come on. Quit trolling.
Not dumb but lazy 😣
I don’t have any idea of how to manage a public facing service but I will figure it out.
Terrible move.
What if someone puts something illegal on your server? How do you know someone hasn't done that already?
Afaik I can delete stuff using the administration account but I will double check.
I don't mean to add to the discourse here or to keep giving you hypotheticals but, while learning to self host is fun and cool, you really do not want this thing on public Internet. Even if you can delete files to prevent uncouth things, what if someone uploads something while you're asleep, or away from your computer? Do you have others monitoring the instance to take down CSAM or other illegal material? What if someone uploads malware and it executes on your machine? If you must leave it exposed, you should allow only family and friends to access via a strongly passworded account(I think that is configurable with copy party).
If you really want to expose services, try a media server like Plex or Jellyfin. You don't want strangers to upload things to your machines.
This just in:
Looks like someone took the liberty of uploading copyrighted shows and 3D printable gun parts to his file server.
I really don't know why someone is that stupid... People explain why he/she should take it offline, for obvious reasons... and he/she still think it's a good idea and continue. Some people have to learn it the hard way...
For the love of Christ, take it down. Why would you do that to yourself?
Inb4 it gets abused.
Error 1033 Ray ID: 997d292e2f4c62e5 • 2025-11-01 17:37:34 UTC Cloudflare Tunnel error What happened?
You've requested a page on a website (copyparty.ghodawalaaman.xyz) that is on the Cloudflare network. The host (copyparty.ghodawalaaman.xyz) is configured as an Cloudflare Tunnel, and Cloudflare is currently unable to resolve it.
ohh it was my network manage acting up sorry. you can hopefully access it now, try again.
I never tested copyparty... Thank you for the test... Nice! I am using OpenList at this time, but CC is also nice.
Copy party works pretty well, I've liked it. That said I don't have mine open to everyone, it requires a password for view/read/edit rights or whatnot, which you can easily divy out using a config file. (Not the most secure, but that's because I haven't put in any protections myself)
