I’m gonna start this off by admitting that I am not a smart man, I’m a windows user and I rarely ever use a command terminal, so if you are kind enough to help me out please have patience with me.

I’ve spent a good portion of today trying to find some sort of self hosted file sharing thing and eventually I found Filebrowser, so I downloaded their executable and ran it and I managed to get it mostly working how I want. However it all started going downhill when I tried to connect from outside my network. I know how to portforward so I opened up port 8080 but no luck. I figured out that I need to change the address it listens to but I have no idea how to change the config. I’ve looked through their documentation and I can see the commands I need to use but I have no idea how to use them, I’ve tried command prompt and the shell on the site.

Thanks in advance

  • zfa@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    At least on Linux you just include the bind address and port on the cmdline, e.g:

    ./filebrowser -a 127.0.0.1 -p 8008

    EDIT: Just downloaded the Windows bin and seems to be exactly the same.

    • Mocha-0@alien.topOPBEnglish
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      11 months ago

      Thanks for your comment.

      Is the cmdline you put that in the one on the browser interface, because when I put that command in it says “Command not allowed”