Note: Please refrain from using your own file server if you do not have a reliable long-term host, because all links you post will depend on your server and dead file servers cause link rot.

Basic set up

1. git clone https://github.com/ledlamp/qonq.git
2. npm ci
3. echo "press random keys on your keyboard here" > auth.txt
4. node qonq.js, pm2 start qonq.js, or run however you like

You can set PORT and ADDRESS env variables if necessary.

ShareX config

{
  "Version": "12.4.1",
  "DestinationType": "ImageUploader, TextUploader, FileUploader",
  "RequestMethod": "POST",
  "RequestURL": "http://localhost:8568/upload",
  "Headers": {
    "authentication": "paste contents of auth.txt here"
  },
  "Body": "MultipartFormData",
  "FileFormName": "file"
}

You can import this custom uploader config and modify the Request URL and authentication fields as necessary.

How to get a domain

You can get a free domain like qonq.gq from Freenom at http://dot.tk. But their DNS doesn't support wildcards so you'll need to use Cloudflare DNS (free) or any DNS server that supports wildcards. Just create a wildcard A record to the address of your server.

How to enable TLS

You can use Certbot with one of the DNS plugins to obtain wildcard certificates. You'll probably want to use this server with an nginx reverse proxy and configure the SSL stuff there, but you could also modify this server for https instead.

Nginx config example

server {
        server_name qonq.gq *.qonq.gq;
        listen 443 ssl;
        ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/qonq.gq/fullchain.pem;
        ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/qonq.gq/privkey.pem;
        include /etc/letsencrypt/options-ssl-nginx.conf;
        ssl_dhparam /etc/letsencrypt/ssl-dhparams.pem;
        client_max_body_size 1G;
        location / {
                proxy_set_header Host $host;
                proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
                proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
                proxy_pass http://localhost:8568;
        }
}
server {
        server_name qonq.gq *.qonq.gq;
        listen 80;
        return 302 https://$host$request_uri;
}