Flaskup!

• FLASKUP_TITLE: personnalize the title of this webapp (default: ‘Flaskup!’)

• FLASKUP_UPLOAD_FOLDER: the root folder where you want to store uploaded files (default: /tmp/flaskup).

• FLASKUP_MAX_DAYS: the maximum number of days a file will be available, the file will be deleted after FLASKUP_MAX_DAYS days (default: 30).

• FLASKUP_MAX_CONTACTS: limit contacts number, if the user gives more contacts, they will be silently discarded (default: 10 ; 0 means ‘no contacts’ and the textarea won’t be displayed)

• FLASKUP_KEY_LENGTH: the lenght of the generated key used to identify a file (default: 6 – more than 2 billions keys)

• FLASKUP_DELETE_KEY_LENGTH: the length of the generated key used to authenticate the owner of a file before deleting it (default: 4 – more than 1 million keys)

• FLASKUP_ADMINS: list with email address of the administrators of Flaskup!, this is currently used only to send mails when an error occurs (default: [], empty list)

• FLASKUP_NOTIFY: list all actions that should send an email notification to the admins (default: [], no notification)

  • add: a new file has been uploaded

  • delete: a file has been deleted

• FLASKUP_NGINX_UPLOAD_MODULE_ENABLED: indicate whether you want to enable support for the Nginx upload-module (default: False)

• FLASKUP_NGINX_UPLOAD_MODULE_STORE: must be set to the upload_store of the Nginx upload-module (default: None)

• FLASKUP_UPLOAD_PASSWORDS: a list of tuples, each tuple contains a password and an identifier (default: [], no password required)

• FLASKUP_UPLOAD_PASSWORDS_CHECK: method to check a submitted password against passwords in FLASKUP_UPLOAD_PASSWORDS (default: use cleartext passwords)

Flask

http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/config/#builtin-configuration-values

You must at least define the SECRET_KEY. To generate a good secret key, you can use a cryptographic random generator:

>>> import os
>>> os.urandom(24)
'_\x12\xab\x90D\xc4\xfd{\xd9\xe2\xf3-\xa8\xd3\x1d\x1ej\x8b\x13x\x8ce\xc5\xe0'

I18N (Flask-Babel)

https://pythonhosted.org/Flask-Babel/#configuration

Mail notification (Flask-Mail)

https://pythonhosted.org/Flask-Mail/#configuring-flask-mail

Example configuration file

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

from passlib.hash import bcrypt

DEBUG = True
SECRET_KEY = '_\x12\xab\x90D\xc4\xfd{\xd9\xe2\xf3-\xa8\xd3\x1d\x1ej\x8b\x13x\x8ce\xc5\xe0'
FLASKUP_UPLOAD_FOLDER = '/srv/flaskup/data'
FLASKUP_MAX_DAYS = 10
FLASKUP_KEY_LENGTH = 4
MAIL_DEFAULT_SENDER = 'flaskup@example.com'
FLASKUP_ADMINS = ['admin@example.com', 'admin@example.org']
FLASKUP_NOTIFY = ['add', 'delete']
FLASKUP_UPLOAD_PASSWORDS = [
  ('$2a$12$oIWeziyq4wjF08gntfU4w.AQZfYbbQoK7y13ParN83G7ta.qtN2.e', 'pw1'),
  ('$2a$12$zQ/hzog/iYr49fbo0mitS.y9f.uHP.7IyqWgk5/S1Ict50HRl4XxW', 'pw2'),
]
FLASKUP_UPLOAD_PASSWORDS_CHECK = bcrypt.verify

List of valid passwords

Valid passwords are stored in a tuple (with a password identifier), those tuples are stored as a list in FLASKUP_UPLOAD_PASSWORDS. If FLASKUP_UPLOAD_PASSWORDS is empty, then no valid password are required and anybody can upload a file.

FLASKUP_UPLOAD_PASSWORDS = [
  ('password1', 'identifier for password 1'),
  ('secretpassword2', 'identifier for password 2'),
]

The password identifier is stored in the *.data.json file next to the uploaded file. This permits to identify which password was used to upload the file.

A password is never required to download files, only to upload them.

Use hashed passwords

By default, Flaskup! will treat passwords from FLASKUP_UPLOAD_PASSWORDS as cleartext (not hashed). If you want to put hashed passwords in FLASKUP_UPLOAD_PASSWORDS, you must define FLASKUP_UPLOAD_PASSWORDS_CHECK.

FLASKUP_UPLOAD_PASSWORDS_CHECK must be a reference to a method that accepts two arguments: the user submitted password and the hashed password (from FLASKUP_UPLOAD_PASSWORDS), and then returns True if passwords match, else False.

from passlib.hash import bcrypt

FLASKUP_UPLOAD_PASSWORDS = [
  ('$2a$12$oIWeziyq4wjF08gntfU4w.AQZfYbbQoK7y13ParN83G7ta.qtN2.e', 'pw1'),
  ('$2a$12$zQ/hzog/iYr49fbo0mitS.y9f.uHP.7IyqWgk5/S1Ict50HRl4XxW', 'pw2'),
]
FLASKUP_UPLOAD_PASSWORDS_CHECK = bcrypt.verify

Configure Flaskup!

You must define the two following configuration values:

• FLASKUP_NGINX_UPLOAD_MODULE_ENABLED: must be set to True

• FLASKUP_NGINX_UPLOAD_MODULE_STORE: must be set to the upload_store of the upload-module

Example configuration:

FLASKUP_NGINX_UPLOAD_MODULE_ENABLED = True
FLASKUP_NGINX_UPLOAD_MODULE_STORE = /tmp/nginx_upload_module

Configure Nginx

• be sure that you compiled Nginx with the upload-module

• create a folder where uploaded files will be stored, preferably on the same disk or partition as FLASKUP_UPLOAD_FOLDER to avoid unnecessary I/O operations (this folder is named upload_store in your Nginx config)

• check permissions on the upload_store folder: users running Nginx and Flaskup! must have read/write permissions

• edit your configuration file (add the /upload location)

Example configuration:

server {
    listen [::]:80;
    server_name "flaskup.example.com";
    client_max_body_size 2g;

    access_log /var/log/nginx/flaskup_access.log combined;
    error_log  /var/log/nginx/flaskup_error.log;

    proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
    proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
    proxy_set_header Host $http_host;

    location /static/ {
            alias   /path/to/env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/flaskup/static/;
    }
    location = /upload {
            upload_pass             @upstream;
            upload_store            /tmp/nginx_upload_module;
            upload_store_access     user:rw;

            upload_set_form_field   $upload_field_name.name "$upload_file_name";
            upload_set_form_field   $upload_field_name.path "$upload_tmp_path";

            upload_pass_form_field  "^myemail$|^mycontacts$";
            upload_cleanup          400-599;
    }
    location / {
        proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8000;
    }
    location @upstream {
        proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8000;
    }
}