dufs

I found copyparty to be too busy on the UI/UX side of things. I've settled on dufs[0], quick to deploy, fast to use use, and cross platform. [0] https://github.com/sigoden/dufs

The moderately technical solution is a single-file webserver on the computer that supports file uploads, like https://github.com/sigoden/dufs. Once it is running all you need to type on the phone is the IP:port.

https://github.com/errantmind/faf is the fastest Rust static "web server" per the most recent TechEmpower Round 23 (Plaintext); it is purposely barebones (provide content via Rust callback!) The top 3 Composite scores are all Rust web frameworks, also not necessarily intended as general-purpose web servers. https://github.com/static-web-server/static-web-server wins the SEO (and GitHub star) battle, though apparently it is old enough to have a couple unmaintained dependencies. I use https://github.com/sigoden/dufs as my personal file transfer Swiss Army knife since it natively supports file uploads; I will check out Ferron as a lighter reverse proxy with automatic SSL certs vs. Caddy.

I see your point. I already had the NAS in place so it was a nobrainer for me, but if you just want to backup to computer you can still run a light webdav server on your computer. For example, I am using dufs [0], which is very easy to deploy and configure. [0] https://github.com/sigoden/dufs

I am the self-appointed HN sales pitch for https://github.com/sigoden/dufs, a fileserver including webdav.

When python is not installed already (Windows pretty much) or the computer is the destination, I prefer https://github.com/sigoden/dufs, a single binary supporting uploads, folder .zip download, and even webdav

In a slightly more heavyweight category I've settled on dufs for my single binary file serving / uploading / password-protecting needs. https://github.com/sigoden/dufs

Sounds helpful if you're using an existing server that can run PHP. I use dufs (https://github.com/sigoden/dufs) as a standalone lightweight file server, sometimes reverse-proxied into an existing site.

I'm with you on wishing WebDAV continued its rollout. These days there are great low-drama server-side deployments like https://github.com/sigoden/dufs. It's run relative too - you could habe multiple dufs processes serving up different directories in different ways. But for WebDAV, you can't simply mount that on the client side for every OS that's equally low configutaion. For that reason, I really like sshfs as it can be initiated from the client-side without a lot of config (just a mkdir of the mapped dir), and it's OK most time despite it's lack of speed and multi-day uptime. I'm on a chromebook now and it turns out that Samba is the easiest client-side tech to use for remote file systems. DAv should've been uniquitous.

I use dufs when I need a webserver for minor things, and reverse proxy to it through Caddy if things get serious enough to need an SSL certificate. https://github.com/sigoden/dufs

https://github.com/sigoden/dufs A file server that supports static serving, uploading MIT/Apache-2 in Rust