imagehost

What Is It?

imagehost (original name, huh?) is a simple, self-hosted image upload service. It receives uploaded files, optionally archives them to a private S3 bucket, strips all metadata from the image and corrects rotation, and then uploads the "clean" image to a public S3 bucket. The public URL for the uploaded image is then returned.

Why Should I Use This?

• If you want a simple, self-hosted alternative to other image uploading services.
• If you care about removing metadata from images before sharing them.
• If you think it's nifty.

How Do I Use This?

Currently, you need to compile from source - instructions for doing this are below. In the future, there will likely be "releases" consisting of statically-linked binaries that can simply be copied into place, configured, and run.

Building From Source

You need the following tools installed:

• Go
• godep

There's a Makefile provided, or you can simply run godep go build -o build/imagehost . in the root directory to build the binary.

Configuration

Configuration is stored in a YAML file that is passed to the program upon startup. An example configuration is included, with comments explaining what each value does. imagehost will also verify the configuration upon startup, and try to provide a useful error if anything is incorrect.

Running

./imagehost -c config.yaml

That's it.

Contributors

• Andrew Dunham (@andrew-d)
• Hans Neilsen (@hansnielsen)

License

MIT