mattmcn9/flask-basic-auth

This is a lightweight file server built with Flask, featuring:

• HTTP file browsing (like python3 -m http.server)

• HTTP Basic Authentication

• Configurable via environment variables

• Dockerized for easy deployment

Installation from Docker registry hub.

You can download the image with the following command:

docker pull mattmcn9/flask-basic-auth

Environment variables

This image uses environment variables to allow the configuration of some parameters at run time:

• Variable name: USERNAME
• Default value: user
• Accepted values: Any string. Avoid whitespaces and special chars.
• Description: Username for the login. If you don't specify it through the USERNAME environment variable at run time, user will be used by default.

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• Variable name: PASSWORD
• Default value: password
• Accepted values: Any string. Avoid whitespaces and special chars.
• Description: Password for the login. If you don't specify it through the PASSWORD environment variable at run time, password will be used by default.

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• Variable name: DATA_DIR
• Default value: /data
• Accepted values: Any string.
• Description: Data directory for the http service to display. If you don't specify it through the DATA_DIR environment variable at run time, /data will be used by default.

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• Variable name: PORT
• Default value: 8080
• Accepted values: Any port number
• Description: If you don't specify a port number, through the PORT environment variable at run time, 8080 will be used by default

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Use cases

1. Create a temporary container for testing purposes:

  docker run --rm -p 8080:8080 mattmcn9/flask-basic-auth

2. Create a container and set the login information, with a binded data directory:

docker run -d -p 8080:8080 -v /my/data/directory:/data -e USERNAME=myUser -e PASSWORD=MyPassword! --name flask-http-auth mattmcn9/flask-basic-auth