XBackBone 📤

XBackBone is a simple, self-hosted, lightweight PHP backend for the instant sharing tool ShareX. It supports uploading and displaying images, GIF, video, code, formatted text, and file downloading and uploading. Also have a web UI with multi user managemant and past uploads history.

Features

• Supports every upload type from ShareX.
• User management, multi user features.
• Public and private uploads.
• Web UI for each user.
• Logging system.

How to Install

XBackBone require PHP >= 7.1, the composer package manager and writable storage path:

• Clone this repository in your web root folder:

git clone http://github.com/SergiX44/XBackBone .

• Run a composer from your shell:

composer install --no-dev

• Setup the config file:

cp config.example.php config.php

By default, XBackBone will use Sqlite as DB engine, and a storage dir in the current directory. You can leave these settings unchanged for a simple personal installation. You must set the base_url, or remove it for get dynamically the url from request (not raccomanded).

return [
	'base_url' => 'https://myaswesomedomain.com', // no trailing slash
	'storage_dir' => 'storage',
	'db' => [
		'connection' => 'sqlite',
		'dsn' => 'resources/database/xbackbone.db',
		'username' => null, // username and password not needed for sqlite
		'password' => null,
	]
];

• Finally, run the migrate script to setup the database

php bin/migrate --install

• Now just login with admin/admin, be sure to change these credentials after your first login.

Notes

If you do not use Apache, or the Apache .htaccess is not enabled, set your web server so that the static/ folder is the only one accessible from the outside, otherwise even private uploads and logs will be accessible!