SFTPGo is an open-source SFTP server that supports various authentication methods and storage backends. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install SFTPGo on Void Linux.
Before starting this tutorial, you will need:
SFTPGo requires some dependencies to be installed on your server. You can install them using the following command:
sudo xbps-install -y go git
This command will install Golang and Git on your server.
Now, we can download and install SFTPGo on our server. Follow the steps below:
First, clone the SFTPGo repository from Github:
git clone https://github.com/drakkan/sftpgo.git
Switch to the SFTPGo directory:
cd sftpgo
Run the following command to build the SFTPGo binary:
make
This will create a binary named sftpgo in the sftpgo/bin directory.
Move the binary to /usr/local/bin:
sudo mv bin/sftpgo /usr/local/bin/
After installing SFTPGo, we need to create a configuration file. Follow the steps below:
Create a configuration directory:
sudo mkdir /etc/sftpgo
Copy the sample configuration file to the configuration directory:
sudo cp conf/sftpgo-sample.yaml /etc/sftpgo/sftpgo.yaml
Edit the configuration file using your favorite text editor:
sudo nano /etc/sftpgo/sftpgo.yaml
You can use the sample configuration file as a reference for configuring SFTPGo.
After configuring SFTPGo, we can start the SFTP server using the following command:
sudo sftpgo --config /etc/sftpgo/sftpgo.yaml
This command will start the SFTP server using the configuration file that we created earlier.
In this tutorial, we learned how to install and configure SFTPGo on Void Linux. You can now use SFTPGo as a secure file transfer server on your Void Linux server.
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