Overview

minidlna-web provides a web frontend to the SQlite database that minidlna builds for itself. It allows you to use a web browser to explore the media that minidlna is hosting, and it offers downloads links that fetch the media directly from the minildna service.

Design goals

minidlna-web should be:

A single binary file for ease of deployment (including all web assets)
Very light and fast (so it can run on the sort of small machines minidlna itself can)
Read-only
Minimal 3rd party dependencies. Currently only pulls in modernc.org/sqlite
Minimally configurable

Cmdline options

$ ./minidlna-web --help
Usage of ./minidlna-web:
  -base-url string
        Base URL of the minidlna /MediaItems/ path, e.g. http://hostname:8200/MediaItems/
  -db-file string
        Path of the minidlna sqlite file, e.g. /var/cache/minidlna/files.db
  -listen-addr string
        Address on which to listen
  -listen-port int
        TCP port on which to listen (default 3333)

Running minidlna-web

Git clone the repo: git clone https://github.com/mordyovits/minidlna-web.git
In the repo top directory, run go build
Run the resulting binary with the required cmdline args, e.g.: ./minidlna-web -base-url http://192.168.1.XXX:8200/MediaItems/ -db-file /var/cache/minidlna/files.db
Access minidlna-web with a web browser (defaults to port 3333)

Note: If you want minidlna-web to read the main sqlite database file that minidlna built and is maintaining then you will probably need to run minidlna as the minidlna role user account (usually minidlna).

TODO

Add search functionality
Add tree view of Objects
Add full path with clickable components in header breadcrumbs
Deal with caching headers (version the static assets?)
Use template inheritance to DRY
Add FastCGI support so it can run under a web server (which can provide TLS, authentication, and authorization)
Improve the HTML and web design, which is very crude
Add systemd unit file
Add RPM build (spec) and DPKG build files
Support multiple languages

Contributing