Media Server in Rust

This a small media web server written in Rust using the Rocket web framework. Simply point the server to a root directory (specified in Rocket.toml) and you can browse the directories and play video files in those directories. It uses video.js as Video Player.

This is private for fun project. Do not use it in production or any serious settings.

Installing/Running

Edit Rocket.toml to set your port, and IP. Create a mount.toml maps mount points (i.e., prefixes of the URLs exposed) to local directories. Example mount.toml:

"u" = "/Users/auser"
"desk/top" = "/Users/auser/Desktop/Desktop"

Then simply run cargo build (it will install the needed JavaScript and CSS dependencies as well) and cargo run.

Limitations / TODOS

• Support for other video formats (currently only files ending in '*.mp4' are shown)
• Support for other media formats (images, PDFs, etc.)
• Sorting of files and directories (alphabetical etc.)
• Nicer layout
• Root path on Windows (how can you serve multiple drives, e.g., c:\ and d:\); possibly also for other systems to specify multiple roots
• Refactor code for serving byte ranges (Ranged_File) and possibly extract it into its own crate
• Add possibility to go up a directory ("..") except in the root directory