rclone/docs/content/commands/rclone_rcd.md

title	description	slug	url	versionIntroduced
rclone rcd	Run rclone listening to remote control commands only.	rclone_rcd	/commands/rclone_rcd/	v1.45

rclone rcd

Run rclone listening to remote control commands only.

Synopsis

This runs rclone so that it only listens to remote control commands.

This is useful if you are controlling rclone via the rc API.

If you pass in a path to a directory, rclone will serve that directory
for GET requests on the URL passed in. It will also open the URL in
the browser when rclone is run.

See the rc documentation for more info on the rc flags.

Server options

Use --rc-addr to specify which IP address and port the server should
listen on, eg --rc-addr 1.2.3.4:8000 or --rc-addr :8080 to listen to all
IPs. By default it only listens on localhost. You can use port
:0 to let the OS choose an available port.

If you set --rc-addr to listen on a public or LAN accessible IP address
then using Authentication is advised - see the next section for info.

You can use a unix socket by setting the url to unix:///path/to/socket
or just by using an absolute path name. Note that unix sockets bypass the
authentication - this is expected to be done with file system permissions.

--rc-addr may be repeated to listen on multiple IPs/ports/sockets.

--rc-server-read-timeout and --rc-server-write-timeout can be used to
control the timeouts on the server. Note that this is the total time
for a transfer.

--rc-max-header-bytes controls the maximum number of bytes the server will
accept in the HTTP header.

--rc-baseurl controls the URL prefix that rclone serves from. By default
rclone will serve from the root. If you used --rc-baseurl "/rclone" then
rclone would serve from a URL starting with "/rclone/". This is
useful if you wish to proxy rclone serve. Rclone automatically
inserts leading and trailing "/" on --rc-baseurl, so --rc-baseurl "rclone",
--rc-baseurl "/rclone" and --rc-baseurl "/rclone/" are all treated
identically.

TLS (SSL)

By default this will serve over http. If you want you can serve over
https. You will need to supply the --rc-cert and --rc-key flags.
If you wish to do client side certificate validation then you will need to
supply --rc-client-ca also.

--rc-cert should be a either a PEM encoded certificate or a concatenation
of that with the CA certificate. --krc-ey should be the PEM encoded
private key and --rc-client-ca should be the PEM encoded client
certificate authority certificate.

--rc-min-tls-version is minimum TLS version that is acceptable. Valid
values are "tls1.0", "tls1.1", "tls1.2" and "tls1.3" (default
"tls1.0").

Template

--rc-template allows a user to specify a custom markup template for HTTP
and WebDAV serve functions. The server exports the following markup
to be used within the template to server pages:

Parameter	Description
.Name	The full path of a file/directory.
.Title	Directory listing of .Name
.Sort	The current sort used. This is changeable via ?sort= parameter
	Sort Options: namedirfirst,name,size,time (default namedirfirst)
.Order	The current ordering used. This is changeable via ?order= parameter
	Order Options: asc,desc (default asc)
.Query	Currently unused.
.Breadcrumb	Allows for creating a relative navigation
-- .Link	The relative to the root link of the Text.
-- .Text	The Name of the directory.
.Entries	Information about a specific file/directory.
-- .URL	The 'url' of an entry.
-- .Leaf	Currently same as 'URL' but intended to be 'just' the name.
-- .IsDir	Boolean for if an entry is a directory or not.
-- .Size	Size in Bytes of the entry.
-- .ModTime	The UTC timestamp of an entry.

Authentication

By default this will serve files without needing a login.

You can either use an htpasswd file which can take lots of users, or
set a single username and password with the --rc-user and --rc-pass flags.

If no static users are configured by either of the above methods, and client
certificates are required by the --client-ca flag passed to the server, the
client certificate common name will be considered as the username.

Use --rc-htpasswd /path/to/htpasswd to provide an htpasswd file. This is
in standard apache format and supports MD5, SHA1 and BCrypt for basic
authentication. Bcrypt is recommended.

To create an htpasswd file:

touch htpasswd
htpasswd -B htpasswd user
htpasswd -B htpasswd anotherUser

The password file can be updated while rclone is running.

Use --rc-realm to set the authentication realm.

Use --rc-salt to change the password hashing salt from the default.

rclone rcd <path to files to serve>* [flags]

Options

  -h, --help   help for rcd

See the global flags page for global options not listed here.

SEE ALSO

• rclone - Show help for rclone commands, flags and backends.