LanDrive

📁 LanDrive is a fast, lightweight, and portable HTTP file server for Windows.

Features:

• Portable – single .exe file, no installation required.
• Zero dependencies – no third-party libraries used.
• Multi-file upload – upload several files at once.
• Direct streaming – files are streamed directly to disk (low memory usage).
• IP-based authentication – fast and effective for most LAN setups.
• Scalable directory listing – efficiently lists >5000 files/folders in C (low latency & CPU usage).
• Built-in LAN chat – quickly share links or text with all LAN users.

Demo:

• Command Prompt Logging:
• Client Login Interface:
• Main server Interface:
• Server Chat Interface:

Usage:

• Run:

  > drive.exe [port] [pin/pass] [root]

• Example:

  > drive.exe 80 abc123 C:\server-root-path\

• Output:

  +- LanDrive -------
  | root: C:\server-root-path\ ...
  | port: 80 ...
  | pass: abc123 ...
  +------------------
  | url: http://127.0.0.1:80/path?fo=/ ...
  | url: http://192.168.0.200:80/path?fo=/ ...
  +- Logs -----------

  ✅ Now you’re ready to go! Open the above URLs in your browser.

Build:

• Install Dependencies:

  • Download and install MSYS2.
  • Open the mingw64.exe shell (from the MSYS2 Start Menu).
  • Run the following commands:

    $ pacman -Syu        # Update system packages (MSYS2 may restart)
    $ pacman -Syu        # Run again after restart
    $ pacman -S --needed base-devel mingw-w64-x86_64-toolchain
    $ pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-go

• Set Environment Variables:

  • Open the Environment Variables:

    > rundll32.exe sysdm.cpl,EditEnvironmentVariables   # run in Command Prompt

  • Add the following paths to your Path variable:

    C:\msys64\mingw64\bin\
    C:\msys64\usr\bin\
    

• Verify Installation:

  • Run these commands to confirm:

    > gcc --version
    > g++ --version
    > go version
    

  • If you see version output, your installation was successful 👍

• Build the Project:

  • Just run build.bat
  • The file drive.exe will appear inside the Source folder.

Project Structure:

The project has the following structure:

.
│
├── build.bat
├── color.png
├── go.mod
├── html.go
├── h_chat.go
├── h_get.go
├── h_login.go
├── h_path.go
├── h_set.go
├── icon.ico
├── icon.rc
├── LICENSE
├── main.go
├── README.md
├── banner.png
│
├─── demo
│      ├── pic_1.png
│      ├── pic_2.png
│      ├── pic_3.png
│      └── pic_4.png
│
└─── embed
    │   ├── ansi.c
    │   ├── chat.js
    │   ├── login.js
    │   ├── main.c
    │   ├── main.css
    │   ├── main.js
    │   └── main.png
    │
    └─── font
            ├── CourierPrime-Bold.ttf
            ├── CourierPrime-BoldItalic.ttf
            ├── CourierPrime-Italic.ttf
            ├── CourierPrime-Regular.ttf
            └── OFL.txt

Contributing:

Feel free to contribute to this project by submitting pull requests or reporting issues. Your contributions are greatly appreciated!

License:

This project is licensed under the MIT License.

😄 Happy coding!

Fun Fact:

If you visit the /echo endpoint, for example:

• http://127.0.0.1:80/echo
• http://192.168.0.200:80/echo

the server will respond by echoing back the full client request:

GET /echo HTTP/1.1
Host: 127.0.0.1
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:128.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/128.0
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br, zstd
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5
Connection: keep-alive
Dnt: 1
Priority: u=0, i
Sec-Fetch-Dest: document
Sec-Fetch-Mode: navigate
Sec-Fetch-Site: none
Sec-Fetch-User: ?1
Sec-Gpc: 1
Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1