Newbie Questions

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Hey Everyone,

A few questions for you all:

  • Can Syncthing be installed and run successfully in a ‘Shared Hosting’ environment? Meaning, I don’t have a dedicated VPS or Server. From what I saw, I can just download the binary directly in a particular folder within my /home folder, I can cd into that directory then run syncthing? Is this correct?

  • I saw that there is a flavor known as ‘Syncthing-GTK’. What exactly is this ‘flavor’ for and how is it different from regular Syncthing?

Thank you!

BJ

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If you can run a binary, you should be able to run syncthing. Gtk and others are GUI wrappers which provide a native UI rather than a web ui.

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@AudriusButkevicius,

Thank you very much for responding. I currently have a Shared Hosted Account running 64-Bit ‘CloudLinux’. I also don’t have root access.

How do you recommend I attempt to install Syncthing on ‘CloudLinux’?

Thank you,

BJ

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There is nothing to install, as I said, if you can run a binary, just download it and run it. If you have sone access to startup scripts, you can add it there to make sure it runs on startup.

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Hello AudriusButkevicius,

Thank you again for your help with my questions. Since the Server that is hosting my Shared Account is running on 64-bit version of CloudLinux, which specific binary do you recommend for me to download?

Also, if I am able to run the binary, how would I be able to access the WebUI?

Thanks!

BJ.

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[quote=“b1ggjoe, post:5, topic:2654”]…64-bit version of CloudLinux, which specific binary do you recommend for me to download? [/quote]

You need Linux 64bit

You should be able to access the WebUI from port 8384.

Here’s more info for you. By the way, CloudLinux is similar to CentOS:

If you need help with specific install questions post here in the forum. Good luck!

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Unless the default config has changed in the meantime, I am pretty sure you will have to modify the config file manually (~/.config/syncthing/config.xml):

In the key <gui enabled="true" tls="false"> <address>127.0.0.1:8384</address> you need to change the address to someting like 0.0.0.0:8384, otherwise you won’t be able to access it. The first thing you should do, once you reached the ui is setting up a password…

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right, see the wiki for more info