Install SFTPGo on Debian

SFTPGo is an event-driven file transfer solution. It supports multiple protocols (SFTP, SCP, FTP/S, WebDAV, HTTP/S) and multiple storage backends.

Installation

Install pre-required packages:

sudo apt install gnupg curl

Import the public key:

curl -sS https://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/sftpgo/apt/gpg.key | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /usr/share/keyrings/sftpgo-archive-keyring.gpg

Add the SFTPGo source list:

CODENAME=`lsb_release -c -s`
echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/sftpgo-archive-keyring.gpg] https://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/sftpgo/apt ${CODENAME} main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/sftpgo.list

Install via apt:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install sftpgo

Data Provider Configuration

Before starting SFTPGo, configure and initialize the data provider.

• SQLite: created automatically at startup
• PostgreSQL / MySQL / CockroachDB: create the database first

Edit the configuration:

sudo nano /etc/sftpgo/sftpgo.json

Update the data_provider section:

"data_provider": {
    "driver": "postgresql",
    "name": "dbname",
    "host": "db.ip.address",
    "port": 0,
    "username": "username",
    "password": "password",
    "sslmode": 0,
...

Or initialize the provider manually:

sudo sftpgo initprovider

Open a browser and go to http://your.ip.address:8080. On first access, you will create the admin account.

References

• SFTPGo Documentation