minidlna-web provides a web frontend to the SQlite database that minidlna builds for itself. It allows you to use a web browser to explore the media that minidlna is hosting, and it offers downloads links that fetch the media directly from the minildna service.

minidlna-web should be:

1. A single binary file for ease of deployment (including all web assets)
2. Very light and fast (so it can run on the sort of small machines minidlna itself can)
3. Read-only
4. Minimal 3rd party dependencies. Currently only pulls in modernc.org/sqlite
5. Minimally configurable

$ ./minidlna-web --help
Usage of ./minidlna-web:
  -base-url string
        Base URL of the minidlna /MediaItems/ path, e.g. http://hostname:8200/MediaItems/
  -db-file string
        Path of the minidlna sqlite file, e.g. /var/cache/minidlna/files.db
  -listen-addr string
        Address on which to listen
  -listen-port int
        TCP port on which to listen (default 3333)

1. Git clone the repo: git clone https://github.com/mordyovits/minidlna-web.git
2. In the repo top directory, run go build
3. Run the resulting binary with the required cmdline args, e.g.: ./minidlna-web -base-url http://192.168.1.XXX:8200/MediaItems/ -db-file /var/cache/minidlna/files.db
4. Access minidlna-web with a web browser (defaults to port 3333)

Note: If you want minidlna-web to read the main sqlite database file that minidlna built and is maintaining then you will probably need to run minidlna as the minidlna role user account (usually minidlna).

• Add search functionality
• Add tree view of Objects
• Add full path with clickable components in header breadcrumbs
• Deal with caching headers (version the static assets?)
• Use template inheritance to DRY
• Add FastCGI support so it can run under a web server (which can provide TLS, authentication, and authorization)
• Improve the HTML and web design, which is very crude
• Add systemd unit file
• Add RPM build (spec) and DPKG build files
• Support multiple languages

I would most appreciate help with the web design aspects. The project is set up to be pretty easy to contribute that work to: the HTML is in templates/ and the static assets are in static/.