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First things first: getting lighttpd working rightīut first, I wanted to strip the Drobo-provided version of Apache off my Drobo FS and replace it with DroboPorts’ much slimmer port of lighttpd. However, lighttpd is perfectly happy as an upstream web server for Nginx, and with an Nginx web server already in place here at, it was time to make that puppy into a reverse proxy. DroboPorts’ release of lighttpd 1.4.29 gives you the option to do the latter, which is awesome, but I still wasn’t keen on the idea of exposing my Drobo’s tender port 443 to the Big Bad Internet. There are two ways around this-set up a reverse-proxy to the Drobo FS from a web server that does support HTTPS, or replace the Drobo-provided versions of Apache and/or lighttpd with versions that have SSL/TLS support compiled in. I could do this with WHS, but doing it with the Drobo wasn’t previously possible because there were no way to get the Drobo FS to serve encrypted pages (no openssl libraries were available for it). I’m not interested in setting up any kind of streaming server or anything like that-I just want to get to my files through a web browser when I’m not at home with some basic security so that I’m not inadvertently sharing with the world. There are certainly tons of ways to add this capability back, but the way that I wanted to do it was to share the files directly off of the Drobo and access them via HTTPS.

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The Drobo family of boxes will never be renowned for being speed demons or for having scads of free RAM or CPU to throw around on extra processes & applications like these, but there’s certainly enough capacity on board to let you run a web application or two, and this got me excited.Īs I said, I gave up the ability to easily and securely get to the files on my NAS when I’m not at home. There are a couple of web servers, an FTP daemon, an NFS daemon, an SSH daemon, and a few other things-enough to get you excited about the possibility of doing something really neat, but not enough to really do more than play around.Įnter DroboPorts, a site maintained by ambitious and skilled Drobo owner Ricardo Padilha, which offers an awesome variety of ported applications and libraries for the Drobo FS, including current versions of bash, OpenSSH, Python, PHP, lighttpd, Ruby, MySQL, and many others (along with instructions on building the aforementioned cross-compiling environment).

Drobo provides a small number of ported essential apps on their site, but the apps aren’t well-maintained or officially supported. The Drobo FS (and, indeed, most Drobo models) have the ability to run homebrew applications directly on the boxes themselves, though one barrier to simply porting a bunch of awesome utilities over and running them is that the Drobo FS runs on an ARM processor and aspiring Drobo app devs need to construct an ARM toolchain & cross-compiling environment in order to produce programs which will run.

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I gained many things coming to the Drobo FS from Windows Home Server v1, but one of the things I lost was the ability to easily and securely access the files on my NAS via the web. My reasons for going with the Drobo instead of either rolling my own with something like FreeNAS or using a faster home NAS box from Synology or QNAP are complex, but they come down to a desire for an extremely simple-to-use NAS that I can throw hard disks into without worrying about doing anything at all with the disk layout (for a lot more on why and how, check part one of my two-part Ars Technica Drobo FS review).

Some time ago, I bought a Drobo FS to use as a home NAS device.

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