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Create Image Server on Linux Ubuntu 23.04

Here I am using Vultr Cloud Compute with the cheapest option that has 25GB Storage. Credits to this tutorial I found in the fivem forum

Creating Sudo User​

If we are using the root user, first we can create a sudo user so we don't use the root user. I will be following this tutorial.

adduser admin

Follow the prompts, the user information is optional. Next use this command

usermod -aG sudo admin

This will give sudo permission for the admin user. Then we can exit root user and login into the new user account.

Installing Docker​

This one will be according to docker official documentation on ubuntu installation. First we should remove any possible conflicts while installing.

for pkg in docker.io docker-doc docker-compose docker-compose-v2 podman-docker containerd runc; do sudo apt-get remove $pkg; done

Then run these accordingly

# Add Docker's official GPG key:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ca-certificates curl
sudo install -m 0755 -d /etc/apt/keyrings
sudo curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg -o /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.asc
sudo chmod a+r /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.asc

# Add the repository to Apt sources:
echo \
  "deb [arch=$(dpkg --print-architecture) signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/docker.asc] https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu \
  $(. /etc/os-release && echo "$VERSION_CODENAME") stable" | \
  sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list > /dev/null
sudo apt-get update

Install

sudo apt-get install docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io docker-buildx-plugin docker-compose-plugin

You now have downloaded & installed the docker successfully

Running the image server​

Run this command

sudo docker run -d --restart always -e MAX_UPLOADS_PER_MINUTE="250" -e MAX_UPLOADS_PER_HOUR="1000" -e MAX_UPLOADS_PER_DAY="5000" -v /home/admin/screenshots:/images -p 5000:5000 hauxir/imgpush:latest

And you are good to go!

Testing to upload in FiveM​

Make a simple client script in your client side and you can use this snippet to test.

RegisterCommand('screenshot', function()
    local server =  'http://THE.IPADDRESS.OFYOUR.IMAGESERVER:5000'

    exports['screenshot-basic']:requestScreenshotUpload(server, 'file',
        { encoding = 'png', quality = 0.5 },
        function(data)
            local image = json.decode(data)
            print(data)
            local link = ('%s/%s'):format(server,image.filename)
            TriggerEvent('chat:addMessage', { template = '<img src="{0}" style="width: 50%; height: 43%;" />', args = {link} })
        end)
end)