Deployment

Last modified: 14 марта 2025

Currently, sockdrive reporistory has only one active deployment, is sockdrive.js-dos.com:8001. Geographically it is located in Europe, because of that speed can vary between regions.

We are looking forward to maintainers from other regions. If you want to create a sockdrive mirror, please let me know.

New deployment

You are also able to create your own sockdrive server with own drives, and run it locally or globally.

sockdrive server should work fine on any linux distribution like Ubuntu. Download the server and unpack it somewhere.

Folder structure:

- backend         // sockdrive server executable
- cli             // sockdrive cli interface
- config/         // configuration directory
  - props.json    // configuration file
  - drives/       // drive storage
  - templates/    // drive templates

included templates:

  • fat16-256m — empty 256Mb drive formatted in fat16

  • fat32-2gb — empty 2Gb drive formatted in fat32

included drives (./cli list system):

owner

name

description

system

fat16-256m

Blank drive based on corresponding template

system

fat32-2gb

Blank drive based on corresponding template

system

test

Test drive used in backend unit tests

system

dos7.1-v1

DOS 7.1 with CDROM support

system

win95-v1

Minimal (256Mb) Windows 95 installation

system

win95-v2

Windows 95 (2Gb) with daemon tools

system

win98-v1

Windows 98 (2Gb) with daemon tools

configuration file properties (config/props.json):

property

description

default value

cert

path to ssl certificate file for wss:// support

js-dos.com certificate

key

path to ssl certificate key file for wss:// support

js-dos.com certificate

port

server port to use

8001

templates

path to folder with templates

./config/templates

drivers

path to folder with drives

./config/drives

premium

list of emails that have full access to sockdrive even if this emails does not have js-dos subscription

dos.zone, caiiiycuk@gmail.com

tip

you can leave cert and key empty string, then server will work in ws:// mode

To start the server run backend executable:

./backend

At the beginning server will print configuration used and information about port used, like this:

2024-06-28T03:26:21.456339Z  INFO backend: started non-secured server on 0.0.0.0:8001

Now you can use it with js-dos player, just add your server as sockdrive endpoint:

Dos(document.getElementById("dos"), {
    sockdriveBackend: {
        name: "custom",
        host: "localhost:8001",
    },
});

warning

Users that have js-dos subscription will be able to write and create new drives on your server, moreover, users that listed in config will also be able to write and create drives even without subscription. Be careful sockdrive server can consume a lot of disk space.

Open file limits

You should increase the limit of open files, edit /etc/security/limits.conf add the following lines:

* soft nofile 1000000
* hard nofile 1000000

And restart PC.

Cli commands

Command

Description

create (owner) (name) (template)

Creates new drive owner/name from template

./cli create me empty fat16-256m

Will create me/empty drive based on fat16-256m template

fork (owner) (name) (fork_owner) (fork_name)

Create new drive from existent one

./cli fork system win95-v1 me mywin

Will create me/mywin from system/win95-v1

list (owner)

List all drives of owner + system drives

./cli list me

Will list all drives of me

delete (owner) (name)

Delete specified drive

./cli delete me mywin

Will delete drive my/mywin

warning

be careful with delete command dependent drives will stop working correctly