Guided Installation Setup

Guided Installation

This page will help beginners to install and run myDrive, in this guide we will run myDrive on a local machine, view the other guides to get myDrive running on Docker, or on a Droplet.

1. Installing Node.js

Users will first need to install Node.js, this is used to run myDrive, as well as install all of its dependencies. MyDrive works best with Node.js 13+, so I recommend using the latest version instead of the LTS.

Node.js Download

2. Installing MongoDB

Users will also need to install MongoDB unless you're using some type of service like Atlas or DocumentDB, MongoDB is used to store all the user, and file metadata information.

MongoDB Download

MongoDB Installation/Setup Guide

3. Downloading myDrive

Next, Download myDrive from the main Github page, the easiest way to do this is to select 'Download Zip' from the 'Clone and Download' section. But you can also clone myDrive with the following command.

git clone https://github.com/subnub/myDrive.git

4. Setup myDrive

Next unzip the file, you should now have the following files, after this open up a terminal in the myDrive directory.