Mounting your Neocities file system on Linux

Setup

Download the rclone package from your package manager.

For instance, I have arch and I use paru for my aur-helper, so I just used: paru rclone

Rclone Config

Simply type rclone config into your terminal, and follow the steps for a webdav server.

For me, this was simple:


          rclone config
          (n) New Remote
          name>neocities
          Storage>55 / WebDav
          url>http://neocities.org/webdav
          vendor>rclone
          user>xionical
          pass>ENTERPASSWORDHERE

Then I put defaults for the rest!

Whenever you want to mount the drive you can enter the following into a terminal:

rclone mount neocities: ~/PATH_TO_DIRECTORY

Automatic

"What if I don't want to run this command EVERY time I want to mount the drive?"

It is simple enough to make your own systemd service file.

This sounds daunting, however it is quite simple.

In your favorite text editor (Mine is currently Helix), create a file /etc/systemd/system/rclone-neocities.service

(You might need some elevated permissions to do so. When using nvim, you may use

sudo -E nvim
        *PATH*

to keep your config.)


        [Unit]
        Description=Neocities Drive Mount
        After=network-online.target
        wants=network-online.target

        [Service]
        Type=simple
        ExecStart=/usr/bin/rclone mount neocities: /home/*YOUR_USERNAME*/NeoCities
        Restart=on-failures
        User=xionical

        [Install]
        WantedBy=multi-user.target

This is great and all, but systemd doesnt actually know about this service you want to add.

You need to tell systemd to start this service, but not only that. You want to enable this service every boot in the future.

Make sure you unmount the drive before starting the service, as it will attempt to mount to the same point

sudo systemctl enable --now rclone-neocities.service will start the service and enable it for every boot.

To stop this from happening every boot, you can do

sudo systemctl disable --now
        rclone-neocities.service

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