Paste is an open-source web application for storing and sharing text. It is written in PHP and requires a web server to run. Here's a step-by-step guide on how to install Paste on the latest version of EndeavourOS.
Before you can install Paste, you need to install the following dependencies:
To install these dependencies, run the following command in your terminal:
sudo pacman -S php mariadb apache git
Next, you need to download Paste from the official GitHub repository. You can do this with git by running the following command:
git clone https://github.com/phpaste/paste.git /var/www/html/paste
This will download the latest version of Paste and place it in the /var/www/html/paste directory.
Paste requires a MySQL database to store its data. To create a new database, log in to the MySQL command-line client with the following command:
sudo mysql
Then, run the following commands to create a new database and user:
CREATE DATABASE paste;
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON paste.* TO 'pasteuser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
Replace pasteuser and password with your desired values.
Next, you need to configure Paste to use the MySQL database. Copy the file config.inc.php.sample to config.inc.php with the following command:
cd /var/www/html/paste
cp config.inc.php.sample config.inc.php
Then, edit config.inc.php with your favorite text editor and modify the following lines:
$GLOBALS['config']['paste']['database']['host'] = 'localhost';
$GLOBALS['config']['paste']['database']['port'] = 3306;
$GLOBALS['config']['paste']['database']['username'] = 'pasteuser';
$GLOBALS['config']['paste']['database']['password'] = 'password';
$GLOBALS['config']['paste']['database']['dbname'] = 'paste';
Replace pasteuser and password with the same values you used in Step 3.
Finally, you need to configure your web server to serve Paste. Here's how to do this for Apache:
Create a new virtual host file with the following command:
sudo nano /etc/httpd/conf/extra/paste.conf
Add the following content to the file:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName paste.example.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/paste
<Directory /var/www/html/paste>
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
Replace paste.example.com with your desired domain name.
Save and exit the file, then restart the Apache server with the following command:
sudo systemctl restart httpd
You're done! Visit http://paste.example.com (or whatever domain you used) in your web browser to verify that Paste is working correctly.
Congratulations, you have successfully installed Paste on EndeavourOS Latest!
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