How to Install Prologic Pastebin on Fedora Server Latest

In this tutorial, we will guide you through the steps of installing Prologic Pastebin on Fedora Server Latest.

Prologic Pastebin is an open-source, self-hosted service that allows users to share text and code snippets easily. It offers features such as syntax highlighting, password protection, and expiration date for your snippets.

Prerequisites

• A VPS or a local machine running Fedora Server latest.
• A non-root user with sudo privileges.

Step 1: Updating the system

Before starting the installation process, it's essential to update your system:

sudo dnf update

Step 2: Installing Dependencies

Prologic Pastebin requires Python3 to run on your system. Therefore, we will install it alongside some other essential dependencies:

sudo dnf install python3 python3-pip git nginx gcc -y

Step 3: Installing Prologic Pastebin

First, clone the source code of Prologic Pastebin to your home directory:

cd ~
git clone https://git.mills.io/prologic/pastebin.git

Next, move to the root of the pastebin directory and install required Python packages via pip:

cd pastebin
pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Step 4: Configuration

The next step is setting up the configurations.

cp .env.example .env

You can now edit the .env file.

nano .env

Specify your PostgreSQL database credentials and other configurations as follows.

PGHOST=localhost
PGDATABASE=pastebin
PGUSER=pastebinuser
PGPASSWORD=YourPasswordHere
DEBUG=False
HASHIDS_SALT=SomeHashHere
DOMAIN=https://your_website.com
SITE_NAME=YourSiteName
ADMINS=admin@example.com
MAIL_FROM=Pastebin <noreply@example.com>
SMTP_SERVER=YourSMTPServerAddress
SMTP_PORT=YourSMTPServerPort
SMTP_USE_TLS=True
SMTP_USERNAME=YourSMTPServerUsername
SMTP_PASSWORD=YourSMTPServerPassword
DEFAULT_LANGUAGE=en

Step 5: Initialize the database

Pastebin uses PostgreSQL as its backend database. Create a user and database matching the credentials specified in the .env file:

sudo su - postgres
createuser -P pastebinuser
createdb -O pastebinuser pastebin
exit

Once you have set up the database, you can migrate the tables and populate initial data.

./manage.py migrate
./manage.py loaddata fixtures/*

Step 6: Configuring Nginx

Create a new Nginx configuration file (/etc/nginx/sites-available/pastebin.conf):

sudo nano /etc/nginx/sites-available/pastebin.conf

Add the following to the configuration file.

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name your_website.com;
    return 301 https://$server_name$request_uri;
}

server {
    listen 443 ssl;
    server_name your_website.com;

    ssl_certificate /path/to/ssl/certificate.crt;
    ssl_certificate_key /path/to/ssl/certificate.key;
    ssl_protocols TLSv1.2 TLSv1.3;
    ssl_ciphers HIGH:!aNULL:!MD5;

    client_max_body_size 50M;

    access_log /var/log/nginx/pastebin.access.log;
    error_log /var/log/nginx/pastebin.error.log;

    location / {
        proxy_pass http://localhost:8000;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $remote_addr;
        proxy_set_header Host $host;
        proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
    }
}

To enable the Nginx configuration, create a symbolic link with the sites-enabled directory.

sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/pastebin.conf /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/

Restart Nginx.

sudo systemctl restart nginx

Step 7: Running the Application

You can now start the Prologic Pastebin application with the following command:

./manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000

Prologic Pastebin will now be available at your configured domain name.

Conclusion

Congratulations! You have successfully installed and configured Prologic Pastebin on Fedora Server Latest. You may now use this self-hosted service to share code snippets and text with ease.

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