Installing Hastebin on OpenBSD

Hastebin is a free, open-source tool for sharing text online. It allows you to paste code or other text snippets and share them with others. In this tutorial, we will explain how to install Hastebin on OpenBSD.

Prerequisites

Before you begin, you should have the following:

• A server running OpenBSD
• Root or sudo access to the server

Step 1: Install Node.js

The first step to installing Hastebin on OpenBSD is to install Node.js. Node.js is a JavaScript runtime that is required for running Hastebin.

To install Node.js, run the following command as root:

# pkg_add node

After the installation is complete, verify that Node.js is installed by running the following command:

node -v

You should see the version of Node.js installed on your system.

Step 2: Install Hastebin

To install Hastebin on your OpenBSD server, you can clone the GitHub repository or download the source code from the website.

Cloning the GitHub Repository

To clone the GitHub repository, run the following command:

# git clone https://github.com/seejohnrun/haste-server.git /opt/haste

Download from Website

If you prefer to download the source code from the website, go to the Hastebin download page, right-click the "Zip" button, and select "Copy link address."

Then, use the fetch command to download the source code to your server.

# cd /opt
# fetch https://github.com/seejohnrun/haste-server/archive/refs/tags/$(curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/seejohnrun/haste-server/tags | grep "name" | cut -d \" -f 4 | sort --version-sort | tail -n 1).tar.gz
# tar xzf haste-server-*.tar.gz
# mv haste-server-* haste

Step 3: Install Dependencies

To install the dependencies required by Hastebin, navigate to the haste directory and run the following command:

# cd /opt/haste
# npm install

Step 4: Configure Hastebin

Once you have installed Hastebin and its dependencies, you need to configure it.

Hastebin comes with a default configuration file called config.js. You can copy this file to config.production.json and modify it as needed.

# cp conf/config.js conf/config.production.json

Then, open config.production.json using your preferred text editor and modify the following settings:

• Set host to your server's IP address or domain name
• Set keyLength to the desired length of the paste identifier (default is 10)
• Set maxLength to the maximum allowed length of a paste (default is 400000)
• Set staticMaxAge to the maximum age (in seconds) for which static files should be cached by clients (default is 86400)

Save and close the file.

Step 5: Start Hastebin

Once you have configured Hastebin, you can start it by running the following command:

# npm start --production

Visit http://yourserverip:7777 in your browser to confirm that Hastebin is running.

Conclusion

In this tutorial, we have explained how to install Hastebin on OpenBSD. If you followed all the steps correctly, you should now have a working instance of Hastebin on your server.

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