PurritoBin is a lightweight and privacy-respecting pastebin that you can self-host on your own server. This tutorial will guide you through the process of installing PurritoBin on OpenBSD.
Before installing PurritoBin, you need to make sure that your OpenBSD server has the required dependencies installed. To do so, run the following command:
$ sudo pkg_add go rsync tor
This command will install the Go programming language, rsync for syncing files and Tor for optional use with PurritoBin. If you have already installed these dependencies, you can skip this step.
To install PurritoBin on your OpenBSD server, you will need to clone the PurritoBin repository from GitHub. Run the following command to clone the repository:
$ git clone https://github.com/PurritoBin/PurritoBin.git
This command will clone the PurritoBin repository into a new directory named PurritoBin in the current directory.
Now that you have cloned the PurritoBin repository, it's time to build it. Navigate into the PurritoBin directory and run the following command:
$ cd PurritoBin
$ go build
This command will compile the PurritoBin source code into an executable binary file named PurritoBin.
Before you can run PurritoBin, you need to configure it. PurritoBin comes with a configuration file named config.yaml.example in the root of the PurritoBin directory. Copy the example configuration file to a new file named config.yaml with the following command:
$ cp config.yaml.example config.yaml
Open the config.yaml file in your text editor and modify the settings as needed. The most important settings to configure are the following:
web.listen: the IP address and port on which PurritoBin will listen for incoming HTTP connections (default is 0.0.0.0:6060)storage.file.path: the directory path where PurritoBin will store the uploaded pastes (default is /var/db/purritobin)Save the config.yaml file when you have finished configuring PurritoBin.
Now that you have built and configured PurritoBin, it's time to run it. To start PurritoBin, run the following command from the PurritoBin directory:
$ ./PurritoBin
This command will start PurritoBin and listen for incoming HTTP connections on the IP address and port that you specified in the config.yaml file.
In this tutorial, you learned how to install PurritoBin on OpenBSD. You cloned the PurritoBin repository, built PurritoBin, configured it, and started it. Now you can use your own PurritoBin instance as a lightweight and privacy-respecting pastebin on your own server.
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