Wastebin is a simple self-hosted pastebin web application that allows users to paste and share code snippets, text, and other types of content. In this tutorial, we will learn how to install Wastebin on OpenBSD.
Before we begin, ensure that you have the following in place:
Perform the following step-by-step instructions to install Wastebin on OpenBSD:
To install Wastebin on OpenBSD, we first have to clone the Git repository from https://github.com/matze/wastebin. You need to open a terminal on your OpenBSD system and run:
sudo pkg_add -U git
git clone https://github.com/matze/wastebin.git
This command will install Git if it's not already installed and then download the source code for Wastebin.
Next, we will copy the files to our web server directory and configure Wastebin.
cd wastebin
cp config.example.php config.php
cp htaccess.example .htaccess
Then, edit the config.php with the following command to configure the app:
vim config.php
Inside, update the following settings according to your environment:
define('BASE_URL', 'http://localhost/wastebin/'); // Base URL where the app is installed.
define('DEBUG_MODE', false); // Set to true to display errors.
define('DB_DSN', 'sqlite:/path/to/your/directory/wastebin.sqlite'); // Path to your SQLite database file.
define('SESSION_FILEPATH', '/path/to/your/directory/session'); // Path to your session directory.
Update the .htaccess file with the following command:
vim .htaccess
You should change /wastebin/ to your app URL base path, if it's not located in the root directory:
# RewriteBase /wastebin/
In this step, we will set the proper file permissions for Wastebin's files and directories:
touch wastebin.sqlite
chmod 666 wastebin.sqlite
chmod 777 -R ./upload
chmod 777 -R ./tmp
chmod 777 -R ./session
We have given permissions 666 to wastebin.sqlite to enable read and write access for owner and other users. We have also added write permissions to the upload, tmp, and session directories using the chmod command.
Finally, we need to enable the pdo_sqlite and curl extensions in our PHP INI file.
sudo vim /etc/php-7.4.ini
Add the following lines at the end of the file:
extension=pdo_sqlite.so
extension=curl.so
After completing all the above steps, restart your web server:
sudo /etc/rc.d/nginx restart
That's it! You have successfully installed Wastebin on OpenBSD. Now, you can use it to store and share code snippets and text.
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