In this tutorial, we will learn how to install Paste on Ubuntu Server. Paste is a lightweight, simple and secure open-source web application that lets you share text snippets online. It’s written in PHP and uses a MySQL database for storage.
Before we begin, you’ll need the following:
The first step is to download Paste. You can do this by visiting the Paste website. Once there, click on the “Download” button and save the file to your computer.
Alternatively, you can download the file using the command below:
wget https://github.com/fijiwebdesign/Paste/archive/master.zip
Now that we’ve downloaded the Paste file, we need to uncompress it. We can do this using the unzip command. If unzip is not already installed on your system, you can install it using the following command:
sudo apt-get install unzip
Once unzip is installed, run the command below to extract the downloaded file:
unzip master.zip
Before we can install Paste, we need to create a MySQL database. We can do this by running the following commands:
sudo mysql
CREATE DATABASE pastedb;
CREATE USER 'pasteadm'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON pastedb.* TO 'pasteadm'@'localhost';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
EXIT;
Make sure to replace the password with a secure password of your choice.
Now that the database is set up, we need to create a config.php file for the Paste application. We can do this by copying the config.php.sample file that was extracted in Step 2 and renaming it to config.php.
cd Paste-master
cp config.php.sample config.php
Then, open the config.php file in your favorite text editor and modify the DB_* values to match the MySQL user credentials you created in Step 3:
nano config.php
define('DB_HOST', 'localhost');
define('DB_USER', 'pasteadm');
define('DB_PASS', 'password');
define('DB_NAME', 'pastedb');
Now that we’ve taken care of the prerequisites and set up the database and config file, we can install Paste. To do so, copy the files in the Paste-master directory to your web root directory.
sudo cp -r pastemaster/ /var/www/html/paste
Make sure that your web server can read the files by setting the correct permissions:
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/paste
sudo chmod -R 755 /var/www/html/paste
Paste has now been installed on your Ubuntu Server. To ensure everything is set up correctly, open a web browser on your computer and navigate to http://your_server_IP_Address/paste. You should see the Paste homepage.
Congratulations, you’ve successfully installed Paste on your Ubuntu Server!
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