February 10, 2016 / 11:26 PM
Introducing Modern Paste: a Contemporary, Open-Source Pastebin Alternative
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I'm excited to launch Modern Paste, a contemporary, feature-rich, and most importantly, open-sourcePastebin alternative. Modern Paste is intended for system administrators with Apache servers who wish to self-host their own private installation of a code/text Pastebin. Modern Paste is flexible and highly configurable--it's suitable as both a large-scale, public-facing service and a minimal code-sharing frontend for a private installation.
Live demo
Features
- Modern user interface with a consistent design language
- Syntax highlighting for all languages supported by CodeMirror
- Ability to set paste expiration dates
- Ability to password-protect pastes
- Full user account functionality + Associate new pastes with a user account + View, modify, or delete pastes posted with a user account + Directly query the Modern Paste API with the account's API key/authtoken
- Public archive of pastes, sorted reverse chronologically or by popularity
- RESTful API for externally creating, reading, and managing pastes
- Ability to enforce security restrictions: can configure that only authenticated users can post pastes (ideal for private, non-public-facing installations)
- Ability to encrypt the front-facing-display of paste IDs (e.g. so that /paste/1 might display as /paste/9~AEygplxfCPHW4eJctbjMnRi-rYnlYzizqToCmG3BY=)
Download
Browse the full repository on GitHub
Please consult the full installation instructionsto deploy Modern Paste on your server. In summary, you'll need to:
- Clone the source and install necessary dependencies (this is scripted via the Makefile)
- Set up the MySQL database and user
- Customize the configuration file
- Build the app (initializes the database and compiles static CSS and JS files)
- Add an Apache virtual host entry
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