Flying Paste

What's this

Flying Paste is a Nopaste application based on Python featuring syntax highlighting and full database storage (no write access to any file required).

Requirements

• Python 3
• bottle
• Pygments
• Python-MySQL
• a running MySQL server

Installation

• Get the latest code from github with:

  git clone https://github.com/malte70/flyingpaste

• Optional: create a special database user for the application
• Create a table using the following SQL statement:

  CREATE TABLE pastes (
  	id VARCHAR(20) NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY,
  	title VARCHAR(200) DEFAULT "Untitled",
  	description TEXT DEFAULT NULL,
  	author_name VARCHAR(50) DEFAULT "Anonymous",
  	author_email VARCHAR(50) DEFAULT NULL,
  	code TEXT NOT NULL,
  	language VARCHAR(20) DEFAULT "text",
  	privacy VARCHAR(20) DEFAULT "public",
    date_added datetime NOT NULL DEFAULT current_timestamp()
  ) DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8mb4 COLLATE=utf8mb4_general_ci;

• Generate a configuration using the configure script:

  cd flyingpaste
  ./configure

Running

Run directly in testing mode

Simply execute flyingpaste.py from the command line:

cd /path/to/flyingpaste
python flyingpaste.py

Run using Apache's mod_wsgi

A sample configuration is included in the source as doc/apache-example.conf. Modify it for your needs, activate mod_wsgi and restart your Apache server. You're done!

Homepage and source code repository

Available on github: https://github.com/malte70/flyingpaste No website at the moment (there will be one later)

Licensing

Flying Paste is free/libre software released under the MIT license, which can be found in the file LICENSE.

Submitting bugs/feature requests

If you have found a bug or like to see a specific feature, open an issue on github (https://github.com/malte70/flyingpaste/issues/new) or leave me an EMail (see "Contacting the author").