Haste

A walk through of installing haste as an open source federated pastebin.com alternative.

See the project at hastebin.com

I ran into project this while following John Kulp’s notes on his blather intro.

Installing node.js

Installing via a package manager. See nodejs website for most up-to-date information. Commands given below are just for reference.

RedHat based systems

curl --silent --location https://rpm.nodesource.com/setup | sudo bash -

sudo yum install -y nodejs

Debian based systems

curl --silent --location https://deb.nodesource.com/setup | sudo bash -

sudo apt-get install -y nodejs

Upgrade npm

npm install npm -g

haste-server

Take a look at the haste-server project on github

Clone haste-server git repository

git clone https://github.com/seejohnrun/haste-server.git

cd haste-server

Choose storage method

Choices

file system

redis

memcached

If you will be using the file system storage method, delete storage section in config.js using your favorite text editor.

Install

npm install

npm start &

Use server

You can now browse to your new haste-server at the server name or ip at port 7777. Follow the icon links on the page for usage.

http://<servername>:7777

Using shell to add content

Create a bash alias to pipe files to the haste file server.

Add the following to your .bashrc file:

HASTE_SERVER='http://myserver:7777'

haste() { a=$(cat); curl -X POST -s -d "$a" $HASTE_SERVER/documents | awk -v server="$HASTE_SERVER" -F '"' '{print server"/"$4}'; }

References

hastebin.com

nodejs

haste-server

haste-client

haste-client-bash