OborPaste, a simple pastebin you can run on any server with Apache and PHP.

Installation

Rename _htaccess to .htaccess. Replace the placeholder URLs and file paths in .htaccess, textfiles.html, and textfiles.php to appropriate values; replace the placeholder API key in textfiles.php with an arbitrary key of your choice (this can be any string you like, but don’t share it with anyone). Put everything in /textfiles/ (where / is your web root).

Usage

Post textfiles by sending a POST request to /textfiles/textfiles.php, with two parameters: f (whose value should be the contents of the textfile) and p (whose value should be the API key you’ve defined in textfiles.php).

The response to the POST request will contain the URL of the newly-created paste. You can append /raw to that URL to view the raw text of the paste.

Setting up a mechanism for posting pastes is currently left as an exercise for the reader. (There are many ways to do this: one could have a simple shell script that takes text from stdin and uses curl to issue a POST request to the script URL; one could put together something like a Cocoa Service with Apple’s Automator, to allow posting text from any application as a paste; one could even have some sort of web form—backed by another PHP script, running on the same server—to allow posting of pastes from the web. Note that if you opt for the last option, you should take care to secure the posting form somehow, lest your pastebin server be flooded by all manner of junk…)

Notes

You can, of course, change the path from /textfiles/ to anything else, modifying the scripts, config files, etc. in the obvious manner.

Font Awesome is required for the action icons on paste pages. A free version may be found at https://fontawesome.com/ (they even provide a CDN, so you don’t have to host it yourself).

Probably OborPaste can be adapted to work with a webserver other than Apache (as long as it has an equivalent of mod_php), but you’d have to replicate the configuration defined in the .htaccess file in whatever form of config file that’s appropriate to your webserver of choice.

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