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diff --git a/paste/INSTALL b/paste/INSTALL new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ce8412b --- /dev/null +++ b/paste/INSTALL @@ -0,0 +1,35 @@ +INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS + +Making your own Pastebin + +================================ + +Files: + +index.html - Presents the HTML form for pasting text. +paste.php - Form handler that drives the rest of the process. +include/highlight.inc - Syntax highlighting routines. +include/pastify.inc - Takes syntax highlighted text and turns it into + HTML to be served when the paste is viewed. +include/createpage.inc - Handles writing the HTML page to disk and + returning the resulting file path. + +================================ + +Set up this directory structure more or less the way it comes out of +source control. + +Update the config.php file to reflect your server and setup. + +You may also want to make sure your web server has permissions to +write files into the results output directory (which is results/ by +default) + +It is also a good idea to implement some sort of upload rate throttling. +This can be done by keeping track of pastes per IP address and shedding +load if it passes a certain threshold. + +Additionally, if you wish pastes to expire after a given amount of time, +you will need to write a housekeeping script or cron job that periodically +cleans out expired pastes. + |