Installation

Basic installation

TL;DR: Download the latest release archive and extract it in your web hosts folder were you want to install your ZeroBin instance.

Requirements

PHP version 5.2.6 or above
GD extension
mcrypt extension (recommended)
some disk space or (optional) a database supported by PDO
A web browser with javascript support

Configuration

In the file cfg/conf.ini you can configure ZeroBin. A cfg/conf.ini.sample is provided containing all options on default values. You can copy it to cfg/conf.ini and adapt it as needed. The config file is divided into multiple sections, which are enclosed in square brackets.

In the [main] section you can enable or disable the discussion feature, set the limit of stored pastes and comments in bytes. The [traffic] section lets you set a time limit in seconds. Users may not post more often then this limit to your ZeroBin installation.

More details can be found in the configuration documentation.

Advanced installation

Changing the path

In the index.php you can define a different PATH. This is useful to secure your installation. You can move the configuration, data files, templates and PHP libraries (directories cfg, data, lib, tpl, tmp and tst) outside of your document root. This new location must still be accessible to your webserver / PHP process (open_basedir setting).

PATH Example

Your zerobin installation lives in a subfolder called "paste" inside of your document root. The URL looks like this: http://example.com/paste/ The full path of ZeroBin on your webserver is: /home/example.com/htdocs/paste

When setting the path like this: define('PATH', '../../secret/zerobin/'); ZeroBin will look for your includes here: /home/example.com/secret/zerobin

Using a database instead of flat files

In the configuration file the [model] and [model_options] sections let you configure your favourite way of storing the pastes and discussions on your server.

zerobin_data is the default model, which stores everything in files in the data folder. This is the recommended setup for most sites.

Under high load, in distributed setups or if you are not allowed to store files locally, you might want to switch to the zerobin_db model. This lets you store your data in a database. Basically all databases that are supported by PDO may be used. Automatic table creation is provided for pdo_ibm, pdo_informix, pdo_mssql, pdo_mysql, pdo_oci, pdo_pgsql and pdo_sqlite. You may want to provide a table prefix, if you have to share the zerobin database with another application. The table prefix option is called tbl.

Note

The "zerobin_db" model has only been tested with SQLite and MySQL, although it would not be recommended to use SQLite in a production environment. If you gain any experience running ZeroBin on other RDBMS, please let us know.

For reference or if you want to create the table schema for yourself:

CREATE TABLE prefix_paste (
    dataid CHAR(16),
    data TEXT,
    postdate INT,
    expiredate INT,
    opendiscussion INT,
    burnafterreading INT
);

CREATE TABLE prefix_comment (
    dataid CHAR(16),
    pasteid CHAR(16),
    parentid CHAR(16),
    data TEXT,
    nickname VARCHAR(255),
    vizhash TEXT,
    postdate INT
);

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