pasty

Pasty is a fast and lightweight code pasting server

General environment variables

Environment Variable	Default Value	Type	Description
PASTY_WEB_ADDRESS	:8080	string	Defines the address the web server listens to
PASTY_STORAGE_TYPE	file	string	Defines the storage type the pastes are saved to
PASTY_HASTEBIN_SUPPORT	false	bool	Defines whether or not the POST /documents endpoint should be enabled, as known from the hastebin servers
PASTY_ID_LENGTH	6	number	Defines the length of the ID of a paste
PASTY_DELETION_TOKEN_LENGTH	12	number	Defines the length of the deletion token of a paste
PASTY_RATE_LIMIT	30-M	string	Defines the rate limit of the API (see https://github.com/ulule/limiter#usage)

AutoDelete

Pasty provides an intuitive system to automatically delete pastes after a specific amount of time. You can configure it with the following variables:

Environment Variable	Default Value	Type	Description
PASTY_AUTODELETE	false	bool	Defines whether or not the AutoDelete system should be enabled
PASTY_AUTODELETE_LIFETIME	720h	string	Defines the duration a paste should live until it gets deleted
PASTY_AUTODELETE_TASK_INTERVAL	5m	string	Defines the interval in which the AutoDelete task should clean up the database

Storage types

Pasty supports multiple storage types, defined using the PASTY_STORAGE_TYPE environment variable (use the value behind the corresponding title in this README). Every single one of them has its own configuration variables:

File (file)

Environment Variable	Default Value	Type	Description
PASTY_STORAGE_FILE_PATH	./data	string	Defines the file path the paste files are being saved to

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S3 (s3)

Environment Variable	Default Value	Type	Description
PASTY_STORAGE_S3_ENDPOINT	<empty>	string	Defines the S3 endpoint to connect to
PASTY_STORAGE_S3_ACCESS_KEY_ID	<empty>	string	Defines the access key ID to use for the S3 storage
PASTY_STORAGE_S3_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY	<empty>	string	Defines the secret acces key to use for the S3 storage
PASTY_STORAGE_S3_SECRET_TOKEN	<empty>	string	Defines the session token to use for the S3 storage (may be left empty in the most cases)
PASTY_STORAGE_S3_SECURE	true	bool	Defines whether or not SSL should be used for the S3 connection
PASTY_STORAGE_S3_REGION	<empty>	string	Defines the region of the S3 storage
PASTY_STORAGE_S3_BUCKET	pasty	string	Defines the name of the S3 bucket (has to be created before setup)

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MongoDB (mongodb)

Environment Variable	Default Value	Type	Description
PASTY_STORAGE_MONGODB_CONNECTION_STRING	mongodb://pasty:pasty@example.host/pasty	string	Defines the connection string to use for the MongoDB connection
PASTY_STORAGE_MONGODB_DATABASE	pasty	string	Defines the name of the database to use
PASTY_STORAGE_MONGODB_COLLECTION	pastes	string	Defines the name of the collection to use

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SQL (sql)

Environment Variable	Default Value	Type	Description
PASTY_STORAGE_SQL_DRIVER	sqlite3	string	Defines the driver to use for the SQL connection (sqlite3, postgres or mysql)
PASTY_STORAGE_SQL_DSN	./db	string	Defines the DSN to use for the SQL connection
PASTY_STORAGE_SQL_TABLE	pasty	string	Defines the table name to use for the SQL connection