I used a basic VM to get this going. You can likely do it with less. It has 2GBs of RAM, 80GBs of disk space and 2x 2.4GHz CPU cores. It was actually pretty easy to install, actually quite a bit easier then I remember.
Installing GhostBin-
Install your operating system. I used Ubuntu 18.04 Server.
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Install Go:
cd /usr/local wget https://dl.google.com/go/go1.12.8.linux-amd64.tar.gz tar -C /usr/local -xzf go1.12.8.linux-amd64.tar.gzAdd to the bottom of your
/etc/profilefile with:export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/go/binYou can either also run that at your command prompt or logout and log back in.
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Install Mercurial and Python Pygments:
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Install ansi2html:
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Install Git:
cd /usr/local/src apt install autoconf libssl-dev zlib1g-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev tcl-dev gettext wget https://github.com/git/git/archive/v2.22.1.tar.gz tar zxvf v2.22.1.tar.gz cd git-2.22.1/ make configure ./configure --prefix=/usr make -j2 make install -
I recommend creating a new user to run your GhostBin code under:
adduser ghostbin -
You should also set a password on the new user account using
passwd ghostbin. -
Login as your new user account and add the following to your
~/.bashrcfile:export GOPATH=$HOME/go -
Save and exit the file and run
source ~/.bashrc. -
Next obtain the source code for GhostBin (login as your new user first):
mkdir -p ~/go/src cd $HOME/go/src mkdir github.com cd github.com git clone https://github.com/DHowett/spectre.git cd spectre/ -
At this point your full path should be something like -
/home/ghostbin/go/src/github.com/ghostbin. -
Run
go get. -
Run
go build. -
Run
which pygmentize. It should return/usr/bin/pygmentize. If not, no problem, just copy the path. -
You'll also want to run
which ansi2htmlwhich should return/usr/local/bin/ansi2html. Again, if it doesn't no big deal, just copy the path. -
Now exit the
languages.ymlfile and update the path forpygmentizewhich should be on line 6. Also update the path foransi2htmlwhich should be on line 23. Save and exit. Here's mylanguages.ymlup to line 25 to give you an example:formatters: default: name: default func: commandFormatter args: - /usr/bin/pygmentize - "-f" - html - "-l" - "%LANG%" - "-O" - "nowrap=True,encoding=utf-8" text: name: text func: plainText markdown: name: markdown func: markdown ansi: name: ansi func: commandFormatter args: - /usr/local/bin/ansi2html - "--naked" iphonesyslog: -
Next we'll need to build a CSS file which will give color to the pastes:
pygmentize -f html -S $STYLE > public/css/theme-pygments.cssYou can choose from several styles/color themes:
- monokai - manni - rrt - perldoc - borland - colorful - default - murphy - vs - trac - tango - fruity - autumn - bw - emacs - vim - pastie - friendly - nativeI used monokai:
pygmentize -f html -S monokai > public/css/theme-pygments.css -
If all went well all that is left to do is to start the service:
./spectre -
Here's an screenshot of my install: 
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I would also recommend running the binary with the --help flag:
$ ./spectre --help Usage of ./spectre: -addr string bind address and port (default "0.0.0.0:8080") -alsologtostderr log to standard error as well as files -log_backtrace_at value when logging hits line file:N, emit a stack trace -log_dir string If non-empty, write log files in this directory -logtostderr log to standard error instead of files -rebuild rebuild all templates for each request -root string path to generated file storage (default "./") -stderrthreshold value logs at or above this threshold go to stderr -v value log level for V logs -vmodule value comma-separated list of pattern=N settings for file-filtered loggingThis allows you to see flags you can run with the binary. I run mine as such:
./spectre -logtostderrThis will just log the errors to the screen.
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Install Nginx:
apt install nginx -
Create a Nginx configuration file for GhostBin:
nano /etc/nginx/sites-available/ghostbin.conf# Upstream configuration upstream ghostbin_upstream { server 0.0.0.0:8080; keepalive 64; } # Public server { listen 80; server_name ghostbin.YOURDOMAIN.com; # domain of my site location / { proxy_http_version 1.1; proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr; proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for; proxy_set_header X-NginX-Proxy true; proxy_set_header Host $http_host; proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade; proxy_redirect off; proxy_pass http://ghostbin_upstream; } }You'll obviously want to update the
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Next we need to make a symlink so Nginx knows to load the configuration:
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Restart the Nginx service:
systemctl restart nginxYour GhostBin site should now be available at http://ghostbin.YOURDOMAIN.com!
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Whenever I start up the binary I see:
E0815 21:19:58.915843 19895 main.go:773] Expirator Error: open expiry.gob: no such file or directoryThis doesn't appear to be an issue and I haven't had any issues with using GhostBin thus far. There seems to be some code in main.go referencing it. It looks related to the expiration of the paste, but I don't know GoLang so I can't be sure.
pasteExpirator = gotimeout.NewExpirator(filepath.Join(arguments.root, "expiry.gob"), &ExpiringPasteStore{pasteStore}) -
It looks like the GhostBin repository has been renamed to 'spectre'. It looks like this was done to "de-brand" it for people who want to run it themselves and separate it from GhostBin.com where I believe the developer run their own copy. See this commit.
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You should definitely set up your install with Let's Encrypt for SSL.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://jimmyb.ninja/post/1565901741
