Whitespace

A self-hosted pastebin built with Flask. Supports syntax highlighting, file attachments, password-protected pastes, expiry options, and an admin panel. Live demo at https://p.wenberg.net.

Features

• Syntax highlighting with auto-language detection
• Optional password protection with AES-256-GCM encryption at rest
• Expiry options: burn after read, 1h, 1d, 1w, or never
• File attachments (number of attachments is configurable)
• Fork pastes to create an editable copy
• Full-text search
• Admin panel - manage pastes, ban IPs, toggle maintenance mode
• Rate-limiting options

Deployment

• Docker
• Standalone

Quick start (Docker)

No clone needed - the image is published to git.wenberg.net/redeuxx/whitespace.

mkdir whitespace && cd whitespace/

cat > docker-compose.yml <<'EOF'
services:
  web:
    image: git.wenberg.net/redeuxx/whitespace:latest
    ports:
      - "8118:8118"
    volumes:
      - uploads_data:/app/uploads
      - db_data:/app/instance
      - ./.env:/app/.env:ro
    restart: unless-stopped

volumes:
  uploads_data:
  db_data:
EOF

# set SECRET_KEY, ADMIN_USERNAME, ADMIN_PASSWORD
curl -o .env https://git.wenberg.net/redeuxx/whitespace/raw/branch/main/.env.example

docker compose up -d

App runs at http://localhost:8118, admin at /admin. This app is meant to be run behind a reverse proxy that provides SSL.

See .env.example for all configuration options (file upload limits, rate limits, pagination, database URL).

Updating (Docker)

cd whitespace/
docker compose pull
docker compose up -d