Self hosted image/screenshot sharing application written with Laravel
Pxl.lt's open source clone. Made in Laravel, in which I currently do not have experience. Please feel free to join the project and contribute to it. The sooner you would like to see this project up and running on your own site, the sooner you should help us out and contribute! Currently I am working on this by myself, in my spare time.
If you plan on helping out, please do get in touch so I can set up a Trello board to plan some kind of roadmap.
I do plan on keeping the core functionality of the previous Pxl.lt, as that is what made it stand out. Task list, not in particular order:
I would love to see people help out! So, if you were doubting about forking it or even submitting a pull request or suggestion, please go ahead! If you, just like me, have few to none knowledge about Laravel, the PHP framework this project uses, then please do read their documentation. I constantly check the docs, because the framework is full of interesting and useful but maybe even confusing functionality! If you can't figure out how to set it up on your development machine (I do not run a local development server, but instead use a VPS for it), please consult Laravel's docs as well. It should be similar to the small guide below.
git
, then use this instead. Clone this repo in the location.php composer install
in Pxl's directory (Unless your composer
file is named composer.phar
, then it's php composer.phar install
)env.example
to .env
and editing the environment configuration.php artisan key:generate
to automatically generate a secure key that will be put into .env
(should be the one where this readme is located)..env
variables, MySQL database and user, and directory permissions, Pxl should work.
If you get error 500, it might be possible that you haven't set up the tables yet. Do so by executing php artisan migrate
.php artisan up
and php artisan down
you may toggle maintenance mode.php artisan migrate
and clean it by using php artisan migrate:reset
Warning! This will most likely clear your database. Don't execute this on your PRODUCTION machine.* * * * * php /path-to-pxl/artisan schedule:run >> /dev/null 2>&1
.php artisan pxl:setup
.
It is important that you change the username, password and email address of this account immediately.It's built on top of Laravel, so please do read their (quickstart) documentation, on setting up the project on your development machine. (Hint: It also involves composer.)
My wholehearted apologies for everyone who used pxl and enjoyed it for their own domain or just as is. I'm really sorry about making the decision to shut the project down, but it was for the best. After a long night I have decided to reboot the project - not as you would expect it. I'm not going to host anything, but instead I'll do my best to recreate the concept of pxl, fully open sourced on Github.
Many requested the source or offered to buy it, but I didn't want to. Not because I wanted it strictly private or thought it was worth more, but because the code was just unusable in other situations. This project will allow me to build it to be easily understood. Maybe some people would even care to contribute if they see something odd.
Context: Pxl.lt was compromised in terms of security and the service was shut down.