glot-snippets provides a http api for storing and managing snippets. Snippets can be stored anonymously or as a user by including an api token with the request. CouchDB is used as the datastore. The api is described here.
The download above is a standard erlang release that includes a start script.
To start glot-snippets in the foreground type: glot/bin/glot foreground.
glot-snippets takes it's configuration from environment variables. All vars needs to be set, no default values are provided.
| Variable name | Allowed values | Example | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| API_ENVIRONMENT | development | production | production | Development mode will enable auto compiling of changed files |
| API_HTTP_LISTEN_IP | <ipv4 address> | 0.0.0.0 | Listen ip |
| API_HTTP_LISTEN_PORT | 1-65535 | 8090 | Listen port |
| LOG_PATH | <filepath> | /home/app/log/ | Path to save logs |
| BASE_URL | <url> | https://snippets.glot.io | Base url to where the api is hosted |
| ADMIN_TOKEN | <string> | some-secret | Admin token used to access the /admin endpoints |
| DB_URL | <url> | http://10.0.0.9:5984 | Url to CouchDB |
| DB_USER | <string> | glot | CouchDB user |
| DB_PASSWORD | <string> | secret-password | CouchDB password |
Users can be created with the /admin/users endpoint.
See the api docs for more details.