PDFy

The PDF hosting software powering http://pdf.yt/.

Dependencies

• A PHP-capable HTTPd
• PHP
• MySQL
• ImageMagick
• php5-mysql
• php5-imagick

For the Internet Archive auto-mirror script (optional):

• Python
• The internetarchive Python module (pip install internetarchive)
• The oursql Python module (pip install internetarchive, depends on libmysqlclient being installed)
• A cron daemon

Setup

If you wish to run PDFy yourself, this is how:

1. Clone this repository - we'll assume you'll be cloning it to a folder in /var/sites, so the resulting folder would be /var/sites/pdfy.
2. Clone the CPHP repository to /var/sites - this will become /var/sites/cphp.
3. Switch the CPHP repository to the feature/formhandler branch - this is temporary until experimental CPHP features are merged into the master branch.
4. Copy config.json.example to config.json and configure the database.
5. Create a folder /var/sites/pdfy/storage and ensure that it is owned by the user and group that your PHP / HTTPd run under. This is where PDF files will be stored.
6. Assign ownership of /var/sites/pdfy/public_html/static/thumbs to that same user and group.
7. Add the relevant configuration to your HTTPd (see below).
8. Replace instances of "https://pdf.yt/" in the code (in particular in embed codes) with the host that your instance will be running at.
9. ????
10. PDFy!

HTTPd configuration

CPHP, the PHP framework used for PDFy, will handle URL rewriting. To make this work, you will need to tell your HTTPd to forward any non-existent requests to /var/sites/pdfy/public_html/rewrite.php. This is how you do that for most common HTTPds. Make sure to place this in your virtual host configuration, not your global configuration!

Apache >= 2.2.16

FallbackResource /rewrite.php

Apache < 2.2.16 (mod_rewrite required)

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^ rewrite.php [L]

lighttpd

server.error-handler-404 = "/rewrite.php"

nginx

location / {
		try_files $uri $uri/ /rewrite.php;
}

Bugs

Please include the following information (where possible) in bug reports:

• What did you expect it to do?
• What did it do instead?
• Operating System / Distribution (including version)
• Browser (if client-side bug) or HTTPd (if server-side bug)
• PDFy version (identified by commit hash, run git rev-parse HEAD on the server)
• If a client-side bug, preferably a URL to the problematic page/document.

You may also file bugs related to the PDF viewer; if necessary, these will be forwarded upstream to the pdf.js project.