regenwolken 0.5.2

Quickstart

Short instructions for OS X, adapt these commands to your linux distribution of choice (Debian Squeeze!).

$ brew install mongodb
$ mongod --dbpath foo/ &

Now install regenwolken and its dependencies:

$ easy_install regenwolken
$ easy_install pygments PIL markdown  # optional

Modify /etc/hosts, launch regenwolken and register a new account

$ sudo echo "127.0.0.1 my.cl.ly" >> /etc/hosts
$ regenwolken &
[... open Cloud.app or another client and register a new account]
$ rwctl activate USERNAME

You can change that behavior to instantly activate new users. See the configuration part below.

How to use regenwolken

As an alternative CloudApp-server, you have to edit their DNS my.cl.ly to point to your own IP. This will not interfere with CloudApp Service itself, because they are using cl.ly and f.c.ly for sharing.

$ sudo echo "12.34.56.78 my.cl.ly" >> /etc/hosts

Note: you should set a hostname (= your domain) in regenwolken.cfg. This will return into customized URLs, pointing directly to your host, so others don’t need to modify their hosts.

Setup and Configuration

See DEPLOYMENT.md and CONFIG.rst for details.

API implementation

regenwolken provides all API calls to get Cloud.app working and has only few calls of CloudApp’s API missing. See API.md for a complete list of features. Below, the following are currently covered by the web interface.

# -H "Accept: text/html"

/                          - GET basic web interface
/items/<short_id>          - GET file or redirect from bookmark
/items/<short_id>/filename - GET same as /items/<short_id>
/<short_id>                - GET viso-like file view or redirect from bookmark
/thumb/<short_id>          - GET thumbnail of item

Thanks to cmur2 for his feature-rich CLI (with HTTPS support!) and help to build this service!

Clients

If you are working on a API or Client for CloudApp, please consider a configurable service url. That makes the hosts file hack unnecessary and as a side effect you can use HTTPS for all connections (feature is still in master).

Links:

• rixth/raincloud – a (full?) cloud implementation written in node.js

• short description in my blog