A very simple journal website that allows you to create journal entries that are encrypted with your public PGP key before being stored in the database, for utmost privacy.
Once you create a new account you will have to click the "Edit user data" link to add your Public PGP key.
When you wish to view a saved journal entry you will have to paste your private key along with your passphrase before clicking "decrypt".
All PGP commands are executed in the browser using the kbpgp.js library from keybase.io
The website code is based (heavily based) on the php-login-advanced project.
- PHP 5.3.7+
- MySQL 5 database (please use a modern version of MySQL (5.5, 5.6, 5.7) as very old versions have a exotic bug that makes PDO injections possible.
- activated PHP's GD graphic functions (the tutorial shows how)
- enabled OpenSSL module (the tutorial shows how)
- this version uses mail sending, so you need to have an SMTP mail sending account somewhere OR you know how to get linux's sendmail etc. to run. As it's nearly impossible to send real mails with PHP's mail() function (due to anti-spam blocking of nearly every major mail provider in the world) you should really use SMTP mail sending.
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- create database login and table users via the SQL statements in the
_installationfolder.
- create database login and table users via the SQL statements in the
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config/config.php, change mySQL user and password (DB_USER and DB_PASS).
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- in
config/config.php, change COOKIE_DOMAIN to your domain name (and don't forget to put the dot in front of the domain!)
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- in
config/config.php, change COOKIE_SECRET_KEY to a random string. this will make your cookies more secure
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- change the URL part of EMAIL_PASSWORDRESET_URL and EMAIL_VERIFICATION_URL in
config/config.phpto your URL! You need to provide the URL of your project here to link to your project from within verification/password reset mails.
- change the URL part of EMAIL_PASSWORDRESET_URL and EMAIL_VERIFICATION_URL in
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- as this version uses email sending, you'll need to a) provide an SMTP account in the config OR b) install a mail server tool on your server. Using a real SMTP provider (like SMTP2GO etc.) is highly recommended. Sending emails manually via mail() is something for hardcore admins. Usually mails sent via mail() will never reach the receiver. Please also don't try weird Gmail setups, this can fail to a lot of reasons. Get professional and send mails like mail should be sent. It's extremely cheap and works.
- To enable OpenSSL, do
sudo apt-get install openssl(and restart the apache viasudo service apache2 restart) - To enable PHP's GD graphic functions, do
sudo apt-get install php5-gd(and restart the apache viasudo service apache2 restart)
A very detailed guideline on how to install the script here in this blog post.
Please use a real SMTP provider for sending mail. Using something like gmail.com or even trying to send mails via mail() will bring you into a lot of problems (unless you really really know what you are doing). Sending mails is a huge topic. But if you still want to use Gmail: Gmail is very popular as an SMTP mail sending service and would work for smaller projects, but sometimes gmail.com will not send mails anymore, usually because of:
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"SMTP Connect error": PHPMailer says "smtp login failed", but login is correct: Gmail.com thinks you are a spammer. You'll need to "unlock" your application for gmail.com by logging into your gmail account via your browser, go to http://www.google.com/accounts/DisplayUnlockCaptcha and then, within the next 10minutes, send an email via your app. Gmail will then white-list your app server. Have a look here for full explanaition: https://support.google.com/mail/answer/14257?p=client_login&rd=1
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"SMTP data quota exceeded": gmail blocks you because you have sent more than 500 mails per day (?) or because your users have provided too much fake email addresses. The only way to get around this is renting professional SMTP mail sending, prices are okay, 10.000 mails for $5.
This script comes with a handy .htaccess in the views folder that denies direct access to the files within the folder
(so that people cannot render the views directly). However, these .htaccess files only work if you have set
AllowOverride to All in your apache vhost configs. There are lots of tutorials on the web on how to do this.
Feel free to fork and send pull requests. Contributions welcome.
Licensed under MIT. You can use this script for free for any private or commercial projects.