vise

A quick n' dirty URL shortener based on Martin Angelov's code.

Installation and configuration

The following commands assume you're using Apache httpd 2.4 on Debian/Ubuntu.

1. Install Apache httpd and PHP:

apt install libapache2-mod-php

2. Clone this repository as your web root directory:

git clone https://github.com/mentebinaria/vise.git /var/www/vise

3. Enable mod_rewrite:

a2enmod rewrite

4. Create a virtual host configuration file for your new website. For example, consider a /etc/apache2/sites-available/vise.conf file with the following content:

<VirtualHost *:80>
        ServerName domain.com:80
        ServerAlias www.menteb.in
        DocumentRoot /var/www/vise

        <Directory /var/www/vise>
                Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
                AllowOverride All
                Require all granted
        </Directory>

        ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
        CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>

5. Rename htaccess.txt file to .htaccess:

cd /var/www/vise
mv htaccess.txt .htaccess

6. Create an empty links.ini file:

cd /var/www/vise
touch links.ini

7. Edit the admin/login.php file and set an access code in the following line:

define("ACCESS_CODE", "CHANGEME");

8. Restart httpd:

systemctl restart apache2

Usage

When the app is running, navigate to /admin to start creating shortened links. To modify an existing link, just recreate it. To delete a shortened link permanently, manually remove it from links.ini (sorry).