In this tutorial, we will be walking you through the steps to install Simply Shorten, a URL shortening service, on Debian Latest.
Before we begin with the installation process, make sure your Debian system is up-to-date and has the following prerequisites installed:
To get started with the installation, we need to clone Simply Shorten from GitLab by running the following command:
git clone https://gitlab.com/draganczukp/simply-shorten.git
This will create a local copy of the Simply Shorten repository on your machine.
Next, we need to install the required dependencies for Simply Shorten to run. To do this, navigate to the cloned directory and run the following command:
cd simply-shorten
npm install
This will install all the required dependencies for Simply Shorten to function properly.
Before running Simply Shorten, we need to configure it with our desired settings. To do that, open the config.js file located in the root directory of the cloned repository:
nano config.js
Here you can customize the settings for Simply Shorten according to your needs. After making the changes, save and close the file.
Now that we have cloned the Simply Shorten repository, installed the dependencies, and configured the settings, we can finally run it. To start Simply Shorten, run the following command:
npm start
This will start the Simply Shorten service, and you should see something like the following:
Server started on port 3000
Great! Simply Shorten is now up and running. You can test it out by visiting http://localhost:3000 in your browser.
In this tutorial, we walked through the steps to install Simply Shorten on Debian Latest. Now you should be able to use Simply Shorten as a URL shortening service. If you encounter any issues, please refer to the official documentation available on GitLab.
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