Shorturl is a customized URL shortener that is designed to be easy to use and highly customizable. This short tutorial will walk you through the steps to install Shorturl on Fedora CoreOS Latest.
Before proceeding with the installation of Shorturl, make sure the following items are in place:
The first step in installing Shorturl is to install its dependencies. Open your terminal or SSH client and run the following commands:
sudo dnf install -y git golang make
This command installs the necessary packages to download and compile the Shorturl software.
With the dependencies installed, the next step is to clone the Shorturl repository from Github using the following command:
git clone https://git.mills.io/prologic/shorturl.git
This will create a directory named shorturl in your current working directory.
Change your working directory to the shorturl directory using the following command:
cd shorturl
Now, build the binary executable using the make command:
make build
The above command will build the shorturl binary in the bin/ directory.
The shorturl binary is now built and ready to use. To install and configure Shorturl, perform the following steps:
Create a directory to store your Shorturl data and configuration files:
sudo mkdir /etc/shorturl
Copy the example/shorturl.ini configuration file to /etc/shorturl:
sudo cp example/shorturl.ini /etc/shorturl/
Modify the configuration file to suit your needs.
Open the /etc/shorturl/shorturl.ini configuration file using your preferred editor:
sudo nano /etc/shorturl/shorturl.ini
Customize the configuration file based on your specific requirements. The most important configuration parameters to set are the database URL, listen address, and base URL.
Create a systemd service for Shorturl:
Create a new systemd service file using the following command:
sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/shorturl.service
Then, paste the following lines into the file:
[Unit]
Description=Shorturl service
After=syslog.target network.target
[Service]
Environment="GOMAXPROCS=2"
ExecStart=/usr/bin/shorturl -config /etc/shorturl/shorturl.ini
User=nobody
Restart=always
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
Save and exit the file.
Start the Shorturl service:
Reload the systemd configuration files using the following command:
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
Then, start the Shorturl service:
sudo systemctl start shorturl.service
Verify that the service is running:
sudo systemctl status shorturl.service
The output should show that the Shorturl service is active (running).
Now that you've installed and configured Shorturl on your Fedora CoreOS Latest server, you can begin using it to create and manage short URLs.
In this tutorial, we walked through the steps to install Shorturl on Fedora CoreOS Latest. We covered the installation of dependencies, cloning the Shorturl repository, building the binary, and installing and configuring Shorturl. We hope that this tutorial was helpful and that you were able to successfully install and configure Shorturl on your server.
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