In this tutorial, we will guide you through the process of installing Schort on FreeBSD Latest. Schort is an URL shortener that supports a simple click analytics interface. It is built using the Flask framework and requires Python 3.6 or higher.
Before you begin, ensure that you have the following prerequisites:
First, you need to clone the Schort repository to your FreeBSD Latest server. You can do this using the git command.
# git clone https://github.com/sqozz/schort.git
We recommend creating a virtual environment before installing Schort dependencies, as it ensures that the packages are isolated from the system packages. If you don't want to use virtualenv, you can directly skip to step 3.
To create a virtual environment, run the following commands:
# pip install virtualenv
# virtualenv schortenv
This will create a new virtual environment in the schortenv directory.
After creating the virtual environment (optional), you need to install the Schort dependencies. Go into the schort directory and activate the virtual environment (if you created one).
# cd schort
# source ../schortenv/bin/activate (optional)
Then, run the following command to install the dependencies:
# pip install -r requirements.txt
This will install all the dependencies listed in the requirements.txt file.
Before running the Schort application, you need to configure it. Copy the config-example.py file to config.py.
# cp config-example.py config.py
Then, open the config.py file and edit the SECRET_KEY and SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI variables as per your requirement.
SECRET_KEY = 'your-secret-key'
SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI = 'postgresql://user:password@localhost/schort'
You can also change other variables if you want.
Next, you need to migrate the database. Go into the schort directory and run the following command:
# flask db upgrade
This will create the database tables required by Schort.
Finally, you can run the Schort application using the following command:
# flask run --host=0.0.0.0 --port=5000
This will start the Schort application on port 5000, which you can access by going to http://your-server-ip:5000/.
In this tutorial, we explained how to install Schort on FreeBSD Latest. Now, you can use this URL shortener to simplify your long URLs and track the click analytics.
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