Schort is a simple and lightweight URL shortener written in Python. It can be installed and configured easily on MXLinux Latest. In this tutorial, we will guide you through the process of installing Schort on MXLinux Latest.
Before we begin, make sure that you have the following prerequisites installed on your system:
To install Schort, we need to install its dependencies first. Open a terminal and run the following commands:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install python3 python3-pip git
Next, we need to clone the Schort repository from Github. Run the following command to clone the repository:
git clone https://github.com/sqozz/schort.git
This will create a directory named schort in your current working directory.
Change directory to the schort directory and run the following command to install Schort and its dependencies:
cd schort
sudo pip3 install -r requirements.txt
Schort and its dependencies will be installed automatically.
Before we run Schort, we need to configure it. Open the config.py file with your text editor of choice:
nano config.py
In this file, you can configure Schort to your liking. By default, Schort uses SQLite3 as its database. If you want to change the database backend, you can change the SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI parameter.
You can also change the SECRET_KEY parameter to a secret key of your choice. This key is used for session encryption and should be kept secret.
Once you have configured Schort, you can run it with the following command:
python3 schort.py
This will start the Schort server on port 5000 by default. You can access Schort by visiting http://localhost:5000 in your web browser.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed Schort on MXLinux Latest. Schort is now ready to use as your own URL shortener service.
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