Installing Simple-URL-Shortener on NetBSD

This tutorial will guide you through the process of installing Simple-URL-Shortener on NetBSD. Simple-URL-Shortener is an open source URL shortener that allows you to shorten long URLs into a smaller and more manageable form.

Prerequisites

Before you begin, make sure that you have the following:

• A NetBSD machine with root access
• Git installed
• PHP 7.0 or later
• PDO and SQLite PHP extensions installed

Step 1 - Clone Simple-URL-Shortener

Start by cloning the Simple-URL-Shortener repository using Git:

git clone https://github.com/azlux/Simple-URL-Shortener.git

This will create a directory named Simple-URL-Shortener in the current directory.

Step 2 - Install Dependencies

Next, you need to install the required dependencies for Simple-URL-Shortener. To do this, navigate into the directory where you cloned the repository and run the following command:

composer install

This will install all the required dependencies and create a vendor directory in the Simple-URL-Shortener directory.

Step 3 - Set Up the Configuration File

Navigate to the config directory and copy the config.sample.php file to config.php:

cd Simple-URL-Shortener
cd config
cp config.sample.php config.php

Next, open the config.php file in a text editor and configure the settings according to your needs. Make sure to set the $config['base_url'] variable to the URL of your Simple-URL-Shortener installation.

Step 4 - Create the SQLite Database

Simple-URL-Shortener uses an SQLite database to store the shortened URLs. To create the database, run the following command:

php migration.php

This will create a file named db.sqlite in the storage directory.

Step 5 - Set Permissions

Make sure that the storage directory and its contents are writable by the web server. To do this, run the following commands:

chmod -R 777 storage
chown -R www:www storage

This will set the permissions to allow the web server to create and modify files in the storage directory.

Step 6 - Test

Finally, start the PHP built-in web server and test your Simple-URL-Shortener installation:

php -S localhost:8000

Now, open your web browser and go to http://localhost:8000. You should see the Simple-URL-Shortener homepage.

That's it! You have successfully installed Simple-URL-Shortener on NetBSD.

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