This tutorial will guide you through the process of installing Shlink, a URL shortening platform, on OpenBSD. Shlink can be downloaded from their website at https://shlink.io.
Before installing Shlink itself, you will need to make sure that your OpenBSD system has all the necessary dependencies installed. You can do this using the following command:
sudo pkg_add php php-curl php-mbstring php-pdo php-sqlite3 sqlite
Once all of the dependencies are installed, you can download Shlink from their website at https://shlink.io.
wget https://github.com/shlinkio/shlink/releases/download/v<version>/shlink_<version>_OpenBSD_6.8.ship
After the download is complete, you can extract the Shlink package using the following command:
sudo sh shlink_<version>_OpenBSD_6.8.ship
After the package has been extracted, navigate to the directory containing the package using the cd command:
cd shlink_<version>
and run the installation script:
sudo ./install.sh
After Shlink has been installed, you will need to configure it by editing the .env file in the installation directory:
nano /var/www/shlink/.env
You will need to set the DATABASE_URL configuration variable to point to the SQLite database:
DATABASE_URL="sqlite:////var/www/shlink/data/db.sqlite"
You can also configure other settings in this file if needed.
After configuring, you can start the Shlink service using the following command:
sudo service shlink start
Once the service has started, you can access Shlink by navigating to http://localhost:4040 in your web browser.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed Shlink on OpenBSD. From here, you can configure and use this URL shortening platform to create and manage your shortened URLs.
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