Liteshort is an open-source URL shortening tool, which provides a minimalistic interface for shortening URLs. In this tutorial, we will learn how to install Liteshort on NixOS Latest by following a simple step-by-step process.
Before we begin, make sure you have the following prerequisites:
Liteshort is hosted on Git, so the first step is to install Git on your system. You can install Git on NixOS Latest by running the following command in the terminal:
sudo nix-env -iA nixos.git
After installing Git, you need to clone the Liteshort repository from liteshort">https://git.ikl.sh/132ikl/liteshort. To do this, you can run the following command in your terminal:
git clone https://git.ikl.sh/132ikl/liteshort
Liteshort has some dependencies that need to be installed before it can function properly. To install these dependencies, run the following command in your terminal:
sudo nix-env -iA nixos.ocaml ocamlPackages.hmap \
ocamlPackages.opium ocamlPackages.lwt ocamlPackages.crypto-cryptokit
Now, go to the directory where you cloned Liteshort:
cd liteshort
Next, run the make command to build the Liteshort executable:
make
Once the build process is complete, you can run Liteshort by executing the following command:
./liteshort
This command will start the Liteshort server, and you can access it by visiting http://127.0.0.1:3000 in your web browser.
In this tutorial, you learned how to install Liteshort on NixOS Latest. We started by installing Git, then we cloned the Liteshort repository, installed dependencies, built Liteshort, and finally, started the Liteshort server. With these steps, you should now be able to use Liteshort to shorten URLs to make it easier to share them with others.
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